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Garbage collection tweaking 6 34 (8/17/2006 1:55:07 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm wondering: do some Lisp implementations allow the programmer to interact with how garbage is collected? For example, tell the system to use reference counting to respect some real time constraints? Another... Pierre

Why if as special form instead of cond? 9 36 (8/17/2006 4:10:52 AM) comp.lang.lisp As I've read the original paper of McCarthy on Lisp, I'm now wondering about the rationale of if as special form and cond as a macro built on top of it, as ti was the contrary in early Lisp. Is it because the i... Pierre

Where comes the myth that Lisp is interpreted?! 31 26 (8/13/2006 8:10:55 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've read `The Roots of Lisp' yesterday, and it teased me so that I searched the original paper from McCarthy. So I'm now in the middle of `Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by M... Pierre

Difference between function and closure 1 27 (8/12/2006 4:57:28 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm just playing with lambda and closure, and I don't understand why two forms don't evaluate to the same result. I defined a dynamic variable to hold the closure, named *incrementer*. (FWIW, I'm under SLIME wi... Pierre

Remote debugging 29 35 (8/6/2006 11:34:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've already read quite some times that one of the wonderful features of Lisp is the ability to debug an application that is running, by changing it's state and even definitions (macros, functions, objects and ... Pierre

CLIM elsewhere than X 1 27 (8/1/2006 8:03:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm wanting to write a GUI application. CLIM seemed to be interesting, but is there any other free implementetation than for X? Specifically, is there one for Win XP? Curiously, Nowhere man -- nowhere.man@le... Pierre

Impossible to redefine package 7 22 (7/24/2006 9:43:12 AM) comp.lang.lisp I've stumbled on a problem when trying to redefine a package. I'm writing a singly-linked list package: (defpackage :sda-list (:import-from :cl :defclass :defmethod :in-package :do :not :1+) (:export :slis... Pierre

Implementation of CL data structures 9 28 (7/18/2006 10:26:00 AM) comp.lang.lisp As it seems to me that any data structure I know can be implemented if you have scalars, structures and efficient indice-accessed containers (typically contiguous allocated space), I'm wondering if CL implement... Pierre

Playing with pathnames 1 40 (7/16/2006 4:13:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, as I'm playing with pathnames and ASDF, I wonder why the following code: (setf (logical-pathname-translations "xdg-config") '(("**;*.*.*" (merge-pathnames ".config/**/" (user-homedir-pathname))))) ... Pierre

Reader macros list? 1 33 (7/15/2006 11:57:41 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, while trying the GTK+ clg binding, I stumbled accross the #+ reader macro, and I only figured out what it does in a page about Allegro where it's semantic was obvious enough for me to understand. Is there... Pierre

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What are some things lisp can do that smalltalk can't? 11 36 (12/17/2006 7:43:10 AM) comp.lang.lisp Lisp I have heard can copy the features of any language. What are some things lisp can do that smalltalk can't? ... bootiack (361)

A G�del number Lisp (primitive recursive functions fun) 14 47 (12/19/2006 1:48:37 PM) comp.lang.lisp A recent c.l.l thread was talking about what maximum list size can be held in a 32 bit lisp. The idea that lists have some relation with pointers or machine words is very... C(asm even) oriented IMO. Here is... Marc.Battyani (373)

University research with Lisp 4 22 (3/19/2007 5:24:56 PM) comp.lang.lisp I would like to know some Universities (departments) were research is done using Lisp and in the following domains: - programming language design and - software engineering. I'm not saying studying Lisp itself,... adi.dozsa (30)

mapping functions with functions as parameters? 12 29 (3/27/2007 7:12:47 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi! does anybody know how to use a mapping function with functions instead of lists? I've written some auxiliary functions and instead of calling them separately with many conditions I want to use a mapping fu... Daniela.Nitsch (11)

What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities 24 26 (3/29/2007 3:01:37 PM) comp.lang.lisp What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities Xah Lee, 20050128 Classes, Methods, Objects In computer languages, often a function definition looks like this: subroutine f (x1, x2, ...) { variables ... do this... xah (463)

[Debian] cl-task? 6 26 (4/4/2007 1:45:26 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi folks, Reading planet-lisp this morning, I stumbled upon Bill Clementsons blog entry about STARTER-PACK by Edi Weitz, which provides a nice starting point for some of the more common lisp libraries. Edi has... Holger.Schauer (110)

F# 65 33 (4/17/2007 12:36:42 PM) comp.lang.lisp With enough effort it is theoretically possible to extend Lisp to have some of the features of the F# programming language from Microsoft Research. Or you can just learn F# itself: http://www.ffconsultancy.... jon (3267)

LispWorks on Sale 8 30 (4/18/2007 6:20:00 AM) comp.lang.lisp I don't believe I saw this mentioned, but LispWorks is on sale until the end of the month. Apologies if it's already been posted. http://www.lispworks.com/buy/special-offer.html -- Robert Uhl If you deci... eadmund42 (519)

Anybody still use those old lisp machines? 4 38 (4/20/2007 8:54:41 PM) comp.lang.lisp I am looking for a used lisp machine that works! Preferably a Xerox 1185 or 1186. With the necessary ROMs! Preferably here in Europe! This is to recover some software and advance on it... Thanks, --Ralp... ralph4 (2)

What are the domains that lisp doesn't fit int? 79 26 (4/27/2007 2:14:28 PM) comp.lang.lisp I just finished reading Anti Patterns Refactoring Software Architectures,and it hint me that i'm regularly singing gospels to lisp being a universal hummer for every kind of problem. Once in a while somebody a... slobodan.blazeski (1459)