12:17:17drlAlfr_, pve, |3b| , Xach, I went through all your advice again step by step. Alexandria now loads, and my program compiles. Thank you! Your help is very much appreciated.
15:08:39beachWhat sources of Lisp-related information are you using, besides this channel?
15:12:58xzax_[m]This for now https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
15:14:04beachI see. That book is good if you have little or no experience with other languages. For those with experience, we often recommend PCL.
15:14:11beachminion: Please tell xzax_[m] about PCL.
15:14:11minionxzax_[m]: look at PCL: pcl-book: "Practical Common Lisp", an introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, available at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and in dead-tree form from Apress (as of 11 April 2005).
15:15:46beachxzax_[m]: And do you have your environment set up so that you can work correctly?
15:23:34beachxzax_[m]: Oh, I almost forgot: welcome to #lisp. And for truly elementary questions, there is also #clschool. This channel is not really meant for newbie questions, but such questions are tolerated. If they get too elementary, you may get redirected to #clschool, depending on how busy this channel is.
15:26:04xzax_[m]beach: Thank you. I understand ill join clschool in addition