LispNews (no. 6, Jan 15 — Jan 21, 2009)

Announcements

• Talks for the international Lisp conference.

Demos

• plot-widget on demo on Allegro CL.

Discussions

• A Symbolics Lisp machine is being sold.
• Lisp on the JVM – a list of Lisp implementations on the JVM.
• Processing XML-formatted documents in CL.
• Do two uses of backquote return the same result?
• The preference of protected-form and cleanup-form in unwind-protect.
• How to efficiently parse a CSV file into lists?
• How to access several slot values in a single dispatch?
• Simple XML Serialization for a hashtable.
• How to create function args from a lisp.
• A nice algorithms question from Kenneth Tilton.

LispNews (no. 5, Jan 8 — Jan 14, 2009)

Releases

• ITA Software will start distributing software for the Free Software World (Qitab – the CL.net project).
• ANN: Mudball updates.

Demos

• Gruff – and RDF graph browser from Franz Inc.

Discussions

• Lisp meetings coming in the next week(s).
• A Loop curiosity
• How to build ECL on Windows?
• Unicode and CL compatibility.
• What ARM Lisp compilers are there?
• What Lisp to use on Windows?
• How to check whether there is ASDF installed?
• “Lisp server pages” implementations.
• Performance differences between struct and CLOS.
• Which graduate program uses Lisp as research tool?

Jobs

• New LispJobs: 1 and 2.

LispNews (no. 4, Dec 25, 2008 — Jan 7, 2009)

Releases

• SBCL 1.0.24 released.
• The new version of the GNU Scientific Library for Lisp (GSLL) is available.

Demos

• Kadir Pekel shows how to install Hunchentoot behind Nginx.
• Dave shows how to use Lisp, CouchDB and cl-couch.
• The Jake says: Everything you need to get started with Common Lisp.
• Rob Warnok shows basic tips for Lisp development in Vim and Mikael Jansson explains how to get Lisp forms arguments in Vim.

Discussions

• Joe Marshall discusses advantages of Lisp and Scheme for developing DSL. Tlareywi asks whether you know any languages implemented on Lisp?
• …A dumb mistake involving closures… — optimization tips.
• Optimizing big array sorting and simple integer arithmetic.
• Making Lisp Popular is still one of the most active topics.
• Budden asks what is the best way to implement a virtual file system in Common Lisp.
• Nils M Holm wants to share his Lisp books.
• Mariano Montone asks how to access slot’s metaobject through MOP.
• Is it possible to serialize functions/clozures in Common Lisp?
• Bidirectional Streams.
• Trittweiler about his talk to the Munich Lisp Group about SLIME.

Jobs

• 2 new Lisp jobs 1 and 2.