What do i have to install for Lisp and Prolog programming?

[mahy]

Hi there,

i'm taking a course involving functional and logical programming this semester, and naturally i'd like to do my work in Ubuntu. What are the best compilers/interpreters for these languages? Does Vim support syntax highlighting for these languages? I'd welcome any advice.

[Alasdair]

For Lisp I reccomend SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp), combined with an Editor such as Emacs+SLIME (superior lisp interaction mode for Emacs). I like Vim, but for Lisp in particular Emacs is definately superior. Whatever editor you chose though, It should at least have the ability to match parens, as well as automatically indent lisp code. Without those features programming Lisp can be very fustrating.

I don't know much about Prolog, and every thing I've just said about Lisp is based on the assumption that when you say Lisp, you mean Common Lisp rather than Scheme.

[Blario]

Hi there,

i'm taking a course involving functional and logical programming this semester, and naturally i'd like to do my work in Ubuntu. What are the best compilers/interpreters for these languages? Does Vim support syntax highlighting for these languages? I'd welcome any advice.

YOOO, we really should talking. I'm basically in the same course this semester. Hit me up for AIM information or whatever... we've covered scheme so far and I'm working on some prolog assignments right now.

For scheme, the MIT variate of LISP that we covered, we used DrScheme, whose linux version was awesome. I'm currently looking for prolog software.