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December 2004

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

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Wednesday, 1 December: New CVS CLISP offers 4GB heaps/images and full MOP support

• The CLISP announced Scieneer CL Allegro CL cite Pascal Costanza AspectL commented here

• On c.l.l., Peter Seibel has posted "the book" extensive background originally says

• On c.l.l. Rainer Joswig posted Allegro CL LispWorks OpenMCL MCL CLISP Corman CL ABCL CLICC WCL ECL ThinLisp CLISP Allegro CL Allegro CL LispWorks CMUCL SBCL Corman CL Golden Common Lisp Allegro CL LispWorks MCL OpenMCL LispWorks CLISP GCL CMUCL SBCL Allegro CL LispWorks ECL Scieneer Common Lisp OpenMCL Corman CL Scieneer Common Lisp Allegro CL CLISP SBCL ECL Lisp operating system Xerox Symbolics TI Movitz Pascal Bourguignon embedded as a shared-library

• The "Lemonodor Effect" is to Lisp sites what the "Slashdot Effect" gets mentioned lemonodor shoots up John Wiseman

• Well, I guess nested backquotes "x considered harmful" "Quasiquotation in Lisp" Jens Axel Søgaard On Lisp explained on c.l.l. backquotes defmacro assert every let dotimes length push gensym if every list progn let let mapcar lambda defmacro assert every let dotimes length push gensym if every list progn list list mapcar lambda list let mapcar lambda defun defun let defmacro assert every let dotimes length push gensym if every list progn list mapcar lambda let mapcar lambda Drew McDermott's YTools manual for YTools

• Conrad Barski has written comic book about Lisp

• I recently bought a 20-inch iMac G5 is selling off wild speculation for others Allegro CL CLISP CMUCL OpenMCL LispWorks SBCL Emacs 21.3 SLIME AppleScript Win32 script Zach

• It was announced LispWorks recent conversion OpenMCL MCL breakdown

• I previously posted Edi Weitz .NET asking Eliza program PAIP his posting LispWorks Corman CL Allegro CL

• On Lisp those before listed at $224.99 Apparently

• There is an old saying: "Change is the only constant" was announced company I work for second time my career Johnny Walker

• in his essay "Beating the Averages" "programmable programming language" Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Metacase their resources DSL tools in Visual Studio the debate

• Edi Weitz has announced RDNZL here here http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2004-December/002877.html

• On c.l.l., a reader asked provided

• When I posted about LispWorks SLIME AppleScript Win32 script blog good explanation me know noted

• In Ian Bickings blog, he has a posting on "The Challenge of Metaprogramming" posted previously

• I've been discussing Domain-Specific Languages metaprogramming here here "Domain-Specific Languages: An Annotated Bibliography" "Notable Design Patterns for Domain-Specific Languages" Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (PAIP) Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer Amazon link "Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design" referenced

• Daniel Barlow's ASDF previously asked about showed XMLS my earlier posting XMLS in-package defvar defun not equal enough-namestring namestring defmethod let mapcar lambda loop return merge-pathnames make-pathname pathname-type merge-pathnames enough-namestring return

• I remember back in the mid-1980's when the Band Aid record "Do They Know It's Christmas" help out on an individual basis

• Patrick Logan expresses tsunami catastrophe in Asia link tsunamihelp.blogspot.com this tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

• Successful Lisp online Markus Fix's bookfix.com Practical Common Lisp

• Jonathan Bartlett mentioned on c.l.s. developerWorks "Use continuations to develop complex Web applications - A programming paradigm to simplify MVC for the Web" 2004-05-21: Implementing call/cc in CL 2004-04-04: Modal (Continuation-based) Web Server Framework example 2004-02-03: Comparison of two continuation based web server frameworks 2003-11-22: Continuation-based Web Framework for CL 2003-11-14: Article about Seaside - a continuation-based Web Framework in Smalltalk 2003-11-08: Comment about Seaside Web Framework 2003-10-13: Some comments on Continuation-based Web Frameworks 2003-09-28: Java/Smalltalk Web Framework comparison 2003-09-27: Elevator Pitch: Continuations for Web Apps 2003-09-25: No good elevator pitch 2003-09-08: More Continuation stuff 2003-09-04: Chris Double's Scheme Web Framework 2003-09-02: Web Interactions paper 2003-09-01: Continuations and CL Cookbook mods 2003-08-31: Continuation State Issues 2003-08-28: Continuation-based web servers posted later UnCommon Web discussion LL4 conference "Continuations continued: the REST of the computation" also available

• It's time for the last post of 2004. Zach Beane has already created a 2004 Lisp Timeline 2004 Roundup here here here January: What is the best Open Source Lisp? here Setting up Emacs for PLT Scheme VisiCalc-like development in Lisp Linux written in Lisp! What is Lisp best suited for? February: Lisp and the future of development environments at the EclipseCon conference The 3 Worlds of Lisp Development How to make money with Lisp Dynamically changing running Lisp code here here New Alternatives for Developing CL code with Emacs March: Using SLIME/Emacs with Allegro CL on Windows Reconnecting to a running Lisp with SLIME Configuring SLIME for 3 Win32 CL Implementations Lisp is slow (NOT!) here Why Learn Lisp? Using LispWorks Personal with Emacs/SLIME on Windows April: Common Lisp is the Borg of programming languages Modal (Continuation-based) Web Server Framework example Modifying Object behavior in CL Coming to Lisp Parallel Computing in Lisp Thinking in Java/Lisp May: Code Walkers in Lisp Online sources of On Lisp Lisp Books Implementing call/cc in CL Nesting backquotes CL SAX XML Parser Out-Performs Java Xerces Funcallable Macros June: Using MySql with Allegro CL here here Symbolics LispM's - What might have been CL and Tail-Call Elimination CL proven to be the best programming language ;-) Gregory Chaitin, Math, Philosophy and Lisp Genetic Programming in Common Lisp SOAP Web Services in CL CL to Java here here here Debugging Approaches in CL here CL Implementation Benchmarks on Win2000 July: Setting Up SLIME for Win32 CL Implementations Hackers & Painters August: Mandelbrot Set ASCII art Initializing structures in CL using BOA Constructors Object Prevalence in CL Printing CLOS class graphs here September: AllegroCache - Object-Prevalence++ Allegro Prolog - A Prolog in Lisp here Lisp .Net here here Another CL to Java option - Lisplets here October: Loop extensibility Elephant Object Database now works on Win32 Araneida web server now works on Win32 CL HTML template languages CL Web Server Options Lisppaste - an interesting program CL Symbols here Introduction to CL development environments Surviving Emacs here Lisp Success Stories Trivial Socket programming in CL November: XSLT-like processing in CL Using the Apache Web Server with CL on Win32 here Re-building stale FASL files after ACL upgrade ACL 7.0 is smokin! Locating ASDF packages on Win32 How do people develop code in CL? December: CL Implementations Nested Backquotes considered harmful OS X - My new Lisp platform The Lisp Difference Using LispWorks Personal with Emacs/SLIME on Mac OS X Metaprogramming is hard DSL and Metaprogramming Resources ASDF Build Directories Use continuations to develop complex Web applications

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