[pro] eXtreme Media Lisp (XMLisp) 0.4 for OS X: supporting GLSL shaders, multi touch, ...

2010-12-22 Thread Alexander Repenning
Dear Friends, just in time for the break a little something to play with. eXtreme Media Lisp (XMLisp) 0.4 is released for OS X and is now supporting GLSL shaders, multi touch, ... Download a binary of the source http://code.google.com/p/xmlisp/ eXtreme Media Lisp (XMLisp) is open source, L

Re: [pro] How to interact with a running lisp instance?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Weinreb
Yes, this kind of thing is essential if you want to design a system that stays up. I have another fun thing along these lines. When you start a request that comes into the server, you assign it an integer. As the handling of the request reaches transaction boundaries (transactions on an underly

Re: [pro] Modularity for subclassing in Common Lisp

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Weinreb
Anton, These are all very good questions. I'm going to try to write up an essay about these topics suitable for posting on my blog, since there's so much to say. The use of packages that I have been advocating here is not used a lot in practice in Common Lisp, but the more I think about it, the