Back from Paris/London
Monday, September 13, 2004
Just got back from an 11-day trip to Paris and London (mostly Paris,
only 2 days in London to visit friends at the end of the trip). I
hadn't been to Europe for 25 years (not since my "mis-spent youth"
when I bummed around Europe and the Middle East for about 8 years). I
got to "dust off" my school boy French (last used when cutting grapes
with local French and North African Arab workers in the vineyards of Montpellier
about 30 years ago) and was pleased that I could at least make myself
understood in the language still.
The trip was a wedding anniversary, so I didn't do any Lisp-related things on this trip; however, I will have to
save that for my next trip (ILC2005 is tentatively supposed to be in
Paris!). In any case, it definitely won't be another 25 years
before I return to Europe again!
In the meantime, there have been a number of interesting Lisp-related
developments while I've been away:
- In addition to the Object Prevalence options I mentioned in my earlier post, Elephant (an object DB for CL) has been released.
- Paul Graham has a new essay on The Age of the Essay.
- Christophe Rhodes has made some progress on making SBCL Unicode-aware while Nikodemus Siivola has just finished work on a new STEP implementation for SBCL.
- Krzysztof Wlodarczyk has a new Lisp IDE for Windows, based on clisp: Visual CLisp (via lemonodor).
- Reini Urban has just about completed his paper on Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces (via lemonodor).
- SLIME is now an "official" 1.0 release.
- Oliver Steele reckons that Python is becoming Lisp.
- There is a new multiprocessing implementation in ACL 7.0 that looks interesting.
- The October issue of Dr Dobbs Journal has an article by Gene Michael Stover on HTML Templates for Lisp. His collection of Lisp articles is also available on his web site.
- A Scheme Cookbook was announced.
