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The Common Lisp Cookbook
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Primer (Getting started): Fix accessibility issue once and for all! #270

Open Ambrevar opened 5 years ago

Ambrevar commented 5 years ago

I believe one of the biggest problem for newcomers is to know where to get started. The "Getting started" page mentions Quicklisp, Roswell, different compilers... It's overwhelming. And it doesn't stop there: then we need to read the Editors chapter, its subchapters (!), etc.

Anyone even with good computing knowledge will spend several hours wrapping their head around all this stuff, just to be able to write some code.

I suggest to rework this approach a little bit:

What do you think?

Edit: Typos.

Ambrevar commented 5 years ago

Instead of calling sbcl --script, we could also put #!sbcl --script in the shabang and make the file executable. I guess both are equally simple, but maybe the latter is easier to "carry around".

pnathan commented 4 years ago

Haven't really caught up to date with the latest "easy way to lisp", I'm using a weird 2006-era mental model. :)

Programming Cookbooks are traditionally more snippets than an introduction. That said, tradition doesn't need to hold us back.

I'm happy to accept a "Lisp 101" chapter.

Thoughts, @LispCookbook/team ?

chuchana commented 4 years ago

Sound like a good idea. How about suggesting Portacle for getting started? One could add instructions on how to activate CUA-Mode.

Ambrevar commented 4 years ago

Sounds good!