Ala'a Mohammad wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:45:29PM +0400: > Hi, > > I'm continually learning Common-lisp and trying to find the best style > that suites me better. I've tried 'an imager' style (cooking a an > image with all required libraries loaded when required), and 'a filer' > style (loading files or systems each time I fire-up a CL > implementation). I'm interested to hear what others use CL. How do > they manage day to day work? how do their preferred style mesh into > their production pipeline (coding, debugging, deployment and > maintenance)? and what makes them prefer one way over another or the > mix if applicable?
I'm an imager. Even my dotfiles are "converted" into an image. When I log into a new machine I run a script to set up my dotfiles and the Lisp part of it loads my personal libraries, changes settings the way I like and then saves an image. The major reason is that it's much faster to load the result. I also make it shut up for good so that starting this image doesn't have any output except a (customized) prompt. It also safeguards you against somebody messing with the OS-installed Lisp. Martin -- Martin Cracauer, Programmer, ITA Software Inc, 617-714-2130 _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro