Tag Archives: Lisp

SBCL 1.1.11 Is Out

Posted on 2013-09-02 by jcs

The latest version of my favorite Common Lisp environment, SBCL, is out and available at the usual place. If you’re running Linux there’s a binary available, otherwise just grab the source and compile it yourself. Compiling is very easy—just follow … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp versus Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2013-08-31 by jcs

As a user of both Elisp and Common Lisp I sometimes have a hard time remembering the small differences. Many of these are “hidden” in the sense that identically named functions behave differently. One such example is that functions such … Continue reading →

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A Lisp Bookshelf

Posted on 2013-08-10 by jcs

Mozart Reina has a post up about his Lisp bookshelf. It’s a nice collection of books that anyone wanting to master Lisp should read. My favorite, SICP, is there as is Lisp in Small Pieces a book I very much … Continue reading →

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Tail Call Optimization in Lisp Implementations

Posted on 2013-07-31 by jcs

Early on in my Lisp education, I learned Scheme and became enamored with using recursion as a primary iteration strategy. It’s hard to avoid this in Scheme because it doesn’t have any other general recursion mechanisms besides do. In Common … Continue reading →

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The Last Word on XML

Posted on 2013-07-30 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis has a pithy evaluation of XML.

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SBCL 1.1.9 Is Out

Posted on 2013-07-10 by jcs

The latest version of Steel Bank Common Lisp, 1.1.9, is out and available at the usual place. As always, the system built and tested without problems on my MacBook Pro and iMac. The big news this month is that SBCL … Continue reading →

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Speculative Problems

Posted on 2013-06-23 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis tweeted the perfect answer to those who complain about “problems” with Lisp syntax. The tweet was apparently provoked by this post from John Cook that, while discussing symbols in programming languages, remarked that “Lisp’s typographical monotony makes it … Continue reading →

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Lisp Hackers

Posted on 2013-06-22 by jcs

For some time Vsevolod Dyomkin has been running interviews with Lisp hackers on his blog, Lisp, The Universe and Everything. Irreal has featured many of these in the past. Now Dyomkin has gathered those interviews and assembled them into a … Continue reading →

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Quickutil

Posted on 2013-06-19 by jcs

Robert Smith and Eitarow Fukamachi have started a really interesting new project: Quickutil. The idea is to do for small Lisp utilities what Quicklisp does for Lisp libraries. Smith explains it all on his SYMBO1ICS IDEAS blog but the TL;DR … Continue reading →

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European Lisp Symposium

Posted on 2013-06-18 by jcs

Here are links to the talks from the European Lisp Symposium from this June. There were some technical problems but most of the talks were captured. These are audio links and in some cases the accompanying slides (as PDFs). If … Continue reading →

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