Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

[Alister]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:14:01 -0700, bolega wrote:

> Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real
> world programming ?
> 
> http://wiki.alu.org/Implementation
> 
> Kindly pick one from commercial and one from open-source .
> 
> The criteria is :
> 
> libraries, gui interface and builder, libraries for TCP, and evolving
> needs.
> 
> Please compare LISP and its virtues with other languages such as
> javascript, python etc.
> 
> I put javascript in the context that it is very similar in its
> architecture (homoiconic ie same representation for data-structures and
> operations, ie hierarchical, which means nested-lists <=> n-ary tree <=>
> binary tree <=> linked-list <=> dictionary <=> task-subtask, and
> implicitly based on what C calls pointers, and at machine level the
> indirect addressing of memory) to lisp family.
> 
> I put python in the context that it has the most extensive libraries and
> shares the build-fix virtue of lisp highlighted by Paul Graham in his
> books. Python is touted for its rapid prototyping of guis. It syntax
> enforces stable format which guards against programmer malice or
> sloppiness - so that there is a certain level of legacy code
> readability.
> 
> Both have eval but not clear what is the implementation efficiency to
> justify the habit of excessively using it.
> 
> Certainly, lisp/scheme are excellent for learning the concepts of
> programming languages due to its multi-paradigm nature and readily
> available code of the elementary interpreter.
> 
> Is there an IDE for these lispish-scheming languages ? Is there quality
> implementation for Eclipse ? Emacs pre-supposes some knowledge of these
> so that newbie can get stuck. Also, emacs help is not very good.
> 
> Is there a project whereby the internal help of emacs (analogous to its
> man pages) are being continuously being updated AND shared ? I have
> never seen updates to the help. Perhaps, the commercial people are doing
> it, even from the posts of the newsgroups, but the public distros or
> these newsgroups have NEVER made such an announcement.
> 
> Explanations integrated into the help are more important than the books
> - its like the wikipedia incorporated into emacs.
> 
> Is there support for the color highlighting of the code by hovering as
> on this page ?
> 
> http://community.schemewiki.org/?lexical-scope
> 
> Which book/paper has the briefest minimal example of gui design along
> XML nested/hiearchical elements with event-listeners for lisp/scheme ?
> 
> Thanks

if we do all of the above will we also receive the grade & qualification?
what exam is it for anyway?



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