SBCL and SLIME a no-go on Ubuntu
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…)...
Category: Lisp
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp
Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp Lisp is not an acceptable LISP. Not for any value of Lisp. There's nothing magical about this, nothing partisan. If Lisp were acceptable, then we'd all be using it. Very interesting...
Short introduction to UnCommon Web programming – Yikes!
UCW intro Holy crap - that's a lot of dependencies and a lot of work just to set it up for a simple tutorial. When I saw the title, I thought it might be a fun little tutorial to try, but when I saw what was involved...yikes, I...
Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP
Eric Kidd has an interesting post entitled "Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP". As it turns out, Ruby compares well as a functional language, and it fakes macros better than I’d thought.... Now, given a choice between a...
Accessing C functions from CLISP
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...
camel-case-from-underscored
Continuing Marc's exploration of Lisp, today we present a Scheme function that might be marginally useful: (more…)...
The Little Schemer
I saw "The Little Schemer" a few days ago at my local Barnes & Noble so I bought it and started reading it. I've read 8 out of the 10 chapters so far and here are my thoughts... (more…)...