Personaly i found abcl a bad experience.
Thoughts on ecl & clisp ?

sbcl works nice & fine. But i’t’s the only lisp implementation i know.
There are good books on racket-scheme & chez-cheme.
The only book i know for lisp is, “Common lisp , a gentle introduction to symbolic computing”.

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    1 year ago

    Personaly i found abcl a bad experience. ABCL maintainer here: Sorry to hear that you didn’t like using ABCL. I would be interested in hearing about your misery to try to improve things for others.

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          1 year ago

          On my Mac with ABCL 1.9.2 I can load it via Quicklisp and get for example this error:

          ; Caught COMPILE-FAILED-WARNING:
          
          ;   Lisp compilation failed while compiling
              #
          
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          Program below works fine with sbcl & ccl.
          For abcl i get alot of warnings, not errors,

          
          (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
          (declaim (optimize (speed 3) (safety 3)))
          
          (ql:quickload "serapeum")
          
          (defpackage alain
            (:use :cl :serapeum)
            (:export main));defpackage
          
          (in-package :alain)
          
          (declaim (type (integer) *anint*))
          (defparameter *anint* 2)
          
          (-> addtwo ( integer ) integer )
          (defun addtwo (x)
            ( + *anint* x ))
          
          (defun main ()
          	(print (addtwo 3)));main
          
          (in-package :cl)
          (defun main ()
            (alain::main))
          (main)
          
          

          ; Compilation unit finished ; Caught 22 WARNING conditions ; Caught 10 STYLE-WARNING conditions

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        1 year ago

        I know in general there are thing in Serapeum that don’t work properly in ABCL, but I have gotten gotten patches from ABCL users so to be fair there are definitely people using it there.