LispNews (no. 7, Jan 22 — Feb 4, 2009)

Releases

• Adrienne released the solutions to Lisp 3rd edition by Horn and Winston, see: NAILS
• clnuplot-0.2.2 is available.
• lift and moptilities.
• Ready Lisp version 20090130 now available.

Announcements

• European Lisp Symposium 2009.
• International Lisp Conference 2009.

Demos

• Parenscript tricks and parallelism.

Discussions

• Why Language Extensibility Matters.
• Any Lisp tutorials?
• How to put tab into format.
• Fexprs more flexible, powerful, easier to learn? See also challenged by Common Lispers.
• Input file with commas.
• What gives you power in CL, that you don’t have in other languages.
• Learning Lisp the hard way.
• Writing a Windows Service in Common Lisp.
• Kent Pitman’s essay on why lisp doesn’t have copying of lists a comment by Xah Lee.
• How to tokenize a string?
• How to COMPILE-FILE without a file?

Jobs

• Two good jobs at ITA Software.
• One job at Accenture.
• One more job.