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Why not to give up (off-topic) 76 30 (3/19/2012 11:01:13 AM) comp.lang.lisp I've been thinking that I should just give up on CLL as the trolls are clearly winning at this point in a way that I don't think has happened before: not only is there a lot of noise from trolls and people (... Tim

Small victories 15 29 (2/12/2012 10:05:28 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've been working on a contract whose project has just gone live. It's an important system for the company concerned and it has nothing to do with Lisp of course (it's the usual enterprise crapware). Needle... Tim

John McCarthy 12 27 (10/24/2011 11:46:23 PM) comp.lang.lisp Has died. --tim (no doubt many other people are posting similar articles, but I can't see any here) ... Tim

Stuck 1 17 (9/27/2011 10:28:07 AM) comp.lang.lisp There's some science fiction story which ends up with someone chasing someone else in a spaceship. The chaser's spaceship will eventually catch the chasee's, but "eventually" means possibly thousands or mil... Tim

Idiot's guide to Scheme macros? 32 33 (3/15/2011 6:03:23 PM) comp.lang.scheme Hi, does anyone know of a guide to Scheme macros (specifically to Racket's: I am not sure how standardised macros are now, though I know they used not to be) for someone very familiar with CL macros? I don't... Tim

Re: Getting started with Lisp? 31 39 (3/10/2011 7:28:31 PM) comp.lang.lisp On 2011-03-10 17:46:27 +0000, localhost@example.org said: > it's how to find comparative information > for Lisp beginners. There's too much information in a way. If you mean "information about how to pick an ... Tim

LMFS backups 0 57 (1/15/2011 12:32:04 PM) comp.lang.lisp Not quite on-topic but does anyone know of anything that will read LMFS backup format from Symbolics machines. I'm not actually sure how I made the backups but it would have been with the standard utility, ... Tim

Creating a root CA to encrypt mail 1 47 (10/14/2010 2:15:36 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, does anyone know what the right process is to do this? I'd like to run my own tiny root CA so I can issue certificates which let me encrypt mail (when exchanging mail with people who also have certifica... Tim

S/MIME mail signatures and encryption (for Leopard) 0 35 (3/14/2010 6:35:50 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I want to be able to sign and occasionally encrypt mail I send to & from my work address - basically so I can be sure nothing sensitive goes over the open network. I'm using Mac mail at home and Thunderbird ... Tim

Firefox hyperspec search addon 3 94 (1/25/2010 9:01:24 PM) comp.lang.lisp This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ----------------13369957602110350659 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, does anyone know of a Fi... Tim

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special var symbols as function arguments 4 25 (4/29/2012 7:20:55 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi I just saw the following code in PAIP while trying to reread it now that I can read CL :) (defvar *state* nil ...) (defvar *ops* ...) .... (defun gps (*state* goals *ops*) ....) I have never written code... spam_lisp.linux (88)

re: Another code review perhaps? 2 34 (4/30/2012 9:55:34 AM) comp.lang.lisp Martin Pomije wrote: > This is my solution to Ex. 6 on p. 97 of Paul Graham's "ANSI Common > Lisp" > > > Define iterative and recursive versions of a function that takes an > object and a list, and retur... w_a_x_man (2778)

re: Please help 3 27 (5/1/2012 1:21:04 AM) comp.lang.lisp "Private Oracle" wrote: > I'm new to LISP and I've got a real bugger of > a problem here : I need to define a function > which duplicates every occurance of a given > element in a given list. Suppose this ... w_a_x_man (2778)

PCL chapter 3, printing problem 12 25 (5/1/2012 5:13:28 AM) comp.lang.lisp WANTED: to print the CD database, as given in example of chapter 3 WHAT I GOT: it prints. PROBLEM: output is not properly formatted as per the explanation If you see clearly you will notice that all output i... sunrise2 (598)

equivalent PERL construct in LISP? 12 28 (5/1/2012 7:18:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp I'm use clisp. I'm quite experienced with PERL. A common pattern I use is: my $list = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); foreach my $i ($list) { print "$i\n"; } The "foreach" loop assigns each value of $list to $i in turn.... mikee2856 (42)

Re: Problem with iteration 3 25 (5/2/2012 9:09:25 AM) comp.lang.lisp Erik Naggum wrote: > * Raffael Cavallaro > | (defun my-reverse (a-list) > | (do ((n (- 1) (incf n)) (result '() (cons (nth n a-list) result))) > | ((= n (- (length a-list) 1)) result ))) > ... w_a_x_man (2778)

clisp, regexp:match, and subgroups? 6 19 (5/2/2012 4:49:52 PM) comp.lang.lisp Thank you everyone on my previous (loop...) question. I understand now more than I did. My next stumbling stone is (regexp:match...). I have this function where it is matching a pattern. I'm trying to extra... mikee2856 (42)

Slow learner 2 24 (5/6/2012 6:04:15 PM) comp.lang.lisp Thirteen months ago I posted about a simple game I was writing to help me learn lisp. Here's what I've learned since then. http://wobh.org/Projects/StarMaze/starmaze.lisp (Note to future: URL subject to chan... wobh (18)

Learning Lisp #5 118 53 (5/7/2012 10:44:45 AM) comp.lang.lisp Recently started learning lisp, firstly, I have to admit I really do love all the paranthesis. But there are other features of my old language that I do miss. Is lisp frequently used to develop web pages, if s... photonpackets (1)

Re: Extended loop macro 6 36 (5/11/2012 2:59:11 AM) comp.lang.lisp Antonio Menezes Leitao wrote: > Edi Weitz writes: > > (loop with scheme-char-seen-p = nil > > for c across string > > when (or (char-not-greaterp #\a c #\z) > > (digit-char-p c)... w_a_x_man (2778)