lisp

Two small wrapper script to make dealing with SBCL more intuitive for newcomers to LISP.

Interactive use

lispi
(+ 1 2)

Then press ctrl-d to exit.

Running a file

Create hello.cl with this content:

(defun main ()
    (write-line "Hello, World!"))

Run the main function in hello.cl with:

lisp hello.cl

The function to run can also be specified explicitly:

lisp hello.cl main

Usage

• For the lisp command, the first argument is the filename, the second (optional) argument is the name of the function to evaluate. main is the default function name.
• For the lispi command, the first (optional) argument is the name of a file to load.

Dependencies

• SBCL, with /usr/bin/sbcl available.
• A POSIX shell, with /bin/sh available (should come by default with all distros).

Installation

Arch Linux

Just install the lisp package from AUR.

From source

With the correct permissions:

PREFIX=/usr make install

General information

• Version: 1.2.0
• License: GPL2
• Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <[email protected]>