Tag Archives: Common-lisp

A Silly But Beautiful Quicksort

Steven Goss over at the zero bit stream has another great Common Lisp post. His idea is to compare a minimal Haskell Quicksort routine to the same function written in Common Lisp. A case can be made that the result … Continue reading

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Concurrency with ChanL

Stephen Goss over at the zero bit stream has a great post on concurrency in Common Lisp using ChanL. ChanL is a Common Lisp library that implements the Newsqueak concurrency paradigm. Newsqueak was developed by Rob Pike and is described … Continue reading

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Some Common Lisp Tip Tweets

Jean-Philippe Paradis over at HexstreamSoft has a very nice set of tweets on Common Lisp tips. For example, 【Meta+x】 slime-cheat-sheet opens a new frame with useful slime commands and their shortcuts. As Paradis remarks, this is virtually unknown—I sure didn’t … Continue reading

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Forensics with DRAKMA

I ran across the Open States Website, which provides information on legislative activity for many (and eventually all) of the U.S. states. They have an API that allows you to query information via http and get answers formatted as JSON. … Continue reading

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Juan José García Ripoll: Lisp Hacker

This is slightly old news but over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything there’s a nice interview with Juan José García Ripoll, the developer of Embeddable Common Lisp. The thing about Ripoll is that he’s not a programmer1; he’s a … Continue reading

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Common Lisp For Noobs

Lori Holden over at Ghost Opera, Ltd has a nice post with advice for noobs wanting to get started with Common Lisp. As Holden points out, Common Lisp is beautiful and powerful but has some sharp edges and no commonly … Continue reading

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A Common Lisp Quick Reference

Bert Burgemeister has a very nice Common Lisp Quick Reference available for download. The idea is that you print it out, fold the pages, and staple them to form a little booklet. He’s got copies for A4 and letter size … Continue reading

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A Cool Common Lisp Tip

I wrote the other day about Zach Beane’s new Common Lisp Tips blog. Yesterday, he had a really nifty tip that solves a common problem. We’ve all had situations where we want to output something like Processed 1 file. or … Continue reading

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