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One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only! 83 37 (2/20/2005 12:57:14 AM) comp.lang.lisp I just put up a substantially revised 2nd draft of the introduction to my book. All other chapters have been through copy-edit or even page proof. The introduction has been, in many ways, the hardest chapter to... Peter

Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck 69 35 (2/16/2005 1:02:49 AM) comp.lang.lisp So it turns out Apress book covers have two taglines in addition to the title. The first one is a short phrase and the second is a longer sentence that's supposed to summarize what the book is about or somethin... Peter

Lisp innovations? 31 32 (2/15/2005 10:49:02 PM) comp.lang.lisp For my introduction (which I'm now revising) I need a list of programming language innovations first introduced in Lisp family languages. My current list is: recursive functions, dynamically allocated memory... Peter

Looking for bored Lisper with GUI chops. 5 40 (2/11/2005 11:21:34 PM) comp.lang.lisp I had coffee today with buddy of mine who is, sadly, a Lispnot. We were talking about language advocacy and he pointed to an essay he wrote about using the Bloglines API from Groovy (the dynamic language based ... Peter

Now serving number 18. 2 31 (1/31/2005 9:53:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp Anyone who's planning on having me buy them a beer at ILC 2005 should note that I'm now working on Chapter 18 and plan to turn in my 3rd draft later today. So if you've got some comments on that chapter, please... Peter

Final 1st draft chapter of Practical Common Lisp on web 12 28 (1/31/2005 9:43:55 PM) comp.lang.lisp I just put up the first draft of Chapter 32, "Conclusion: What Next?" up on my web site at: In this chapter I touch on a few topics not given full coverage elsewhere in the book such as finding libraries, ... Peter

History of CLIM? 9 30 (1/30/2005 10:11:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp Can someone point me to a history of CLIM? I gather that it was somewhat of a joint venture of different Lisp vendors from the days when "Lisp vendors" included folks like Symbolics. Was it based on the Lisp Ma... Peter

Looking for a better term 6 36 (1/29/2005 7:33:48 PM) comp.lang.lisp In my chapter on user-defined classes I use the term "user-defined" classes to mean classes that are defined with DEFCLASS and are instances of STANDARD-CLASS. In a footnote I explain that this isn't exactly th... Peter

Will trade bloopers for beer 1 30 (1/26/2005 12:57:57 AM) comp.lang.lisp For a variety of reasons including having one of my official technical reviewers sidelined by health problems I'm in the end game of writing _Practical Common Lisp_ with not quite enough technical reviewing res... Peter

Send me your poor, your tired, your ASD files 2 44 (1/21/2005 9:26:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm writing a bit about ASDF in the final chapter of my book and it'd be a huge help if I had a bunch of ASD files to look at. Obviously I could go download a bunch of libraries and extract the ASD files but I'... Peter

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Noob: conditional let? 16 37 (2/13/2005 7:32:08 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm writing an Emacs lisp function that uses two local variables. The values of these local variables depend on the result of an elaborate test condition. I couldn't figure anything better than (let ((fo... jkrugman345 (21)

Newbie - I need a suggestion 15 24 (2/13/2005 6:36:53 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi - I've been trying to learn Lisp, since everyone who knows it or writes about it seems to think it's the best thing since sliced bread. And from what I have seen and done, I can tell it's a rich, expre... bryan-No-Spam (4)

Lisp innovations? 31 32 (2/15/2005 10:49:02 PM) comp.lang.lisp For my introduction (which I'm now revising) I need a list of programming language innovations first introduced in Lisp family languages. My current list is: recursive functions, dynamically allocated memory... peter9330 (968)

Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck 69 35 (2/16/2005 1:02:49 AM) comp.lang.lisp So it turns out Apress book covers have two taglines in addition to the title. The first one is a short phrase and the second is a longer sentence that's supposed to summarize what the book is about or somethin... peter9330 (968)

Object Oriented Omissions 11 40 (2/16/2005 3:45:46 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi all, I'm presently learning Lisp and I'm puzzled by what appear to be significant omissions in the capabilities of CLOS. Specifically, I'm concerned with: 1. The lack of access specifiers. In particular,... talktotony (12)

Help with research 10 27 (2/16/2005 8:05:56 PM) comp.lang.lisp Apologies for this off-topic post. I'm a Java/C++ developer who is also studying psychology. I would really appreciate it if you would complete a survey that I'm using for a research project on programmers. ... elena (36)

need good IDE and advice 7 39 (2/16/2005 10:11:26 PM) comp.lang.lisp Running Windows 98 SE and Debian GNU Linux (unstable release) with 2.4.18 kernel. 1) how to install ANSI Common Lisp? 2) What are good IDEs for each platform? 3) how to learn Lisp for free (PDF/free book etc... netrek (202)

wacky PPC lisp os fundamentals 8 34 (2/18/2005 9:29:11 PM) comp.lang.lisp Let's say you have a 64-bit CPU such as the MPC970 that has an MMU that allows you to manage 16MByte pages (instead of the usual 4KB) and you want to write a bootable Lisp-OS. You are less concerned with makin... solidgoldsuleyman (10)

One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only! 83 37 (2/20/2005 12:57:14 AM) comp.lang.lisp I just put up a substantially revised 2nd draft of the introduction to my book. All other chapters have been through copy-edit or even page proof. The introduction has been, in many ways, the hardest chapter to... peter9330 (968)

packages for strings 3 48 (2/20/2005 8:22:27 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, is it a good practice to use packages to intern strings in a program? Or should one use a hash table instead? David ... david.tolpin (148)