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Is newLisp 30 years old? Happy Birthday!

try PEG!

https://github.com/dahu/nlpeg

Necromancer!

Cool, I'll delete and re-install newLISP just before El Capitan is released. I understand ElCap will delete any non-system files from /usr/bin during its installation, but newLISP should be safe once installed in/usr/local. I will have to update a few files (those in which I didn't use "#!/usr/bin/e...

I understand that the next version of OS X won't allow users to install anything into /usr/bin/. Is this going to affect newLISP installations?

(I may have missed any discussion of this - sorry!)

Cool, thanks! On Github there are a number of other repos too - e.g. https://github.com/marchildmann/Dragonfly (Last updated 6 years ago... ! :)). And there's a four-year old version (https://github.com/taoeffect/dragonfly-newlisp). I've been tinkering with my local copy (I had problems when the hos...

Hi Marc - what happened to http://www.rundragonfly.com? I went there the other day (problems with Dragonfly and newlisp v10.6) and I didn't understand a thing (although I liked the castle) !

Yes, that mistake has been made more than once... :)

newLISP 10.6 looks to be slower than older versions — I'm only getting 0.9 seconds now on 10.6, compared with 0.4 with newLISP 10.3. I was going to investigate, but the benchmark "qa-bench" in the current distribution isn't backwards compatible with earlier versions... Which makes the top post fairl...

Seems a bit slow - presumably that's due to newLISP 10.6.0 rather than OSX 10.9 or the Recycle Bin...?

https://github.com/dahu/nlpeg ?

Well I don't test my code very thoroughly .. :) but I remember adding something for bigints earlier, so it kind of works, and it's not too far behind. Pull requests accepted!

I tried it, and soon started to miss the parentheses. #!/usr/bin/newlisp define D:D map fn x D x inc D x explode read-file main-args 2 map fn p println p 0 "\t:\t" p 1 D exit or #!/usr/bin/newlisp (define D:D) (map (fn (x) (D x (inc (D x)))) (explode (read-file ((main-args) 2)))) (map (fn (p) (print...

Great - now I want one of those... :)

(map inc '(1 2 3 4 5)) but above expression returned a list? or a quoted list? It returns an unevaluated list: (2 3 4 5) As does: '(1 2 3 4) (1 2 3 4) which is why you can do: (map inc (map inc '(1 2 3 4)) ;-> (3 4 5 6) I don't think built-in functions are exactly macros, but many of them have spec...

Hi there. The wikibooks was intended as a general and gentle introduction, perhaps for people such as engineers or non-programmers who want to introduce some automation to their work. This mirrors newLISP itself, which is similarly not directed purely towards computer science graduates and experienc...

Not sure, I don't think it does. Of course you can easily say: (dolist (x b) (dolist (y a) (push (list x y) results -1))) but presumably this isn't a list comprehension, just a nested list iteration. Although I glanced through the Wikipedia entry and the Rosetta code examples, I didn't get the conce...

Also in the manual:

"Several options can be combined using a binary or | (pipe) operator. E.g. (| 1 4) would combine options 1 and 4."

I think you've done the right thing by asking Jeremy for help... :) Although it sounds like an Apache/file permissions thing, rather than newLISP.

Some previous posts: http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4131&hilit=tail+call http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2748&hilit=tail+call http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4131&hilit=tail+call http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/f...

Don't forget to use + - * / % rather than add sub mul div mod for integers...

If you find any errors or can add suggestions http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducti ... th_numbers, please do! :)

I don't think pow is big-integer friendly - has (pow 9 17) already exceeded 64-bit integer range and converted to float? The addition of bigint into newLISP is very recent, and at the moment I don't think all arithmetic operations can handle them. newLISP isn't designed to be as maths-aware a langua...

How about:
I admit that match is the one area in newLISP that I always fail to get right in the first few attempts... :)

:) The plan was to get the newLISP syntax into the linguist code, but even with help I can't get my pull request past the "Travis build" phase. I have no idea what Github are doing (busy watching hula-hooping work colleagues?) but they couldn't have made it more difficult .... I think we'll just hav...