Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:25:16 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <110nf0q$3vra6$3@dont-email.me> <87y0gg62cx.fsf@nightsong.com> <110rfqf$142ot$1@dont-email.me> <111ne5o$vsm3$3@dont-email.me> <111pbk6$36pi7$1@dont-email.me> <111sb7u$3ua8h$7@dont-email.me> <8fj54lpvg7v6mhi9r9u39tpojbjage8br4@4ax.com> <87mrwdyt0t.fsf@nightsong.com> <1127cho$34rpg$3@dont-email.me> <112o4aa$cpek$2@dont-email.me> <87jyqdtumj.fsf@gmail.com> <87bjbn2nhs.fsf@safunu.org> <877bm4zgsp.fsf@safunu.org> <87h5l2ytkv.fsf@safunu.org> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:25:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87bjb9a1oj.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ufrGOB5943FE4T2uE3bLy6T26M4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-I7deSmL0mt3UGYEfE1YBQGht/rjWFLHCh5yFGIhtTSpLz5PvO9ONGNsp7+JTAxGBmntXYVCnYS1NbSd!OBqeFqWb6OyeApoVCFsipWrMscr6BSyfJKsgokhr5Jy8xJ8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61374 Anton Antimo writes: > And by the way some of my complains can also be exactly applied to > Common Lisp. For instance, I think Common Lisp doesn't have the > semantics of POSIX's read(2). I suppose there are libraries out there > that might go lower level (than Common Lisp's) and then give you an > abstraction that mimics read(2), but that's beside the point. In common lisp your can link to C; like visual basic 6. SBCL has sb-posix:write already built in. it is the POSIX one, not the cl:write.