Tag Archives: Lisp

Quickdocs Documentation

Posted on 2013-06-14 by jcs

Quickdocs keeps getting better and better. Now they have nicely formatted documentation for the Quicklisp packages. These are nice enough and easy enough to access that I use them for my primary package documentation. They’re a lot easier to bring … Continue reading →

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Marc Battyani Interview

Posted on 2013-06-13 by jcs

Vsevolod Dyomkin has another great entry in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything. This time it’s with Marc Battyani, a Lisp hacker and entrepreneur whose company, NovaSparks, builds ultra-low-latency FPGA-based supercomputers for … Continue reading →

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Lisp Web Tales

Posted on 2013-06-12 by jcs

Pavel Penev is writing a book, Lisp Web Tales, about Web applications and Common Lisp. He describes it as a set of tutorials and examples. I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time because it seems like a … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.8 Is Out

Posted on 2013-06-06 by jcs

I just updated my Common Lisp system, SBCL, to the latest version, 1.1.8. Between now and the last update, I had upgraded OS X to Mountain Lion. That, of course, meant that I had to reload GCC and the other … Continue reading →

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DSLs

Posted on 2013-05-25 by jcs

I have a long standing love affair with Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Back when I was writing in C, I wrote several compilers and associated interpreters for various DSLs. This mainly involved using fairly heavyweight tools like lex and yacc … Continue reading →

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linedit

Posted on 2013-05-04 by jcs

Pavel Penev has updated and republished his excellent post Learning Lisp The Bump Free Way. It’s a nice introduction to the problems that Lisp n00bs face and how to overcome them. If you know anyone struggling with learning Lisp, this … Continue reading →

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A Summary of New Libraries in April’s Quicklisp

Posted on 2013-05-03 by jcs

Ben Hyde has produced a summary of the new libraries in April’s Quicklisp distribution. Each item has a link to the library’s README so it’s easy to get a more detailed look at libraries that interest you. A very nice … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.7 Released

Posted on 2013-05-01 by jcs

The folks at Steel Banks Common Lisp have released SBCL 1.1.7. As usual the build, test, and installation went without mishap. This month’s release is mainly bug fixes but also includes an enhancement to TRACE so that PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued … Continue reading →

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Vi(m) and Lisp

Posted on 2013-04-29 by jcs

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I was a Vi(m) user for a long time. I switched to Emacs when I started doing most of my programming in Lisp and Scheme. My main reason … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.6 Released

Posted on 2013-03-31 by jcs

The latest version of SBCL has been released. As usual, compilation and installation went without problem. You can read the News file for a complete list of changes but the TL;DR is Speed up of the compiler for certain constructs … Continue reading →

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