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.