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.