Setting up a working Common Lisp environment for the aspiring Lisp newbie

Question

I\'ve been a UNIX sysadmin for a long time, and aside from automating tasks with shell scripting, some light PHP work, and a few simple C programs, I\'ve never done much in the

Answer 1

I can say that Emacs is a good environment for writing Lisp, since I used it in college to that end. The *scratch* buffer provides a good place for test code. The compiler docs should say how to call them, so you can write out your files to disk and then run them in a shell window, or use one of Emacs' modes to integrate the edit-compile-and-run. (Sorry I'm not more specific, it's been 15 years.)