Lisp on Debian

Install common lisp and rlwrap ↓

sudo apt install sbcl rlwrap

rlwrap runs the specified command, intercepting user input in order to provide readline’s line editing.

Run lisp repl ↓

rlwrap sbcl

Test ↓

Add 3 numbers

(+ 1 2 3)
; should return 6

Hello world (~% stands for newline)

(format t "hello world~%")

Hello world as a function

(defun hello-world () (format t "hello world~%"))
(hello-world)

Hello world as a selfpropeled script with shebang that works on Debian

#!/usr/bin/sbcl --script
(format t "hello world~%")

Books ↓

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/

Practical Common Lisp published by Apress These pages now contain the final text as it appears in the book.

IDE ↓

Can’t figure out how to install/setup ‘alive’ for vscode, don’t want to deal with emacs. Slimv does something interesting for vim: https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html#get-started-with-slimv-and-sbcl
In zellij or tmux run

sbcl --load ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/slimv/slime/start-swank.lisp

Open vim test.lisp or something, type ,c for start and ,e for eval. ctrl+ww to switch to repl, i to edit it.