Lisp

Clipboard Access on Windows
A part of this question is about Lisp/Lisp tools, but other parts of it are not. This is a project that has been brewing for some time, and I would love to hack it in Lisp, but want to see the lay of the land before I pick my tools. I want to build an application that continuously record information about everyt... 24 Sep 2006 00:47

what does "(define (p) (p))" mean?
Chris Barts ha escrito: I know you're being facetious, but I would welcome a more diverse group of languages. Logo, for example... While languages like Python, Perl, might have some similarities to Lisp, Scheme is a direct dialect of Lisp, like CL. And this group is named comp.lang.LISP, not comp.lang.COMMON... 21 Sep 2006 11:07

what does "(define (p) (p))" mean?
(define (p) (p)) (define (test x y) (if (= x 0) 0 y)) (test 0 (p)) while i run these code in scsh, the interpreter does not return.? why? and what does "(define (p) (p))" mean? ... 21 Sep 2006 23:05

Tektonic and Lisp Hosting (sbcl)
Does anyone use Tektonic (http://www.tektonic.com) to host lisp-based web apps? They are very cheap, and I have a few sbcl/tbnl/cl-who apps that I want to move somewhere. They use Virtuozzo, which is an OS virtualization product, a lot like Xen. Thanks. ... 8 Sep 2006 09:23

Differenz between developing websites with PHP/LISP
Hello, i am a german developer which reads this newsgroup for some month. Sadly reading english is easier for me, than writting it ;) So i hope you can understand me. First some words to me: I am 23 year old boy and write programms nearly since 9 years. The last years i have specialced at the development of i... 15 Sep 2006 04:21

Yet another Smalltalk or Lisp discussion (Windows Centric)
Hi, After a fair amount of research I have decided to use the CLISP version of Common Lisp running under Windows XP. I had initially dismissed Smalltalk almost out of hand but think it may be worth another look. More than likely I will end up trying out both languages in the long run, but in the short to me... 25 Sep 2006 02:00

Is Programming Boring?
In another thread Tim Bradshaw repeatedly claims: "programming is *hard* and *boring*" I'm okay with "Hard" because it's relative to your skill level, so I know that he's wrong from the outset. But I've never ever heard anyone (at least not a programmer) say that programming is boring! Oh, sure, there are times wh... 22 Sep 2006 02:19

Financial failure
In comp.risk: Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:45:13 +0100 From: "Martyn Thomas" <martyn(a)thomas-associates.co.uk> Subject: UK 141M-pound benefits computer system shelved "A new computer system used to process benefits payments has been scrapped at a cost to the taxpayer of (UK) 141M pounds, the BBC has learned. T... 7 Sep 2006 17:29

package nicknames
I guess the owner / author of a package generally declares the nicknames for the package. Usually the intention is to provide a short name. Perhaps I'm missing something, but this seems to invite collisions. After thinking about it a little, I was wondering whether it makes more sense for the _users_ of a pa... 7 Sep 2006 06:07

Lets talk about GUI and sound libraries
Suppose that I have in mind to write an application for normal users, not programmers, and not system administrators. For example, I like music applications, so supose that I'm going to write something similar to Cubase or Logic. (Actually this is just a desire, I know that making such a kind of applicattion is qu... 5 Sep 2006 05:35