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tive are catenative languages and such, which have never been mainstream. There are assembly languages which go line by line. Imperative languages with statements and expressions tend to have small expressions where evaluation is followed inside-out; the rest of the control flow is just top down, with some forward and backward skips. Lisp has all of the above in it. Lisp can be assembly language. For instance, in this source file from Clozure Common Lisp: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/blob/master/level-0/ARM/arm-h... (defarmlapfunction fast-mod-3 ((number arg_x) (divisor arg_y) (recip arg_z)) (mov imm0 (:lsr number (:$ arm::fixnumshift))) (smull imm2 imm1 imm0 recip) (mul imm0 imm1 divisor) (sub number number imm0) (sub number number divisor) (mov imm0 (:asr number (:$ (1- arm::nbits-in-word)))) (and divisor divisor imm0) (add arg_z number divisor) (bx lr)) It's just ARM code, ending in a "bx lr" and everything. The Lisp can be anything requires a jump in intellectual maturity and mental flexibility. You have to approach everything you might see in an unfamiliar Lisp project with an open mind, prepared for anything. Now that's true in any large system --- but not in a way where it is rolled into one unifying syntax. If a non-Lisp project has ARM assembly in it, it might just be conventional syntax. So you are hit on the head with a hammer: "this is obviously not the Foo language; it looks totally different". Suppose you are some newbie and don't know what ARM assembly language is; you still know that the files are something special and different. If you're a newbie not knowing what ARM assembly is and see that in Lisp code, you just think that it's just more indecipherable Lisp weirdness. You just barely learned car and cdr and now you have (bx lr) and smull. Man, Lisp is weird!

wasn't clear ahead of time which ones. I didn't have MinGW, MSYS2 or Cygwin setup so instead I rooted around until I found SDL2.dll and libtiff.dll. Unfortunately, I couldn't find libffi.dll so had to build it. I installed MSYS2 but failed. Cygwin same thing. This is my fault as I never learned how to do this. I installed Steel Bank Common Lisp without problem hoping it might have what Sketch needs but it doesn't I gave up on Windows proper and installed WSL2 because I'm on a developers preview of Windows 11 and had read that it does graphics now. I installed Ubuntu 20 into it, but couldn't get it to work. I had the same problem building SDL. I switched to my VMWare installation of Ubuntu 20 and failed there too, but I suspected there might be a conflict, so I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20 in a new virtual machine. It worked! Very nice. I can do graphics with Common Lisp. I prefer not using VMWare so I am currently learning the difference between MSYS2, MinGW, Cygwin, and GnuMake32. I expect to have a Windows version working by the end of the day. I wondering if I should do a Docker image or maybe there is something better now? Last time I used Docker it seemed more difficult than it need to be. // These are the steps I took to make it work on Ubuntu. I don't use Linux that often so I'm sure there is a better way like combining some of these commands // Install dev tools sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt install build-essential -y sudo apt-get install -y m4 sudo apt-get install -y git sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-image-dev sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-ttf-dev sudo apt-get install -y curl // install Clozure git clone https://github.com/Clozure/ccl.git ccl-dev curl -L -O https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/download/v1.12.1/linu xx86.tar.gz cd ccl-dev tar xf ../linuxx86.tar.gz sudo cp ./scripts/ccl64 /usr/local/bin cd /usr/local/bin sudo chmod +rwx ccl64 sudo chown mike ccl64 sudo chgrp mike ccl64 sudo mv ccl64 ccl code . // start vscode put path to home ccl in var CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=/home/mike/ccl-dev cd ~/ccl-dev ccl to start REPL (rebuild-ccl :full t) (quit) // install quicklisp into ccl-dev curl -O https://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp ccl --load quicklisp.lisp (quicklisp-quickstart:install) (ql:add-to-init-file) (quit) // start sketch cd to ccl-dev directory type 'ccl' to start Clozure REPL (load "quicklisp.lisp") (ql:quickload :sketch) (ql:quickload :sketch-examples) (make-instance 'sketch-examples:hello-world) (make-instance 'sketch-examples:sinewave) (make-instance 'sketch-examples:brownian) (make-instance 'sketch-examples:life)