Tag Archives: Lisp

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Pavel Penev has updated and republished his excellent post Learning Lisp The Bump Free Way. It’s a nice introduction to the problems that Lisp n00bs face and how to overcome them. If you know anyone struggling with learning Lisp, this … Continue reading

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A Summary of New Libraries in April’s Quicklisp

Ben Hyde has produced a summary of the new libraries in April’s Quicklisp distribution. Each item has a link to the library’s README so it’s easy to get a more detailed look at libraries that interest you. A very nice … Continue reading

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SBCL 1.1.7 Released

The folks at Steel Banks Common Lisp have released SBCL 1.1.7. As usual the build, test, and installation went without mishap. This month’s release is mainly bug fixes but also includes an enhancement to TRACE so that PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued … Continue reading

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Vi(m) and Lisp

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I was a Vi(m) user for a long time. I switched to Emacs when I started doing most of my programming in Lisp and Scheme. My main reason … Continue reading

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SBCL 1.1.6 Released

The latest version of SBCL has been released. As usual, compilation and installation went without problem. You can read the News file for a complete list of changes but the TL;DR is Speed up of the compiler for certain constructs … Continue reading

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A Talk on Lisp Machines

Over at LoperOS they’ve put up a video of a talk that Kalman Reti gave last year at the Boston Lisp Meeting. The talk is about the Symbolics Lisp Machines and includes a demo of the original software running in … Continue reading

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More on Quickdocs

Recently I mentioned the Quicklisp indexing site Quickdocs. Since then, Fukamachi has continued to improve the site. He’s added categories so that you can browse the list of all libraries concerned with, say, Graphics. That gives you an idea of … Continue reading

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SBCL 1.1.5 Is Out

I know I just wrote about SBCL 1.1.4 but that was because I somehow missed its release notice. This month I’m doing better and writing about SBCL 1.1.5 closer to when it was actually released. As usual, compilation and installation … Continue reading

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Quickdocs

Eitarow Fukamachi has put up an interesting service called Quickdocs. It’s a search engine for the Quicklisp repository. There’s no directions or explanation of exactly what a search provides so it’s a bit of an adventure game but appears to … Continue reading

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The Vivid Schemer

Recursion always seems to cause beginning CS students trouble. One of the very best resources for learning and becoming comfortable with it is The Little Schemer. Although the exercises are in Scheme, they apply equally well to Common Lisp or … Continue reading

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