I have eaten a lot of food in my time (as mean-spirited readers are wont to tell me in the Facebook comments of my stories on budget items), but I am not a connoisseur by any stretch of the imagination. … Read more
Considering resignation as maintainer Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info Sun Jan 9 21:53:46 UTC 2022 I have discovered that Stas Bokuraev is continuing to refuse to update Edi packages to modern ASDF system-naming. This would not be bad in and … Read more
#CommonLisp #Lisp Let’s consider the following function: (defun make-adder (x huge-p) (lambda (y) (+ x y (if huge-p 1000 0)))) The result of calling (MAKE-ADDER 10) closes over HUGE-P and makes a runtime check for its value. CL-USER> (disassemble (make-adder … Read more
2020-01-21 – By Robert Elder Do you notice anything wrong with the following Linux command? find . -name *.jpg If you don’t you’re not alone. Right now, as I’m typing this, 4 of the top 4 Google results for “find … Read more
I’ve written a few shell scripts in my time and have read many more, and I see the same issues cropping up again and again (unfortunately even in my own scripts sometimes). While there are lots of shell programming pitfalls, … Read more
By Lucie Laumonier What were the most common jobs in a late medieval city? In this piece, we’ll look at the case of fifteenth-century Montpellier, a city located in the South of France. Established in the late tenth century, Montpellier … Read more
One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you’ll flash back to the same meeting you had about … Read more
GitHub – rabbibotton/clog: CLOG – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab … Read more
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types so that the optimiser can provide more efficient code. The following examples are with … Read more
SLIME, an IDE that leverages the power of Common Lisp and the extensibility of Emacs, provides a development environment ahead of anything else. You can leave the write-compile-debug cycle behind. Everything is interactive: try your code on the REPL as … Read more