Lisp

howto embed tab character (#\Tab) in format directive string?
Hi Formatting a list as a comma-delimited string is easy; (format nil "~{~a~^,~}" '(1 2 3)) => "1,2,3" How do i do the same (SBCL) but with tab characters in the output? It must be simple but I've tried a ton of different things. Cheers Mike. ... 9 Nov 2009 08:50

faster?
On 2009-11-01 09:11:15 +0000, "joswig(a)corporate-world.lisp.de" <joswig(a)lisp.de> said: Since the market for Lisp hardware crashed at that time, no new Lisp processors with better technology and improved designs have entered the market. No new C processors have entered the market in that time either. Wit... 2 Nov 2009 02:28

The King is Dead!? Long live... Scala? Clojure?!
On 2009-10-31 23:04:01 -0400, Kenneth Tilton <kentilton(a)gmail.com> said: It's 2009. Isn't the web the only OS worth thinking about? Yes, because now that it's 2009 we don't have to worry about doing anything resource intensive on the client - it can all be done on the server, in the "cloud," because we have... 3 Nov 2009 13:44

Variables use.
Hello all again. I have done the exercise listed further down. The thing is that I first wrote the commented out version (that didn't work). My question is: Why do the second version works and the first one not. Thanks all for your help. ;; Exercise 9 ;; Define a function like apply, but where any n... 31 Oct 2009 17:41

reverse engineering of compiled lisp code
since 4 years now, I follow this newsgroup, but didn't read/find anyting valuable about this toppic. In about one year I hope to ship my application, that I'm workin on (since 6 years). So I'm quite afraid and wondering if anybody could easily reverse engineer my lisp fasl files or the image they are incorporate... 3 Nov 2009 05:59

A Fateman paper
[Followups set to comp.lang.c] In <702c1562-9d1f-42f6-aaed-0c41dce5fb2d(a)15g2000yqy.googlegroups.com>, Nick Keighley wrote: <snip> why use assembler when you have C? I can think of only two reasons. The first is easily dispensed with: you might use assembly language instead of C because you WANT to. I... 1 Nov 2009 15:29

why REVAPPEND?
Is there some actual usefulness to REVAPPEND? In pre-Common Lisp days, I assumed it was a utility created to define REVERSE, but it made it into CL unscathed. Anyone know why? ... 3 Nov 2009 10:22

tagbody vs. defun
There's one thing that puzzles me most. What is best practice to group several functions together? For example in body of a loop. (dotimes (x 3) (tagbody (format t "one ~a~%" x ) (format t "two ~a~%" x) (format t "three ~a~%" x) ) ) Is tagbody the right way to do it or even for one loop I ne... 4 Nov 2009 23:01

Berlin Lispers Meetup: November 3, 2008
Title: Berlin Lispers Meetup Date: Tuesday November 3, 2009 Time: 8pm onwards Venue: St. Oberholz, Rosenthaler Straße 72a, 10119 Berlin Transport: U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz You are kindly invited to the first "Berlin Lispers Meetup", an informal gathering for anyone interested in Lisp, beer or coffee, organized... 4 Nov 2009 11:56

Multiple Threads in clisp
Hi all I heard that the clisp support the Multiple Threads from http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/mt.html#mt-package. Then I check the *features* (:LIBSVM :ZLIB :RAWSOCK :PCRE :WILDCARD :DIRKEY :READLINE :REGEXP :SYSCALLS :I18N :LOOP :COMPILER :CLOS :MOP :CLISP :ANSI-CL :COMMON- LISP :LISP=CL :INTERPRETER :SOCK... 27 Oct 2009 09:11