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Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:51:03 +0000

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

Tags: #graphics #lisp #livecoding

Lisp REPL in Vendetta Online

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:49:37 +0000

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)

Tags: #imported:pinboard #lisp #programming #repl #vendettaonline

jmc rip

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:01:45 +0000

Tags: #compsci #johnmccarthy #lisp

Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died (Iain Thomson/The Register)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:30 +0000

Tags: #lisp #rip #tech

MCLIDE - Lisp IDE for Macintosh

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:15:14 +0000

"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."

Tags: #apple #ide #lisp #mac #osx

yolisp.jpg (JPEG Image, 596x500 pixels)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:02:29 +0000

Tags: #dawg #eval #funny #lisp

Arc's Out

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:30:24 +0000

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

Tags: #arc #lisp #programming

ALU Wiki: Daniel Weinreb's Road to Lisp

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:21:46 +0000

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

Tags: #common #lisp #programming

The Truth About Lisp

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:59:17 +0000

"Learning lisp will alter your life."

Tags: #compsci #funny #lisp #programming

Dustin Long's homepage - Kamen Lisp

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:55:43 +0000

"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."

Tags: #crazy #firefox #lisp #nifty #webdev

Giles Bowkett: What If There Are No Gods?

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:51:23 +0000

"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."

Tags: #balls #funny #lisp #php #ruby #smalltalk #webdev

defmacro - Functional Programming For The Rest of Us

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:57:36 +0000

"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)."

Tags: #compsci #functional #lisp #programming

defmacro - The Nature of Lisp

Thu, 25 May 2006 14:22:50 +0000

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

Tags: #articles #compsci #lisp #programming #tutorials

Sriram Krishnan : Lisp is sin

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:14:55 +0000

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

Tags: #compsci #lisp #programming

Greg Trasuk's Weblog - Aha! While writing YAQL I accidentally discovered Lisp

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:47:35 +0000

"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."

Tags: #lisp #programming