First day

I am beginning to learn lisp and I thought I would document the whole process of learning in a blog. The environment that I plan to learn to learn lisp is the following. There is no particular reason for choosing any of these tools.

• Ubuntu 14 - quite comfortable with the OS.
• SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) - Goal is to learn this.
• Emacs - Have never used it before. I am a Vim fan.
• Slime - An IDE to make things easier.

Installation steps:

1. C-M-t to open terminal
   sudo apt-get install emacs24
sudo apt-get install sbcl
sudo apt-get install slime
curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
2. quicklisp installation steps here.
3. Run emacs
4. C-x C-f test.lisp
5. C-x 3
6. M-x slime
7. In slime window type
1. (+ 1 2)↵
2. Check that result is 3
8. In other window type
   (defun test(x y)
    (+ x y))
9. C-c C-c
10. Slime window
1. (test 3 4)↵
2. Check that output is 7.