#lisp

Some Lisps, like Common Lisp, have a powerful feature that tends to go underappreciated amidst all the talk about macros: the ability to recompile your program while it's running, without restarting it. For the purposes of this post, and because it sounds cool, let's call this ability livecoding

Vendetta Online has a Lisp environment (using SBCL) which controls much of its NPC behavior and will soon be in charge of generating player and NPC missions. Partly in order to get around some thread-safety issues, and partly for convenience we built an REPL into a secret chat channel. (it only responds to developer accounts)

"MCLIDE is a double-clickable, stand-alone development environment that connects to a Lisp either locally or through the network. It's like a combination of Slime with a modern GUI based IDE."

This description of things makes me want to steer a wide course around Arc. ASCII-only? HTML tables? Quick & dirty versus clogged with mud.

"How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp? Pretty far. I am one of the designers of Common Lisp."

"Learning lisp will alter your life."

"allowing web pages to operate with pure, standard compliant Common Lisp. This Firefox extension uses ECL to host a lisp environment, interfacing with the existing Javascript engine only when necessary."

"Say further that the only difference between a company running Seaside, a company running Rails, and a company running PHP is that the Seaside company has huge balls, the Rails company has some balls, and the PHP company has no balls at all."

"In this article I will explain the most widely used ideas from functional languages using examples written in Java (yes, you could write functional programs in Java if you felt particularly masochistic)."

"my attempt to explain Lisp in familiar, intuitive concepts."

"Lisp is like the villainesses present in the Bond movies. It seduces you with its sheer beauty and its allure is irresistible."

"But it is kind of neat to think that this Aha! moment was triggered by a 1987 coding experience that involved a 1976 book that led me to a 1958 language."

Great Paul Graham spoof.

"JavaScript has much in common with Scheme."

Combining an object store, templates, and a web app framework, this makes me think a bit of Radio UserLand for some readon

Interesting. A Lisp-based web app framework

Mmm.. Lisp and continuations and stuff.

"This page is intended as a catalog of web-accessible information about Lisp Machines."

Learning Lisp is on my research list