Lispworks 5.1 Personal Edition
At last, Lispworks Ltd has announced the release of Lispworks 5.1 Personal Edition!New features- Threading now uses pthread on Linux- FreeBSD port- Support for Intel Mac'sMore here
View Articledarjeeling
This looks as if it could be quite interesting.The ability to convert Ruby to Common Lisp (or ideally just load ruby files) should put paid to complaints about the lack of libraries in CL.Of course it...
View ArticleFormat
Format is one of those features in Common Lisp that people seem to have a love/hate relationship with, the other being loop. Both have their own mini languages that are not especially lispy. I'm still...
View Articleorf (a Common Lisp version of ||=)
I've recently been programming in ruby and one of the handy operators I'vebeen using has been ||= .If you haven't seen it before think of it in terms of += .So x ||= 3 is equivalent to x = x || 3.I've...
View ArticleORF and values
As it turns out my previous post does not allow a values form as a place (the macro expands into invalid code).So here is an updated version which behaves as follows.When provided with a values form...
View ArticleFeisty Friday
OK so it's not Friday, but Ubuntu Feisty Fawn has been released.I've been constantly impressed with each release of Ubuntu andcan heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to see what Linuxis like.
View Articleasdf-install & Windows
Thanks to Nate's latest release of archive we can now use asdf-install on Windowswithout resorting to cygwin or gnu-tar. Just add the following to your .asdf-install.(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op...
View ArticleHunchentoot and packages
Over the past couple of years I've been experimenting with a number of CLhttp servers and have recently turned to hunchentoot as my platform of choicewhich, like the rest of Edi's packages, has found...
View ArticleAdvertising is good
Lifted from Akita's interview I think that Ruby have almost all the power I'm used to from Common Lisp. [sic] - Ola BiniUnsolicited advertising from a well respected individual, 'nuff said.
View ArticleLisp in Lisp
One of the fantastic things about Common Lisp is discovering how you can write parts of the language in the language itself and I'm not talking about implementing number parsing or some library...
View ArticleClosures + Lambda < CLOS
There's a blog post floating around the web[1] on how Closures + Lambda make up all the OO programming tools you'll ever want or need. Now this is a long running theme[2] in the Lisp family and really...
View ArticleRuby Quiz 144 (in CL)
There was a small posting on c.l.l asking if anyone felt like completing Ruby quiz 144 in CL and after eric's solution I thought I'd give it a go.This needs :cl-ppcre and :alexandria (and :lisp-unit to...
View ArticleThe 'pre Arc' Arc
Seeing that arc is the word on everyones lips I thought I'd take a quick peek.In Summary.- data in the functional position is interesting.- [] function syntax is neat (and almost as nice as the #L...
View ArticleCase Conversion Considered Useful
One of the stranger[1] features of Common Lisp is that the CL reader, by default, will convert symbols to uppercase[2] which can be a little surprising to newcomers, and inevitably leads misconceptions...
View ArticleRenaming files in Common Lisp.
So I ran across this while going through my morning catchup routine and thought it could do with some clearing up. The part of the post I'm actually interested is this.When Haskell can compete on those...
View ArticleAnnouncing Mudballs
This post is to announce the release of Mudballs, a collection of Common Lisp code for managing systems. It is currently in an early stage of development and still has a long way to go but is...
View ArticleA Mudballs Update
Yes, I know it's late but better late than never right.Anyway, I have just uploaded the 'Christmas Cheer' release of mudballs which, unfortunately, will require a fresh install of mudballs for existing...
View ArticleMudballs Google Group
Not a full update I'm afraid, although one will be coming shortly.In the interests of promoting discussion about Mudballs I have created a mudballs google group.This can be found by pointing your...
View ArticleMudballs 3
Well, I've finally pushed Mudballs 3 out the door and, while it contains a large number of changes and many improvements, this post isn't only about the work that has been done in the past few months...
View ArticleHunchentoot, CCL and Windows
It's been a couple of months now and I've been warming to CCL, so much so in fact, that it has replaced SBCL as my `other` CL implementation. If you've never used it, it is an Open Source Common Lisp...
View ArticleHunchentoot and CCL on Windows. Take 2.
I recently posted a brief workaround for a bug in CCL on MS Windows which prevented Hunchentoot from responding to HTTP requests. Shortly after posting this I, and everyone else on the openmcl-devel...
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