Hi Robert,
The answer to your original question appears to be no, so the conversation
turned to brainstorming solutions. However your question did not provide a
clear scope and purpose or measure of fitness for such a development.
Answers to the following questions may help focus this conversa
On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Laughing Water wrote:
My only request would be that if this discussion moves elsewhere, I’d like to
know where it goes so I can follow it.
I'll second that. I really value the experience and opinions of this
community, and appreciate the occasional random news update.
Hi Ken,
I think music is a great way to engage a wider audience of potential
developers. It has a wider appeal and lower barrier to entry than many
other programming activities.
Having seen kids fire up a web browser to do "Scratch programming", I'm
convinced that a web-based platform is th
Hi Marco,
I would just rely on the IEEE 754 values and define constants for
convenience. Negative zero is an artifact of floating-point calculations,
not a symbol in math. Don't forget that many values are classified as NaN
(common exponent, many fractions).
C defines fpclassify() and rela
Hi all,
Nick is pointing to a big elephant in the room.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Nick Levine wrote:
The website at lisp.org contained a photo of John McCarthy (and nothing else)
since the week he died six years ago. What's the message?
In contrast take a quick look at (say) python.org, a site d
Hi Nick,
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Nick Levine wrote:
On 12 Oct 2017, at 04:54, Daniel Herring wrote:
I just included you on an email to some likely ALU website contacts. We'll see
how they respond.
Thanks, and you wrote in that email: "No one ever followed up with me in regards to
Hi Nick,
I just included you on an email to some likely ALU website contacts.
We'll see how they respond.
Regarding the ILC content, I found backups containing a most if not all
materials for ILC 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011. I should
also have the contents for 2012 squirrel
Hi Don,
System configuration, and configuration of dependencies in particular, is
in some sense an AI-complete problem. There is no general-purpose
solution. Every solution has tradeoffs. At the end of the day, some end
user may need to tweak something.
My impression is that that Quicklis
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Antoniotti Marco wrote:
I am trying to come up with a name for a referencing/dereferencing
operator.
There are a bunch of names for such things: reference, address, pointer,
index, iterator, register, mark, tag, location, ID, name, alias, link,
key, position, slot, hole,
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014, Attila Lendvai wrote:
what are the downsides of connecting to the NDK (android C API)? how
much of android is not available through the NDK?
When I tried using Lisp on Android a couple years ago, the going was rough
to say the least. Today, there are a handful of Scheme
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
I expected that something more sensible could be agreed upon.
The lack of optimization in CLOS has long been a sore point.
Here are some related reads.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.lisp/qN6U1f-mE_g/discussion
http://common-l
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Pascal Costanza wrote:
Common Lisp in general has a more traditional performance model, in that it
relies on staticish compilation for performance, rather than dynamic
compilation as is done in Java, JavaScript, Lua, etc. With dynamic compilation,
such
issues may be easie
Regarding the original question, take a look at cl-pdf.asd. CL projects
needing configuration capabilities have devised various approaches; but
the current standard is to have a user-editable asd file, and cl-pdf is
one of the more sophisticated examples.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Zach Beane wrot
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Pascal Costanza wrote:
On 11 Jun 2011, at 21:25, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
But it's way to late to redesign Common Lisp.
No need to be pessimistic. We're still way ahead of everybody else. ;)
Actually, I think its nearing time to design CL's successor. (Each
generatio
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Kazimir Majorinc wrote:
> "DEFVAR and DEFPARAMETER do the combined service of
>
> - in some implementations, recording the "definitional home" of the
> variable
> - declaring the indicated variable special in compiler and runtime
> - assigning the variable (either condition
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Mark H. David wrote:
> Does anyone know of any CL libraries for dealing with Microsoft Word files?
> Tools for creating them, reading from them, parsing them, converting
> them to plain text or other formats, things like that?
I suspect that RDNZL might provide the best resul
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, William Halliburton wrote:
I know I'm late to the parade but if you need to write grammars that can be
easily augmented by other people without them needing to know much, if any,
lisp I can recommend the ebnf parser written by Daniel Herring. Its onion of
macros ex
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Hans Hübner wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Vladimir Sedach wrote:
The consultants page on the ALU wiki (http://wiki.alu.org/Consultant)
seems out of date. I'd like to have somewhere to point managers or
business owners to where they can get professional-level help fo
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Scott McKay wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 4:57 PM, aeri...@xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>> On 17 dec 2010, at 22:15, Eli Naeher wrote:
>>> Right now I usually have (under screen) one instance of Emacs for
>>> personal projects (for which I try to use the latest Slime and Swank)
>>> and o
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
> Smalltalk didn't even try. CLOS, I believe, does not try and there is
> not an idiomatic way to do it. The only language I know that makes a
> good stab in this direction is C++, which has "public", "protected",
> and "private". Whatever else you say
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