Tag Archives: Lisp

Silly Arguments

Posted on 2012-12-22 by jcs

It’s time, again, for me to be grumpy and start waving my cane at those damn kids playing on my lawn. Some of you, ever solicitous of my mental health and well being have advised me not to care what … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.2 Is Released

Posted on 2012-12-02 by jcs

Christophe Rhodes is announcing that he has released Steel Banks Common Lisp 1.1.2. You can get the release at the SBCL Download Page. As always, installation is simple. I did my usual dance of sh make.sh cd test sh run-tests.sh … Continue reading →

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Mawking AWK with Lisp

Posted on 2012-11-29 by jcs

Back in 2009, Brendan O’Connor over at AI and Social Science posted an article entitled Don’t MAWK AWK—the fastest and most elegant big data munging language! He recently posted an update that caused the original article to pop up on … Continue reading →

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The Y-Combinator

Posted on 2012-11-24 by jcs

Jim Weirich, of Neo gave a really nice talk on The Y-Combinator at RubyConf2012. Given the venue, the examples are, of course, in Ruby but you should have no difficulty following them: I know no Ruby at all but was … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp Naming Conventions

Posted on 2012-11-11 by jcs

Over at the newly redesigned Common Lisp Wiki, CLiki, they have an excellent page on Common Lisp naming conventions. Most people that have done a non-trivial amount of Lisp programming will be at least dimly aware of many of these … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.1 Is Out

Posted on 2012-11-03 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.1.1 is out. As usual, compilation and installation were a snap. Out of irrational paranoia I always run the verification tests after I compile. Of course, everything was fine: all the tests except those expected to … Continue reading →

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An Interview with François-René (Faré) Rideau

Posted on 2012-10-21 by jcs

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

Posted on 2012-10-15 by jcs

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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Chibi Scheme

Posted on 2012-10-13 by jcs

I just ran across an update announcement for Chibi Scheme, a small Scheme intended to be used as an extension language for C programs. It supports the small R7RS language and can be configured at compile time to produce a … Continue reading →

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Reader Macros

Posted on 2012-10-09 by jcs

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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