Are people using "Clisp" to refer to Common Lisp these days?  I always 
spell the whole thing out, or use "CL" when context makes it sufficiently 
clear.  I think of "CLISP" as the name for one particular CL implementation.

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:43:41 AM UTC-5, Ashton Kemerling wrote:
>
> Just remember that Clisp 
>
> 1) not entirely immutable
> 2) not a hosted language
>
> I worked in CL professionally for a year (SBCL in particular) and while 
> clojure is closer to SBCL than it is to python, it is a different beast. CL 
> is a more complicated language, with a long past and odd specs containing 
> holdovers from decades gone by, and CL has pretty much absorbed every 
> paradigm that has come out since it's inception. So I would recommend 
> staying away from sections covering the Common Lisp object system (clos) or 
> the meta object protocol (mop), as they have no real parallels in clojure. 
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Cecil Westerhof <[email protected] 
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>>  There are a lot of good (or so I am told) CLISP books. For example: 
>> “Paradigms Of Artificial Intelligence Programming Case Studies In Common 
>> Lisp”.
>>
>> Would they be useful for learning Clojure, or is the difference to big?
>>  I should at least have http://clojure.org/lisps handy. ;-)
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