Tag Archives: Common-lisp

SBCL 1.1.4

Posted on 2013-02-18 by jcs

Somehow I missed the fact that SBCL 1.1.4 was released at the end of January. I just compiled and installed it and as usual everything is fine. The new release is mainly bug fixes and an optimization to the LOOP … Continue reading →

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Replace Emacs?

Posted on 2013-02-13 by jcs

Lord I get tired of reading this sort of thing. The tl;dr is that: N00bs don’t like Emacs because it’s not like Notepad and thus has a steep learning curve. Most Lispers use Emacs. Because of 1. and 2. n00bs … Continue reading →

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Some Common Lisp Resources

Posted on 2013-02-10 by jcs

Here’s a collection of some useful Common Lisp resources that I’ve come across recently. Getting started with Common Lisp A useful introduction to the basics of using Common Lisp for the n00b. 9 of the Best Free Lisp Books A … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.3

Posted on 2013-01-05 by jcs

The fine folks at SBCL.org have released version 1.1.3 of their Common Lisp system. One of the contributed packages (SB-SPROF) failed a test on my MacBook Pro but worked fine on my iMac. It looks like a VM problem when … Continue reading →

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Lispdoc

Posted on 2012-12-25 by jcs

The other day I wrote about discovering Steve Purcell’s emacs.d repository on GitHub. Today, I want to talk about another wonderful thing I discovered there: Lispdoc. Bill Moorier’s Lispdoc is a documentation search engine for Common Lisp that searches The … Continue reading →

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Silly Arguments

Posted on 2012-12-22 by jcs

It’s time, again, for me to be grumpy and start waving my cane at those damn kids playing on my lawn. Some of you, ever solicitous of my mental health and well being have advised me not to care what … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.2 Is Released

Posted on 2012-12-02 by jcs

Christophe Rhodes is announcing that he has released Steel Banks Common Lisp 1.1.2. You can get the release at the SBCL Download Page. As always, installation is simple. I did my usual dance of sh make.sh cd test sh run-tests.sh … Continue reading →

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Mawking AWK with Lisp

Posted on 2012-11-29 by jcs

Back in 2009, Brendan O’Connor over at AI and Social Science posted an article entitled Don’t MAWK AWK—the fastest and most elegant big data munging language! He recently posted an update that caused the original article to pop up on … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp Naming Conventions

Posted on 2012-11-11 by jcs

Over at the newly redesigned Common Lisp Wiki, CLiki, they have an excellent page on Common Lisp naming conventions. Most people that have done a non-trivial amount of Lisp programming will be at least dimly aware of many of these … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.1 Is Out

Posted on 2012-11-03 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.1.1 is out. As usual, compilation and installation were a snap. Out of irrational paranoia I always run the verification tests after I compile. Of course, everything was fine: all the tests except those expected to … Continue reading →

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