• ZS3 1.0.7 is released.
• CLAZY is cleaned up a bit.

Announcements

• Next Boston Lisp Meeting: 2009-03-30 1800 at MIT 34-401B – Carl Eastlund on Modular ACL2.

Discussions

• What open source implementation of Lisp do you prefer and why?.
• Sequential sharpsign-plusses?.
• John Backus and function level programming.
• SBCL Slime and emacsW32.
• help with function please.

Jobs

• A number of Lisp and Lisp-related jobs: 1 2 3 4.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

More to come…

Announcement: There will be a break for the Christmas and New Year holidays.