Tag Archives: Lisp

Red Meat Friday: Infix in Lisp

Posted on 2022-02-04 by jcs

For all you Lisp n00bs who really, really hate Lisp’s prefix notation, I have some good news: there’s a weird trick that allows you to use infix notation. Works in Elisp too! Get infix operators in Clojure with this one … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Learn Lisp This Year

Posted on 2022-02-02 by jcs

For those of you who still haven’t learned some sort of Lisp, Gavin Freeborn has a video pushing the idea you should learn at least one of the Lisps this year. If you already know Lisp, the video won’t tell … Continue reading →

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Guile Hacker Handbook

Posted on 2021-11-24 by jcs

I recently came across the Guile Hacker Handbook, a work in progress that’s worth a look for any Guile hackers. After some sections on installing Guile (and Emacs) the handbook considers various Scheme constructs and how to use and test … Continue reading →

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Lisp at Kina

Posted on 2021-11-21 by jcs

I haven’t talked about Common-Lisp on Irreal for a long time. That’s mostly because the majority of my recent Lisp programming has been in Elisp but I still love Common-Lisp and Scheme and am always happy when I find an … Continue reading →

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Clojure and Scheme Compared

Posted on 2021-03-06 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m sometimes tempted to take up Clojure but have always been put off by its reliance on the JVM. Last year, Mike Zamansky posted a couple of videos (1, 2) on using Clojure for the Advent … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: What Could Have Been

Posted on 2020-07-03 by jcs

Here’s some red meat for all you parentheses haters and Blub users: Society if Lisp had been industry standard since 1958 pic.twitter.com/cRsaDTMPmP — julesh (@_julesh_) July 2, 2020 It’s probably a little hyperbolic but it feels right to us Lisp … Continue reading →

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How To Start a Common Lisp Project

Posted on 2020-02-12 by jcs

As I mentioned the other day, I haven’t been using Common Lisp much lately so I was a little rusty when I wrote my A Palindrome Predicate Coda post. It’s not that I forgot the Lisp itself, that’s sufficiently like … Continue reading →

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A Palindrome Predicate Coda

Posted on 2020-01-07 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, I upgraded my Common Lisp environment to SBCL 2.0 so of course I wanted to try it out. Writing Lisp programs in the excellent Slime environment that Emacs provides is truly a pleasure that I haven’t … Continue reading →

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SBCL 2.0.0

Posted on 2020-01-06 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp has a new version out. I haven’t been writing much Common Lisp lately so I haven’t kept the software up to date. SBCL makes a new release every month and I always compile from source so … Continue reading →

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Car and Cdr versus Head and Tail

Posted on 2019-12-08 by jcs

Right after parentheses, one of the things about Lisp that non-Lispers—and even some Lispers—like to complain about are the names of the two functions car and cdr. A common understanding is that car returns the first entry of a list … Continue reading →

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