123-menu.el
Even though I've been using Emacs for years, I still have trouble remembering a lot of the key combinations for commands that I don't use all the time (e.g.: killing and yanking rectangles, bookmarks, etc.). I think Lotus 123 for...
Category: Lisp
Dissent in the Scheme community
Interesting to see that Scheme is moving forward, though not everyone is totally happy with the direction. Arto Bendiken: R5.97RS Scheme Considered Harmful...
Accessing the Yahoo Web Search API from MzScheme
A bit of Scheme code that I was dorking around with a long time ago and never got around to posting. This probably only works in MzScheme since it uses implementation-specific APIs to do HTTP. Here's an example of using it:...
Lisp movies
Here's a page (from a blog that's on my blogroll) which links to two screencasts that show using LispWorks (a Common Lisp implementation on the Mac with a nice IDE) to do HTTP client and server stuff and then to develop a...
The Irony of Paul Graham
I like reading Paul Graham essays from time to time, but sometimes he makes me scratch my head. In his "Revenge of the Nerds", essay he says: "As one data point on the curve, at any rate, if you were to compete with ITA and chose...
links for 2007-04-08
Python for Lisp Programmers Peter Norvig compares and contrasts Python and Lisp (esp. Common Lisp) (tags: python lisp programming)...
links for 2007-03-04
Getting started with ASDF A concise intro to Common Lisp's ASDF packaging system (tags: lisp asdf cl common-lisp) CLiki : cl-yahoo CL-YAHOO is a Common Lisp interface to the Yahoo! API, a networking api which enables searching...