Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 27 Mar 2026 04:00:33 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10q03vf$1o2ev$1@dont-email.me> <10q0c18$1qua9$1@dont-email.me> <10q0f40$1s10c$1@dont-email.me> <10q1etr$9gh8$1@artemis.inf.ed.ac.uk> <10q2o3v$nqm7$1@news1.tnib.de> <10q3kgr$2val0$1@dont-email.me> <1774547182-12588@newsgrouper.org> <87a4vuw71u.fsf@parhasard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net P824Tgm8kSwbJPDf8YyPFQk6icbeEy22C80JfjUY1BbpRB1us1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uck8uXYQ4wHsU51b3SKjnG9yJ8o= sha256:1Q71Vb3q0ycsoE5ThSGL9ooBR13EiI4/Ab6b7KY+4mQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84157 alt.usage.english:1141057 On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:38:05 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > If the Common Lisp ecosystem met my needs I would use SBCL for almost > everything, but I’m stuck with C and Emacs Lisp and nudging everything > in the latter more to Common Lisp. My only exposure to a Lisp adjacent language was Scheme and that was when I worked my way through 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' one winter. The concepts were interesting but my impression was 'Why in the name for the Flying Spaghetti Monster would anyone ever do it that way?'