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Smug scheme weenies? 40 24 (1/6/2005 2:33:24 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm just starting "Essentials of Programming Languages, Second Edition" and for the nth time I'm reading that Scheme "combines the uniform syntax and data abstraction capabilities of Lisp with the lixical scopi... ralphc

Looking for comments on this comment on Scheme macros 2 34 (9/16/2004 3:02:29 AM) comp.lang.lisp From "Using a hierarchy of Domain Specific Languages in complex software systems design" (http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.PL/0409016), Vitaly Lugovsky says "and even the current Scheme standard R5RS contains only h... ralphc

Multimethods vs. Multiple Inheritance/Mixins 3 34 (6/25/2004 4:22:21 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm about to come across my own version of the classic problem where I have different types of data and I will want to draw or render the data different ways. In Common Lisp the obvious way seems to be to hav... ralphc

How would you do this cool Ruby trick in Lisp/CLOS? 46 35 (4/12/2004 2:13:22 AM) comp.lang.lisp This excerpt is from "Dynamic Productivity with Ruby", at http://www.artima.com/intv/tuesday.html >Yukihiro Matsumoto: First of all, you don't have to use that feature. >The most useful application of dynamic... ralphc

Source-to-source and Data-to-data transformations 2 42 (9/3/2003 1:07:53 AM) comp.lang.lisp Norvig and Pitman's "Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style" mentions that some of the things Lisp is good for is: Source-to-source or data-to-data transformation Compilers and other translators Problem-specif... ralphc

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[ANN] pg-dot-lisp version 0.19 13 48 (10/8/2003 9:48:56 AM) comp.lang.lisp pg-dot-lisp lets you access the PostgreSQL object-relational DBMS from Common Lisp. The code implements the client part of the socket-level frontend/backend protocol, rather than providing a wrapper around the ... emarsden (56)

XML with lisp 11 30 (10/14/2003 7:49:17 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello all I would like to extract information from XML using lisp for further processing. Which resources are availalbe for reading XML file either even driven or storing all the information contained in the X... sencion (26)

ILC 2003: some impressions 70 27 (10/15/2003 11:05:35 PM) comp.lang.lisp Just got back from ILC 2003 and I thought I should post some of my notes. My impressions on the conference are mixed. The lead organizer fell ill and despite valiant efforts from some of the other organizers... ppinto (14)

[pre-announce, call for contributors] cl-typesetting 12 24 (10/20/2003 9:14:59 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've not finished cl-typesetting enough to release it yet but I've done enough of the core typesetting engine to start to send it to people wanting to contribute to it. At the beginning of this project I just ... Marc.Battyani (373)

Paul Graham's Road to Lisp! 13 41 (10/21/2003 1:08:40 PM) comp.lang.lisp Check it out: http://alu.cliki.net/pgrtl Confirmed by email from Paul. If you guys thought I was unbearable before, with McCarthy on my laptop and Graham in my survey...fuggedaboutit! Burst of other survey ... ktilton (2220)

Windows version 14 30 (1/3/2004 1:20:23 AM) comp.lang.lisp A friend of mine keeps sending me Lisp information so I thought I would check it out. What is the best "free" version available for Windows (XP to be exact). Bob ... bobx (95)

How would you do this cool Ruby trick in Lisp/CLOS? 46 35 (4/12/2004 2:13:22 AM) comp.lang.lisp This excerpt is from "Dynamic Productivity with Ruby", at http://www.artima.com/intv/tuesday.html >Yukihiro Matsumoto: First of all, you don't have to use that feature. >The most useful application of dynamic... ralphc (25)

Multimethods vs. Multiple Inheritance/Mixins 3 34 (6/25/2004 4:22:21 AM) comp.lang.lisp I'm about to come across my own version of the classic problem where I have different types of data and I will want to draw or render the data different ways. In Common Lisp the obvious way seems to be to hav... ralphc (25)

lisp is winner in DOM parsing contest! 8-] 27 25 (7/12/2004 12:19:03 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, All! i have 3mb long XML document with about 150000 lines (i think it has about 200000 elements there) which i want to parse to DOM to work with. first i thought there will be no problems, but there wer... udodenko3 (70)

First draft of chapter 17 of Practical Common Lisp on web 27 24 (7/12/2004 4:55:22 PM) comp.lang.lisp The topic is packages and as always, I'm interested in any feedback folks have, good, bad, or ugly. This chapter is at: while the main entry point is at: While I'm happy to get reports of typos and su... peter9330 (968)