Monthly Archives: April 2016

SBCL 1.3.4

Posted on 2016-04-03 by jcs

I just installed the latest version of the wonderful Steel Bank Common Lisp system. Version 1.3.4 is mostly a bug fix but there are a couple of enhancements and an optimization. You can read the details on the NEWS page. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Some Calc Features

Posted on 2016-04-02 by jcs

I haven’t written about Emacs Calc for a while but I find myself using it all the time. It’s one of the lesser known secrets of Emacs and that’s too bad. You can use it as a quick calculator in … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | 3 Comments

ob-hy.el

Posted on 2016-04-02 by jcs

Just a quickie to report that John Kitchin is on a tear with Hy. Today he’s posting about his development of ob-hy.el to further integrate Hy into Org mode. It’s pretty nice. One day in and he can already execute … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Kitchin: Day Two with Hy

Posted on 2016-04-01 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about John Kitchin’s post on Hy, a Lisp dialect that essentially compiles to Python allowing you to write in Lisp while still having access to the Python RTL. Kitchin has published a new post describing his second … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment