LispNews (no. 3, Dec 18 — 24, 2008)

Releases

• ECL 8.12 is released.

Demos

• XCVB, growth hormone for Lisp? François-René Rideau announces first public release of XCVB.

Discussions

• Type system and type inference in CL.
• How to load a file into the package?
• Recovering the ALU Wiki.
• What is the best way to start LISP on OS X Leopard?
• How to crosscompile on Linux to Windows?
• Jens Teich asks how to compare and highlight differences in nested lists?
• Mark Tarver asks are commercial Lisps faster than SBCL?
• MishoM asks whether making Common Lisp popular is possible.
• A message from the ALU Board of Directors regarding the ALU Wiki.

LispNews (no. 2, Dec 10 — 17, 2008)

Releases

• Jerome Baum releases Erlang-like threads in Common Lisp implementation.
• New Allegro CL module that provides access to Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) API.

Demos

• LispForum.com members tops 450.
• Light Lispful Linux — Linux live CD for people willing to try Lisp without installing anything.
• Kaz Kylheku demonstrates PKG, a Lexicons-killer read macro.
• Alexander Lehmann publishes a series of screencasts “Writing a simple raytracer in Common Lisp”.
• Jake Voytko demonstrates Evolving Genetic Algorithms in Lisp.

Discussions

• Scott asks how to process a sequence.
• Chris Riesbeck asks what is the correct result of `(,@10).
• Denes Cselovs asks how to optimize interpolation.
• How to implement Clojure-style hash accessors in CL?
• Ron Garret asks how to get a list of names of slots in a class.
• Albert Krewinkel sparcs a discussion on the programming style.
• Bob Felts asks what are the best-practices for reading binary files?

Jobs

• 2 new Lisp jobs 1 2.

LispNews (no. 1, Dec 7 — 10, 2008)

Releases

• Plexippus XPath released — this is the first public release of the pure Common Lisp XPath implementation. See also the examples.
• Hunchentoot is reported to be working on ECL on Win32.
• Lexicons 2.0 (beta) released.
• cl-php version 1.2.1 released — LLGPL licensed library to simplify developing Web-applications using Common Lisp.

Demos

• Fast and dirty implementation of Photofont renderer in Common Lisp.
• Fun with CFFI and wxWidgets.

Discussions

• Back to the future: Lisp as a Base for Statistical Computing System.
• dan asks: What websites use Lisp?
• Rainer Joswig asks about interpretation of the AND type specifier in CL.
• jrwats suggests a coding challenge.
• Bill Clementson: Understanding SLIME.

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