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Redirecting program output with SBCL's RUN-PROGRAM 7 837 (2/28/2010 6:26:51 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm trying to figure out how to use the output stream of one program I start with RUN-PROGRAM so it can be used as the input of another program started with RUN-PROGRAM (i.e., the moral and perhaps literal e... Pillsy

Re: The audience for Mathematica (Was: Re: Show doesn't work inside 0 43 (7/31/2009 9:59:04 AM) comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica On Jul 29, 5:07 am, Richard Fateman wrote: > Helen Read wrote: > > It *is* useful to average college students. Every one of my calculus > > students learns to use Mathematica successfully, even the belo... Pillsy

Delivering a .so/.dylib 7 26 (7/8/2009 3:22:44 AM) comp.lang.lisp For a specific project, it would be very useful to be able to deliver a library that people could link to from C and C++ programs. I have a pretty large base of Common Lisp code (in SBCL as of now) that impleme... Pillsy

1GB Kernel Memory Limit 2 32 (6/5/2009 8:12:04 PM) comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica Hi, all, I'm currently working on a problem that requires a whole lot of memory to complete. Sometimes, depending on the specific parameters being used, I will receive the dreaded, "No more memory availabl... Pillsy

Reference Implementation of the CL Condition System 4 41 (6/2/2009 4:37:46 AM) comp.lang.lisp I seem to recall stumbling across a simple reference implementation of the CL condition system online maybe a year back, but when I went looking for it again last week I was completely unable to find it. I've s... Pillsy

Controlling and Examining Memory Use in SBCL 8 31 (6/9/2008 3:05:31 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm working on a project in SBCL 1.0.17 on OS X 10.5.3 that requires allocating a very large number of objects (CLOS instances, structs and double-floats, mostly), and have been running into issues where I exha... Pillsy

Using MAKE-INSTANCE, INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE 3 22 (11/6/2007 3:45:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp I am currently working on sorting out some bad mistakes that I made early in the design of the Monte Carlo simulation I work on and use. I'm increasingly needing extensibility and flexibility so I can change en... Pillsy

Iterating over generic sequences. 6 27 (9/26/2007 6:47:33 PM) comp.lang.lisp What do you use to iterate over a generic sequence (in the manner of quite a few of the "library" functions like FIND-IF)? The major possibilities seem to be: 1. Using ELT with LOOP or DOTIMES (which seems nee... Pillsy

CL Implementations and Tail-Call Elimination 18 27 (9/10/2007 4:59:37 PM) comp.lang.lisp Every once in a while, a newbie comes along working through a problem where they use recursion to do iteration, and usually one of the first things anyone suggests is that they switch over to using DOLIST or LO... Pillsy

[MOPish] A question about ADD-METHOD and closures. 2 31 (8/28/2007 4:53:49 PM) comp.lang.lisp Is there any way to use ADD-METHOD to add a closure (with additional information about specializers and qualifiers, of course) as a method to a generic function? I've been trying to understand the AMOP document... Pillsy

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[ANN] Filtered functions 173 56 (12/4/2009 10:08:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I am very excited that I can finally annouce a public release of 'filtered functions', an extension of generic functions that Charlotte Herzeel, Jorge Vallejos, and myself have developed some time ago an... pc56 (3896)

Some help with sort 20 29 (1/13/2010 3:57:02 PM) comp.lang.lisp I want to sort a property list on the property date. I have the function: (defun dates-in-list? Aka: it is not possible to negate. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin... Cecil (71)

sudoku anyone? 20 211 (1/30/2010 1:18:10 AM) comp.lang.lisp Been learning unix system administration lately so I haven't had much time to program. (Unless you call basic scripting programming.) Today I took some time off so I made a rough prototype of a sudoku. To m... jpthing (785)

inverse function 43 49 (2/13/2010 5:27:43 PM) comp.lang.lisp Dear, Does someone know if there is any work done to generate an inverse of any given lisp function (if possible). Example: > (defun f (x) (+ x 1)) > (f 2) 3 > (funcall (inverse #'f) 3) 2 > (funcall (invers... taoufik (1)

can a make-instance method return a different class? 3 26 (2/19/2010 10:35:12 AM) comp.lang.lisp Suppose I have a class (defclass gamma () ((alpha :accessor alpha :initarg :alpha) (beta :accessor beta :initarg :beta))) characterizing a gamma distribution. The (scaled) chi-square distribution is act... tkpapp (975)

another frustrating learner question, CLOS 152 47 (2/24/2010 11:08:02 PM) comp.lang.lisp Learning Lisp is like pulling teeth, except more painful! Here is a code snippet copied directly from Figure 11.2, page 178, of Graham's 'ANSI Common Lisp': (defclass rec () (height width)) (defclass cir ()... cartercc (420)

Writing a macro that splices in an argument list to format. 4 23 (2/25/2010 11:01:29 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, I have a list of hash-tables with whose elements I would like to generate text with. I am trying to write a macro with the following signature: (defmacro generate-insert (format-str hash-table &rest... futuranon (8)

A pascal generator in CL ? 9 25 (3/16/2010 6:17:26 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, Does anyone know of a reasonable version of a CL lib that will create (relatively) standard pascal code? I've looked briefly on google, but not found much. Any links appreciated. Thanks DC ... creelman.david (8)

Anyone heard of Bee Lisp? 44 39 (3/16/2010 12:11:45 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm not really a Lisp programmer, but I saw an ad for Bee Lisp. Anyone heard of it? Is it any good? ... alt.mcarter2 (9)

lightweight database 53 22 (3/16/2010 2:22:36 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I need to use a simple database from CL. The database consists of timestamp/count pairs, a timestamp is a date&time, while the count is a single integer. The idea is that a server which runs the database... tkpapp (975)