15:34:37scymtym_could sbcl users who are annoyed with ironclad compile times try compiling ironclad with https://github.com/scymtym/sbcl/tree/pack-iterative-hopefully-final and report whether/how much times improve? thanks in advance
15:41:53trafaret1I just newbie in programming and I have question. I find emacs very suitable for programming and I see how powerfull it might be. But need I learn elisp to handle with it properly?
15:43:58jackdanieltrafaret1: you don't need to learn elisp
15:44:04jackdanielfor more information join #emacs
15:44:08jackdanielthis channel is about Common Lisp
15:44:22jackdanielI use emacs for years and I know elisp only briefly (and didn't know it at all at first)
15:45:18jackdanielI'm sure I've mentioned it at some point of time :)
15:48:39trafaret1what is the diffrence between lisp and mathematica languages. I just know it is functional programming languages. Are they interchangable?
15:49:17trafaret1and that would be perspective to learn?
15:50:34Faretrafaret1, many differences, and some similarities
15:50:36jackdanielmathematics are more declarative than functional. Common Lisp is multi-paradigm programming language and the most dominant approach atm is OOP
15:51:01jackdanielminion: tell trafaret1 about gentle
15:51:01miniontrafaret1: please look at gentle: "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" is a smoother introduction to lisp programming. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
15:51:20Faremathematica is based on some generalized rewrite logic, whereas Common Lisp is based on the more narrowly defined rewrites of the lambda calculus