Tag Archives: Common-lisp

An Interview with François-René (Faré) Rideau

Vsevolod Dyomkin over at Lisp, the Universe and Everything has posted another in his series of interviews with Lisp luminaries. This time it’s with François-René (Faré) Rideau one of the key developers at ITA and an author of the Google … Continue reading

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The Google Common Lisp Style Guide

Google has made their Common Lisp Style Guide—presumably from ITA—available to the public. As with any style guide, almost everyone will find something to disagree with but by and large it appears to be a very reasonable compendium of best … Continue reading

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Reader Macros

J.V. Toups over at Dorophone has a nice, short introduction to Common Lisp reader macros. The conventional wisdom is that it’s best to avoid reader macros when you can and the use cases that Toups examines probably fall into that … Continue reading

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More Common Lisp Tweets

Jean-Philippe Paradis has announced a “massive reorganization” of his Common Lisp tweets collection. He’s also added 200 about 70 new tweets to the collection for a total of almost 200. In the past, I’ve recommended going to his site for … Continue reading

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SBCL 1.1.0

SBCL 1.1.0 has been released and is available from the SBCL Download page. Although they have brought the OS X binary up to date, I chose to compile from source. The compilation ran without difficulty and as far as I … Continue reading

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Getting Started with Common Lisp on OS X

I was reading Nikodemus Siivola’s excellent Common Lisp FAQ and came across a reference to Jonathan Fischer’s guide to getting started with Common Lisp on OS X. If you’re an Machead who’s wanting to get started with CL, these instructions … Continue reading

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Common Lisp Type Hierarchy

Greg Pfeil over at Techomatic has a nice chart of the Common Lisp Type Hierarchy. Technically, there’s no new information here, of course, but it is nice to have all the information in any easy to read diagram. If you’re … Continue reading

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If you’re a Lisper here’s a surprising bit of Common Lisp arcana from Xach’s Common Lisp Tips. Did I mention that you really should subscribe?

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A Simple Common Lisp REPL

I love this simple Common Lisp REPL by Stas Boukarev over at Zach Beane’s Common Lisp Tips. In just 5 lines of code you get a complete REPL that even handles *, **, and ***. In the comments, Brit Butler … Continue reading

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Common Lisp Tip Tweets Redux

I’ve mentioned Jean-Philippe Paradis’ Common Lisp Tip Tweets before. He’s reorganized the site a bit and categorized the tweets so that it’s easier to find what you’re looking for. If you don’t follow him on Twitter, it’s worth stopping by … Continue reading

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