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Lisp Job in CA 4 61 (11/17/2005 2:47:23 PM) comp.lang.lisp Just noticed this on dice dot com: "Title: LISP, Scheme Programmer Skills: lisp, scheme, prolog programming, mortgage, forms Date: 11-13-2005 Location: Brea, CA Area code: 714 Tax term: CON_W2 CON_HI... Kenny

Bizarro DSL problem 1 29 (11/14/2005 7:29:34 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm Ok, here is the puzzle: Start with a g3 iBook with probably Panther, loaned to some foreigners visiting NYC for a few months, so they would not have to go to internet cafes all the time. They take it home an... Kenny

Riots? 141 49 (11/4/2005 2:10:01 PM) comp.lang.lisp dear sabine, are you OK? are the riots anywhere near you? wow, you really walked into a big story this time. hope you are fine. peace, k ... Kenny

Head's Up!* 7 41 (10/18/2005 3:13:09 PM) comp.lang.lisp Winter startup deal from Paul Graham and C0: http://ycombinator.com/wfp2006.html * Warning yelled out at baseball games when a foul fly ball heads for the stands. -- Kenny Why Lisp? http://wiki.alu.o... Kenny

Paging VC++ gurus, or "C++ errors are soooo scrutable" <sigh> 9 42 (10/13/2005 10:18:20 PM) comp.lang.lisp This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010904020701050702080005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Recent discussion of wxCL had me ... Kenny

cl-sockets, Google, Lisp-NYC, and The Savages of c.l.l 23 42 (9/21/2005 3:57:08 PM) comp.lang.lisp We have a drama unfolding. Lisp-NYC has provided to Google positive evaluations for seven of the nine Summer of Code projects Google sponsored through Lisp NYC. One project retired in the face of unexpected ... Kenny

Any way to make a pointer for CLisp FLI ? 9 39 (9/19/2005 7:52:02 PM) comp.lang.lisp Lispworks has, for an arbitrary integer n: (fli:make-pointer :address n :pointer-type '(:pointer :void)) ACL has similar. And it seems CLisp likewise wants pointers passed thru its FLI to be somehow wrapp... Kenny

Calling all Savages.... 0 33 (9/16/2005 6:07:57 PM) comp.lang.lisp I have been testing CFFI (for the Google Summer of Code evaluation) for a few days now and it looks decent. I have tried the CFFI regression test suite on ACL, LW, and CLisp on WinXP, and OpenMCL on OS X. So... Kenny

Calling all binders 5 38 (9/7/2005 4:38:42 PM) comp.lang.lisp The cracking sound you hear is half of common-lisp.net breaking off and falling into the sea. The half being those projects dedicated to providing bindings to C/C++ libraries -- I just converted my cl-openal ... Kenny

ASDF newby Q 5 35 (9/2/2005 5:46:26 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hmmm. An ASDF definition lists :split-sequence as a dependency. I have split-sequence.lisp, and I took a stab and pushed the pathname of its directory onto *central-registry*, but ASDF still says it cannot fi... Kenny

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Macro Question: Paraphrasing 56 60 (11/14/2005 9:19:07 PM) comp.lang.lisp Suppose I have a function, (defun unzip (ticket zipfile target-path &key (if-exists :error verbose) ...) * where TICKET (if not NIL) lists the files to be extracted from the zipfile named by ZIPFILE and where... strangebreed1 (41)

Why is lisp not included as a functional language? 8 41 (11/17/2005 4:02:18 AM) comp.lang.lisp Why is lisp not included as a functional language on this page? http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//faq.html#languages ... casioculture (506)

mapcar irritation 18 32 (11/17/2005 5:08:18 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi all, according to CLHS the result of mapcar is: "The value returned by mapcar is a list of the results of successive calls to function." (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_mapc_.htm#ma... ahz1 (39)

Recursion or interation...?? 18 43 (11/18/2005 7:09:41 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, Doees anybody knows, what is better to use in LISP, recursion or interation...?? (in situation when you can use both) Thanks in advance, Robert...!!! ... robo_bralic (39)

I'm working on yet another license 178 70 (11/19/2005 2:36:17 PM) comp.lang.lisp x-posted to misc.int-property from comp.lang.lisp While the MIT license is my favorite free software license for code that I want to give away with no strings attached, the recent discussion over the LGPL[1] &... david1426 (765)

values passed to call-next-method 8 30 (11/19/2005 10:29:33 PM) comp.lang.lisp Does anyone know whether the consequenses of changing the values of function parameters before calling call-next-method are well defined or implementation dependent? I'm using sbcl, and don't have any other li... jimka (490)

Can I program myself a girlfriend in LISP ??? 11 0 (11/20/2005 7:44:07 AM) comp.lang.lisp Real women don't want me, so I have to program myself a girlfriend. Can I use LISP to write myself a girlfriend or can LISP only be used for writing boyfriends? A shemale would be ok, too, as long as she has b... cia_deviator (6)

Darpa Grand Challenge 05 3 39 (11/22/2005 2:09:58 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, does anybody know if there was a single team in the Darpa Grand Challenge 2005 which did *not* use C/C++ as primary software development language? -klaus ... klausm07629421 (1)

Reddit Guys on the Pros and Cons of Lisp 114 45 (11/29/2005 4:19:17 PM) comp.lang.lisp From http://www.davidnewberger.com/wp/2005/11/28/if-you-havent-reddit-you-are-missing-out/ as seen on Planet Lisp: "In the pros department: it�s a great programming language. Ruby, python, perl, java can�t re... ufo1 (49)

MUSING: standard bodies vs benevolent dictators, popularity 14 39 (12/19/2005 1:04:54 AM) comp.lang.lisp I've been proficient at Perl and Python in the past and I'm learning lisp. On my quest for programming enlightenment I wanted to learn the CL way to manage packages only to find that there is no standard way!?... funkyj (111)