Q: JVM based Lisp implementations and saving images - possible?1734 (8/11/2009 6:14:22 PM) comp.lang.lisp From what little I understand of the JVM it is not possible to dump the state of a JVM application and restart that state later. Correct? That would mean that no Lisp (or Smalltalk) on the JVM could save and r... Rainer
Dividing the Continent337 (2/11/2009 9:52:37 AM) comp.lang.lisp Blog post by Brian Hayes: http://bit-player.org/2009/long-division "The new program is written in Common Lisp rather than Scheme � not for any deep reason, just because that�s the flavor of the week. The... Rainer
Reminder: Common Lisp Weekly News071 (1/21/2009 6:55:55 PM) comp.lang.lisp Weekly news are published for several programming language communities. Since december 2008 there are weekly news collected for (Common) Lisp: http://lispnews.wordpress.com/ Quoted from the website: Lisp... Rainer
News: computer algebra system REDUCE published under BSD license023 (1/20/2009 10:28:10 AM) comp.lang.lisp I just saw that REDUCE has been published under a (modified) BSD license. Some infos: Reduce is a computer algebra system first published in 1969 (!). This means the software has survived 40 (!) years. Main an... Rainer
Lisp on the JVM2828 (1/19/2009 9:37:33 PM) comp.lang.lisp http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/lisp.html cough -- http://lispm.dyndns.org/ ... Rainer
Aquamacs 1.6 and SLIME047 (1/19/2009 5:15:43 PM) comp.lang.lisp Mac users might be interested that Aquamacs 1.6 has been released. David Reitter made another release just a few days ago. Many thanks! Download here: http://aquamacs.org/download.shtml A visible change ... Rainer
Questions about Scheme community acitivy921 (12/20/2008 10:56:17 AM) comp.lang.scheme Hi, I wonder what to say about Lisp activity after 2000. I'd like to add something to a Wikipedia article. My feeling is that CL activity is quite a bit up since 2000, compared to 1995-2000. Dan Weinreb has r... Rainer
Common Lisp Weekly News031 (12/20/2008 9:41:44 AM) comp.lang.lisp http://lispnews.wordpress.com/ Looks like a useful service. Let's see how long it lasts. Make sure you send a message to (reverse '("com" "." "yahoo" "@" "anyakinvictor")) of everything newsworthy you w... Rainer
Great screencast tutorial: Raytracing in Lisp3336 (12/15/2008 2:10:21 PM) comp.lang.lisp Probably many know that I made a few movies showing obscure and dead user interfaces or how to write some code parsing trivial data records. This has spawned some screencasts done by other people. This time it... Rainer
AND type specifier in ANSI CL, interpretation1531 (12/5/2008 9:19:12 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, given a type like this one: (and symbol (satisfies fboundp)). Would you think that (typep 3 '(and symbol (satisfies fboundp))) can signal an error? In this case the order of type checks is importan... Rainer
RFC: A shorter lambda syntax (#L reader macro)2520 (12/22/2011 10:52:23 PM) comp.lang.lisp --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have created a new reader macro to make writing lambda-heavy code less cumbersome. Code that used mapcar and friends a lot tends to include many instances ... krzysdrewniakNOSPAM1(3)
PCL trash 21234 (3/7/2011 2:11:32 AM) comp.lang.lisp While dumpster-diving, I found a discarded copy of PCL.* Let's use Bigloo Scheme to improve upon the book. Currying, function composition, and recursion will be displayed. Bigloo will need these prelimin... w_a_x_man(2777)
PCL trash5043 (3/4/2011 3:53:10 AM) comp.lang.lisp While dumpster-diving, I found a discarded copy of PCL.* The book devotes a whole chapter to the COBOLer's delight: LOOP. Those who aren't comfortable with higher-order functions are completely dependent upon... w_a_x_man(2777)
loop iterate and nested collection1444 (3/3/2011 10:29:54 AM) comp.lang.lisp Consider this: (loop for i from 1 to 5 do (loop for j in '("a" "b" "c" "d") collect (list i j))) > NIL In the package iterate to avoid that the list created by the inner iterate is simply ignored ... franco(241)
Smalltalk-like Tools78117 (1/22/2011 8:14:01 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hey, all.
I'm a fairly experienced programmer, in Algol-style languages. I've
been trying to find an excuse to really learn (by which I mostly mean
"write something useful in it") CL for years. That's most... james.ashley(5)
Ugly coding from a lisp green belt2139 (1/20/2011 9:03:43 AM) comp.lang.lisp So I have been speding hours on coding a single function #'frgo and trying to get it to "look good". I have a list of lists defining an instruction of a to-be-built Lisp CPU like this: '((op 6 nil) (nil 3 #... dg1sbg1(135)
Using the debugger correctly1838 (1/9/2011 6:42:29 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I'm a newbie using sbcl 1.0.4 on debian, with Slime. I'm trying to work out how to use the debugger so that it shows me where in my function an error was generated. I've posted the following questoin on ... joelhalbert0(4)
A minigame written using CLOS3035 (12/31/2010 9:33:10 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, I've been wanting to learn CLOS lately. So, after reading Keene's book carefully, I wrote a small space shoot'em up game using CLOS, lispbuilder-sdl, and cl-opengl. The game itself isn't noteworthy--tho... psilord760(86)
list looping23138 (12/21/2010 10:06:58 PM) comp.lang.lisp For exercise I'm running through the problems from here:
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/funcional/L-99_Ninety-Nine_Lisp_Problems.html
For some of these, I'm wanting to write code ... Dan
how to split by half?13188 (12/7/2010 11:10:11 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm learning CLISP, and i would to know if there's a function (or how
to defun'e) that given a sequence (list, array, string...) split it by
half+1, Something like this;
(split-by-half '(a b c d e f g))
... Steve