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[silenius] GSoC 2012 proposal: Frontend/LISP — Open Dylan

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:33:37 GMT

http://opendylan.org/community/gsoc/2012/frontend-lisp.html

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:38:36 GMT

http://ahefner.livejournal.com/20528.html

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] Apr 30, 2012: 5th European Lisp Symposium

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:51:07 GMT

Apr 30–May 1, 2012

And here is the CfP.

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] cl-creditcard

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:58 GMT

a common lisp library providing a common interface to charge creditcards

https://github.com/AccelerationNet/cl-creditcard

[hannes] RIP John McCarthy (poster was created using lisp, of course)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:25:04 GMT

RIP John McCarthy

(poster was created using lisp, of course)

[Reposted from antifuchs via hannes]

[silenius] Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:37:47 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/father_lisp_ai_john_mccarthy_dies/

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] CLiki : PLOKAMI

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:12:25 GMT

PLOKAMI is a libpcap/winpcap interface.

\o/ \o/ \o/

http://cliki.net/PLOKAMI

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] ""You are in a maze of little twisty format directives, all different." "You a..."

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:48:43 GMT

""You are in a maze of little twisty format directives, all different." "You are in a twisty maze of little format directives, all different." "You are in a little maze of twisty format directives, all different."..."

–nyef in #lisp

[Reposted from silenius]

[antifuchs] "<Guthur> anyone know what sort of proof one needs to provide of being a..."

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:56:10 GMT

<Guthur> anyone know what sort of proof one needs to provide of being a student for ELS?

<Xach> Write LISP in all caps, ask for help with implementing "flatten"

–#lisp. It's funny because it's true.

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[antifuchs] Chillax and Protocols « (blog :sykosomatic)

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:44:50 GMT

Excellent summary of how object oriented programming in CL is different form OOP in most other languages.

http://sykosomatic.org/blog/?p=92

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[antifuchs] Land of Lisp- The Music Video! (Watch out for the "Play him off, keyboar...

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:57:47 GMT

Land of Lisp- The Music Video!

(Watch out for the "Play him off, keyboard cat" cameo!)

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[silenius] Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn: LISP (Clojure)

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:49:37 GMT

gotcha

http://colinsteele.org/2010/10/home-at-last-or-the-last-programming-language-i-will-ever-learn-lisp-clojure/

[Reposted from silenius]

[antifuchs] Quicklisp beta information

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:50:58 GMT

The quicklisp beta is now available. Go get it!

Quicklisp aims to make it easy to get started with a rich set of community-developed Common Lisp libraries.

And it does (-:

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[silenius] "Absolutely do not place closing brackets on their own lines.Rationale: The..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:05:28 GMT

"Absolutely do *not* place closing brackets on their own lines.
Rationale: The parentheses grow lonely if their closing brackets are all kept separated and segregated."

–Taylor R. Campbell, in Riastradh's Lisp Style Rules

[Reposted from silenius]

[antifuchs] Xach's QuickLisp intro. A very neat way to load Common Lisp packages.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:47:57 GMT

Xach's QuickLisp intro. A very neat way to load Common Lisp packages.

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[hannes] (Image)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:33:21 GMT

[japhy] via マンガで分かるLisp(Manga Guide to Lisp)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:38:47 GMT

via マンガで分かるLisp(Manga Guide to Lisp)

[hannes] (Image)

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:02:30 GMT

[Reposted from hannes]

[silenius] "I would rather piss off a thousand RMS's than one MCC."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:20:22 GMT

"I would rather piss off a thousand RMS's than one MCC."

–kmachine/k-lisp.txt

[Reposted from silenius]

[luismbo] How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:19:01 GMT

Via @robotickilldozr.

[Reposted from luismbo]

[luismbo] "[...] Simply, I realised that no matter how much time, effort, work or money ..."

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:39:51 GMT

"[...] Simply, I realised that no matter how much time, effort, work or money is plunged into free software (in fairness, this is unlikely to be unique to Lisp) the response from this "new user" market is always going to be "Sucks. Is there even any desire on anyone's part to improve the situation?". Anything you did more than three weeks ago when they started looking at lisp is taken for granted, assumed to be provided by some capricious god in Days of Old and now just part of the natural state of things.

So, no, as far as I'm concerned, there isn't any such desire. These days I write code because (and when) I enjoy it and I think it'll be useful to me or to my fellow hackers; if I decide I'd enjoy something else more, I'll do that instead. The new users can go and fuck themselves. Or they can attempt to set up their Lisp systems using only tools and libraries that were available in 1998 and see how they get on. Good luck guys; I hear that CMUCL has just gained an x86 backend, so you might be able to get it running on Linux. You may need to crosscompile from Alpha, though."

– Modernizing Common Lisp - comp.lang.lisp

[Reposted from luismbo]

[antifuchs] Nov 3, 2009: Berlin Lispers Meetup

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:07:43 GMT

20:00 @ St. Oberholz, Rosenthaler Straße 72a, 10119 Berlin

You are kindly invited to the first "Berlin Lispers Meetup", an informal gathering for anyone interested in Lisp, beer or coffee, organized by Willem Broekema and Hans Hübner. There are no official presentations planned, but everyone is free to bring a laptop and demonstrate some cool work.

[silenius] "Just because we Lisp programmers are better than everyone else is no excuse f..."

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:41:56 GMT

"Just because we Lisp programmers are better than everyone else is no excuse for us to be arrogant."

–Erann Gat

[japhy] (Image)

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:28:02 GMT

[Reposted from pecet]

[antifuchs] Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing (Google Tech Talk by Daniel ...

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:09:07 GMT

Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing (Google Tech Talk by Daniel L. Weinreb)

[Reposted from luismbo]

[luismbo] Sup Dawg: Lisp, by Xach

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:34:09 GMT

Sup Dawg: Lisp, by Xach

[Reposted from antifuchs via luismbo]

[luismbo] Illustrating SBCL's build process

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:47:59 GMT

A while back I read Christophe Rhodes's paper “SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp” which describes SBCL's bootstrap procedures.

The paper includes a bunch of diagrams for each build stage. These were pretty helpful in improving my understanding of the build process. So, I tried to take them a step further and create a single diagram that provides a global overview of the build process:

I'm interested in hearing any comments you might have. If you already know how the build process works, does it make you cringe? If you are vaguely familiar with (parts of) the process, does it provide you with some sort of new insight? Given that I haven't included a legend, does it make any sense at all?

[Reposted from luismbo]

[luismbo] "A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and..."

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:47:19 GMT

"A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine just by power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked."

–AI Koans

[Reposted from luismbo]

[luismbo] ECLM 2009 registration deadline coming up

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:47:06 GMT

The registration deadline for this year's European Common Lisp Meeting is August 15th so if you're interested in attending, you should register soon!

[Reposted from luismbo]

[hannes] Ryan’s Tech Blog » HOWTO: start using lisp in your work environment (part 1)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:56:07 GMT

Neat introduction to getting your workplace to switch to pretty much any alternative tech. Good to see that the switch worked for Ryan (-:

http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2009/07/15/howto-start-using-lisp-in-your-work-environment-part-1/

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[japhy] European Common Lisp Meeting, Hamburg, September 12/13, 2009

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:47:35 GMT

Arthur Lemmens and Edi Weitz are proud to announce the European Common Lisp Meeting 2009. The meeting will consist of a Sunday full of talks on September 13, 2009, with optional dinners on Saturday and Sunday evening.

http://weitz.de/eclm2009/

[hannes] "<nikodemus> we _so_ need a "success stories" page on sbcl.org<hefner..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:57:38 GMT

"<nikodemus> we _so_ need a "success stories" page on sbcl.org
<hefner> nikodemus: to catalog the nethack ascensions of the developers?"

–#lisp

[Reposted from luismbo via antifuchs]

[hannes] "the fastest c implementation is about 2x the speed of a more straightforward ..."

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:56:22 GMT

"the fastest c implementation is about 2x the speed of a more straightforward c implementation (which is much closer to the sbcl effort, unsurprisingly). It's also hard to follow, relies on type munging through pointers and, oh yeah, will just bus error on my mac.[...]

I still don't think it's particularly interesting, but even on the "shootout" benchmark this lisp code is about 3x faster than the champion c code, single threaded. It's also less code, though algorithmically a little more complicated.

–Simon Alexander: Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

[Reposted from antifuchs]

[hannes] On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism -- really worth reading!

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:26:39 GMT

http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf

[Reposted from hannes]

[hannes] C, man, C!

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:11:54 GMT

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/XinC.html

[Reposted from cypher via antifuchs]

[hannes] "modifying surface syntax is for autists"

Sun, 24 May 2009 11:33:43 GMT

"modifying surface syntax is for autists"

–Hans Hübner (HansHuebner) on Twitter

[japhy] "In :o( Smilisp :-), Emotional Programming is implemented via so called ..."

Fri, 22 May 2009 10:30:16 GMT

In :o( Smilisp :-), Emotional Programming is implemented via so called "Emotional Expressions" (E-Exprs). Left parenthesis are replaced with either :-( or :o(, and conversely, right parenthesis can be replaced with either :-) or :o). Although you are free to do whatever you wish, the preferred style is to use :o( and :-) because it increases readability, and is closer to the physical display of emotions when programming in Lisp (there is strong scientific evidence of this provided by many cognitive experiments).

–:o( Smilisp :-)

[silenius] Python-on-lisp project

Mon, 18 May 2009 17:10:15 GMT

Not evaluated yet - but it does sound tasty

Every so often a newbie Lisper pops up on comp.lang.lisp and says "I want to make a web application. Python is really easy to get up and running but Lisp is much harder". Sometimes they get called a troll, but some people will also say they have a valid point.

Python was originally defined to be easily embedded, so you can link it into a C/C++ program as a dynamically linked library (DLL). Lisp's common foreign function interface (CFFI) lets you call into linked libraries from lisp. Python-on-lisp puts these two pieces together, so that you can call python from lisp. This is a two way bridge, so python can return its results back to lisp. Crucially, this makes python's rather extensive libraries available from within common lisp.

http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/

[Reposted from silenius]

[silenius] muSE - muvee Symbolic Expressions

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:53:36 GMT

A small footprint embeddable open-source Scheme dialect.

http://muvee-symbolic-expressions.blogspot.com/

[Reposted from silenius]

[japhy] Day of the Triffords (Live Lisp coding of music and visuals)

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:19:45 GMT

Day of the Triffords (Live Lisp coding of music and visuals)

[Reposted from cypher via brightbyte]

Toe nail clippings

[silenius] GSoC 2012 proposal: Frontend/LISP — Open Dylan

[silenius] Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES

[silenius] Apr 30, 2012: 5th European Lisp Symposium

[silenius] cl-creditcard

[hannes] RIP John McCarthy (poster was created using lisp, of course)

[silenius] Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died

[silenius] CLiki : PLOKAMI

[silenius] ""You are in a maze of little twisty format directives, all different." "You a..."

[antifuchs] "<Guthur> anyone know what sort of proof one needs to provide of being a..."

[antifuchs] Chillax and Protocols « (blog :sykosomatic)

[antifuchs] Land of Lisp- The Music Video! (Watch out for the "Play him off, keyboar...

[silenius] Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn: LISP (Clojure)

[antifuchs] Quicklisp beta information

[silenius] "Absolutely do *not* place closing brackets on their own lines.Rationale: The..."

[antifuchs] Xach's QuickLisp intro. A very neat way to load Common Lisp packages.

[hannes] (Image)

[japhy] via マンガで分かるLisp(Manga Guide to Lisp)

[hannes] (Image)

[silenius] "I would rather piss off a thousand RMS's than one MCC."

[luismbo] How a Common Lisp Programmer Views Users of Other Languages

[luismbo] "[...] Simply, I realised that no matter how much time, effort, work or money ..."

[antifuchs] Nov 3, 2009: Berlin Lispers Meetup

[silenius] "Just because we Lisp programmers are better than everyone else is no excuse f..."

[japhy] (Image)

[antifuchs] Lisp for High-Performance Transaction Processing (Google Tech Talk by Daniel ...

[luismbo] Sup Dawg: Lisp, by Xach

[luismbo] Illustrating SBCL's build process

[luismbo] "A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and..."

[luismbo] ECLM 2009 registration deadline coming up

[hannes] Ryan’s Tech Blog » HOWTO: start using lisp in your work environment (part 1)

[japhy] European Common Lisp Meeting, Hamburg, September 12/13, 2009

[hannes] "<nikodemus> we _so_ need a "success stories" page on sbcl.org<hefner..."

[hannes] "the fastest c implementation is about 2x the speed of a more straightforward ..."

[hannes] On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism -- really worth reading!

[hannes] C, man, C!

[hannes] "modifying surface syntax is for autists"

[japhy] "In :o( Smilisp :-), Emotional Programming is implemented via so called ..."

[silenius] Python-on-lisp project

[silenius] muSE - muvee Symbolic Expressions

[japhy] Day of the Triffords (Live Lisp coding of music and visuals)

[silenius] "Absolutely do not place closing brackets on their own lines.Rationale: The..."