Lisp Chat

An experimental chat irc-like written in Lisp.

lisp-chat-screenshot

Installation

You need in your system:

SBCL
Quicklisp

And make sure that ~/.sbclrc has a entry calling to the quicklisp setup.

(load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")

Tip for Quicklisp

Clone the attached repository of Quicklisp and execute the setup.lisp with sbcl --script setup.lisp

Usage

Load the server

$ sbcl --load server.lisp --eval "(lisp-chat-server:main)"

Get a client

$ sbcl --load client.lisp --eval "(lisp-chat-client:main)"

For Non-lispers

If you wish test this and don’t have the Lisp environment with SBCL and Quicklisp, you can try the client version written in Python using only the stdlib.

$ python client.py

lisp-chat