Introduction Common Lisp Quick Reference is a free booklet with short descriptions of the thousand or so symbols defined in the ANSI standard. It comes with a comprehensive index. This rather humble effort is by no means meant to rival … Read more
Introduction A couple years ago, I was teaching React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that there were a handful of things that kept catching students off guard. People kept falling into the same pits! In this tutorial, … Read more
Much has been written on Common Lisp; there is rarely one year without someone proclaming the death of the language and how nobody uses it anymore. And yet it is still here, so something must have been done right. Common … Read more
1 Introduction Once upon a time, there were many music composition software packages, mostly written in Common LISP. To name a few I know, Common Music, Symbolic Composer (not related to the Symbolics Lisp Machine). Common Music is still available in … Read more
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Lisp has been supporting the world’s most complex applications since 1958. And Lisp has grown a lot since then. So if you or someone you know harbors fears or concerns about Lisp because of something learned in a class or … Read more
Keywords: I’ve been following this flamage about CL. I thought I’d add a few commentsto the fray. It isn’t true that lexical variable references are slow in the interpreter.The trick is to allow the interpreter to do a pre-execution pass … Read more
I’ve encountered Object-Oriented Programming when I was learning Python (which is my first language). I’ve struggled with it because the paradigm is not as obvious as using functions and structures in C. It finally clicked for me when I was … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots, and from fresh and saltwater. The researchers also genetically engineered the fungus to amplify its … Read more
This post explains my reasoning for migrating from Common Lisp to Julia as my primary programming language, after a few people have asked me to elaborate. This article is the product of my experiences and opinions, and may not reflect … Read more