Just for the heck of it, I installed SBCL from a package. Worked fine. But then I tried to use it in SLIME (latest version from CVS). No go. (more…)...
It's pretty impressive how easy it is to call C functions from Lisp, once you know the proper FFI voodoo. For example, this is how I accessed the standard C library function time from CLISP on my Linux system. (ffi:def-call-out...