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I find that NH is a great jumping off point for adventures I didn't even know I wanted to take. For instance, in this story I learned that some people can down-vote, and a lot of work is done in the background to keep goofballs like me from derailing things.

I too would like to thank the moderators.

Further, and more interestingly to me, I learn that HN is written in a LISP variant called ARC... I've never understood LISP, and especially never thought that anything useful could be built with it... at least at the subconscious level, yet I know AutoCad and Emacs are built around it. I have similar feelings about Prolog, which I tried once and just didn't grok.

Is there an IDE for lisp?

>>mikewa+(OP)
There are several IDEs for specific Lisps, like Dr Racket or the Lispworks implementation of Common Lisp. There's also Emacs, which is kind of like a Lisp-based IDE, and Slime is a really good Common Lisp plugin for it.

>>blast+Vs
I tried Portacle, and my experience was utter frustration. Once you go astray, there's no way to know what is going on. It threw me into so sort of debugger, with no obvious way out.

Lispworks looks like exactly what I want, except it seems to be in the Delphi business model, thus I can't afford it.

DrRacket looks better... but it doesn't seem to be lisp?

I thank you for the lifeline. If only Borland had made TurboLisp back in the day.