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## Common Lisp VS Racket - testimonies.md

      
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                Common Lisp VS Racket. Feedback from (common) lispers.
              
          
    Developer experience, libraries, performance… (2021/11)

I'll preface this with three things. 1. I prefer schemes over Common Lisps, and I prefer Racket of the Schemes. 2. There is more to it than the points I raise here. 3. I assume you have no previous experience with Lisp, and don't have a preference for Schemes over Common Lisp. With all that out of the way... I would say Common Lisp/SBCL. Let me explain

SBCL Is by far the most common of the CL implementations in 2021. It will be the easiest to find help for, easiest to find videos about, and many major open source CL projects are written using SBCL
Download a binary directly from the website http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html (even for M1 macs) to get up and running (easy to get started)
Great video for setting up Emacs + Slime + Quick Lisp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI

Now as to why Common Lisp over Scheme

  
## Effective_Engineer.md

      
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    FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes


By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?


## web-servers.md

      
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                Big list of http static server one-liners
              
          
    Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
Discussion on reddit.
Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

  
## gem_env.sh
# Two ENV variables control the 'gem' command:
#
#   GEM_HOME: the single path to a gem dir where gems are installed
#   GEM_PATH: a standard PATH to gem dirs where gems are found
#
# A gem directory is a directory that holds gems.  The 'gem' command will lay
# out and utilize the following structure:
#
#   bin               # installed bin scripts
#   cache             # .gem files  ex: cache/gem_name.gem
	# Two ENV variables control the 'gem' command:
	#
	# GEM_HOME: the single path to a gem dir where gems are installed
	# GEM_PATH: a standard PATH to gem dirs where gems are found
	#
	# A gem directory is a directory that holds gems. The 'gem' command will lay
	# out and utilize the following structure:
	#
	# bin # installed bin scripts
	# cache # .gem files ex: cache/gem_name.gem