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dcg peek possible? 3 44 (2/24/2010 5:37:50 PM) comp.lang.prolog Environment: SWI-Prolog 5.8.2 on Debian 2.6.25 Question: I am using SWI-Prolog DCG with success but I was wondering whether it is possible to create a grammar that is able to peek ahead without consuming the t... vanekl

doctorate 9 35 (6/6/2008 4:57:10 PM) comp.lang.lisp Yesterday, Dr. John McCarthy, 80 years of age, received an honorary doctorate in science from Harvard. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/06.05/01-honorands.html ... vanekl

Push/Pop for list tail 40 48 (2/27/2008 12:03:39 PM) comp.lang.lisp What is the recommended way to Push/Pop for the tail end of lists? I've come up with the following. I know the pop-end implementation isn't the most efficient, but simple imp is important to me, too. BTW, is th... vanekl

Can anybody recommend a free c.l.l NG feed? 4 43 (1/18/2008 5:34:56 PM) comp.lang.lisp Gmane doesn't carry c.l.l., and I'm no longer at university, and the GG web interface is tiring. I don't mind a few ads as long as they don't get in the way. Too much work to write a scraper. TIA -- The most in... vanekl

Arc #2 4 39 (1/15/2008 11:22:03 PM) comp.lang.lisp The biggest news of the past 24 hours (no, it's not Steve's MBA): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98297 (see pg's post) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98360 I hope PG puts as much thought into the to... vanekl

NIL is not of type CONS 151 37 (12/17/2007 8:03:49 PM) comp.lang.lisp Is this supposed to throw an error when setq is called? In SBCL 1.0.12.34 it does, in Clisp 2.41 it doesn't. Function runs w/o error when the "declare" is commented out. [Test function is deliberately stripped ... vanekl

[ANN] NP 6 27 (2/8/2006 1:36:01 PM) comp.lang.ruby If anybody else finds NP-complete problems interesting then you may want to check out my new Ruby extension. You can find the extension, ext_np, at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=835 The description follow... Lou

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Catch & throw, and timing. 6 34 (10/28/2009 3:18:58 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hello, I'm trying to solve the exercise 9 from the book "Ansi Common Lisp", that says that: Exercise 9 The program in Figure 3.12 continues to search as the first complete path works its way through the que... shanatorio (14)

how can you tell inquisitive newbie from a troll? 4 30 (10/29/2009 11:02:41 PM) comp.lang.lisp I was bit shocked when somebody on this list called me trolling scumbag. I do not want to start flame wars, and if others do think that asking naive newbie questions is trolling and find ruby.object email offen... ruby.object (152)

higher order procedures 2 55 (11/2/2009 4:32:10 PM) comp.lang.lisp Can anyone provide me a link or resources that will help me better understand higher order procedures? the SICP book still leaves me in the clouds. david ... transkawa (11)

grabbing key presses 25 37 (11/12/2009 11:48:08 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I didn't give up yet. I was a bit busy with my day job so didn't have chance to post anything for a while. At the moment I am trying to write a Linux console application. I already have worked out how to ... ruby.object (152)

[ANN] Filtered functions 173 63 (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 (3902)

How many people use or used Lisp? 39 38 (3/15/2010 3:46:03 AM) comp.lang.lisp How many people use Lisp (all dialects combined) today? My guess: 3000, based on the membership on various Lisp forums. Anyone with better guess? When Lisp was the most popular, in relative or absolute numbers... email6538 (26)

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)

lightweight database 53 23 (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 (981)

strange behaviour #3 15 177 (6/22/2010 8:21:32 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi. I have this piece of code: --------------------------------------------------------------------- (defun start-page () (cl-who:with-html-output-to-string (*standard-output* nil :indent t) (:html... Haris

Functions as data 19 105 (10/25/2010 10:14:12 PM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I'm still trying to grapple with the lisp's "functions as data" concept. I've been reading some blogs and I found this one: http://www.lurklurk.org/cpp_clos.html I think it's a very good article. ... Andy