Tag Archives: Lisp

More Common Lisp Tweets

Posted on 2012-10-07 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis has announced a “massive reorganization” of his Common Lisp tweets collection. He’s also added 200 about 70 new tweets to the collection for a total of almost 200. In the past, I’ve recommended going to his site for … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.0

Posted on 2012-10-04 by jcs

SBCL 1.1.0 has been released and is available from the SBCL Download page. Although they have brought the OS X binary up to date, I chose to compile from source. The compilation ran without difficulty and as far as I … Continue reading →

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Stop!

Posted on 2012-10-03 by jcs

Please. Stop. This. I’ve asked, nicely, previously. Now I’m getting annoyed. I’ve said it before: If you want Python, you know where to get it.

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Getting Started with Common Lisp on OS X

Posted on 2012-09-28 by jcs

I was reading Nikodemus Siivola’s excellent Common Lisp FAQ and came across a reference to Jonathan Fischer’s guide to getting started with Common Lisp on OS X. If you’re an Machead who’s wanting to get started with CL, these instructions … Continue reading →

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Daniel Weinreb

Posted on 2012-09-09 by jcs

As most of you have heard by now, Daniel Weinreb, one of the Lispers’ Tribal Elders and user/beta tester of the original Emacs, died on September 7. The Boston Globe and Xconomy have obituaries but surprisingly Weinreb had some interaction … Continue reading →

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Readable S-Expressions

Posted on 2012-08-27 by jcs

Why do people keep doing this? They should stop. Now. Really. There is nothing wrong with parentheses. Lispers like them and deal with them without difficulty. There is nothing wrong with Lisp syntax. Lispers like it and deal with it … Continue reading →

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The Google Billboard Puzzle

Posted on 2012-07-02 by jcs

A recent Programming Praxis problem resurrected the famous Google billboard puzzle. Back in July of 2004, Google put up billboards all over the country reading {FIRST 10-DIGIT PRIME IN CONSECUTIVE DIGITS OF E}.COM Those who solved the problem and followed … Continue reading →

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Dribble

Posted on 2012-06-26 by jcs

Nicholas May, on his blog Because two cents wasn’t enough, reminds me of something I’d long forgotten: The dribble command in Common Lisp. What dribble does is record a Lisp session much like the Unix script command or the Scheme … Continue reading →

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Error and Restarts in Common Lisp

Posted on 2012-06-06 by jcs

Robert Smith over at Symbo1ics Ideas has a very nice introduction to restarts in Common Lisp. Restarts are a part of the CL error system (more accurately, part of the CL condition system) and provide a way to recover from … Continue reading →

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The Social Network of a Word

Posted on 2012-06-03 by jcs

I ran across an interesting interview question the other day: Given a base word and a list of other words, use the Levenshtein distance to find the social network of the base word in the list of other words. More … Continue reading →

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