Re: [Sbcl-help] Need "getting started" recommendations

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tc...@fr...> writes:

> "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tc...@fr...> writes:
>
>> Jeffrey Berger <je...@cl...> writes:
>>
>> > I've seen recommendations that running a shell in emacs is the better
>> > way to go than slime, say.
>>
>> I call that bullshit.
>
> My choice may be biased, Jeffrey, as I've been hacking on Slime in my
> spare time, but Slime provides among other things:
>
> [snippety]

Tobias is right that Slime provides many, many useful and convenient
things, and I personally use it for most of my Lisp programming.  The
convenience and power does come with a cost, though: the coupling
between the Emacs side and the CL side of Slime is a little bit
fragile, and it is possible to get into a situation where the session
is essentially corrupted.  This doesn't necessarily happen often, nor
is it necessarily a disaster, but this is one thing that doesn't tend
to happen when running sbcl in a shell under emacs, and that might be
why you have come across that recommendation, from someone who
tolerates very little brittleness in their tools.

Best,

Christophe