Tag Archives: Lisp

A Talk on Lisp Machines

Posted on 2013-03-19 by jcs

Over at LoperOS they’ve put up a video of a talk that Kalman Reti gave last year at the Boston Lisp Meeting. The talk is about the Symbolics Lisp Machines and includes a demo of the original software running in … Continue reading →

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More on Quickdocs

Posted on 2013-03-09 by jcs

Recently I mentioned the Quicklisp indexing site Quickdocs. Since then, Fukamachi has continued to improve the site. He’s added categories so that you can browse the list of all libraries concerned with, say, Graphics. That gives you an idea of … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.5 Is Out

Posted on 2013-03-01 by jcs

I know I just wrote about SBCL 1.1.4 but that was because I somehow missed its release notice. This month I’m doing better and writing about SBCL 1.1.5 closer to when it was actually released. As usual, compilation and installation … Continue reading →

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Quickdocs

Posted on 2013-02-26 by jcs

Eitarow Fukamachi has put up an interesting service called Quickdocs. It’s a search engine for the Quicklisp repository. There’s no directions or explanation of exactly what a search provides so it’s a bit of an adventure game but appears to … Continue reading →

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The Vivid Schemer

Posted on 2013-02-23 by jcs

Recursion always seems to cause beginning CS students trouble. One of the very best resources for learning and becoming comfortable with it is The Little Schemer. Although the exercises are in Scheme, they apply equally well to Common Lisp or … Continue reading →

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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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