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Hi, A reddit user asked what's a good, modern LISP to learn and among the usual cruft about Common Lisp (which is cool) came Scheme (flavours), Clojure, Rebol (surprising, but it's actually quite cool, shame on licensing) and newLISP. As usual, our newlispers have been downvoted, so after 'rescuing'...

Hi there, the database you are describing reminds me to nosql (not the current, famous one) an ascii text based relational database which used perl scripts for the operations, and files for tables... it was pretty interesting, because you needed zero sql to do all the usual relational db chores. as ...

Lutz, Sounds really enticing, can't waitto get the new version a documentation! As for threading, I guess I was really thinking about fork() emulation under Windows... If native threads are the way to go, maybe a windows guru could provide a test implementation so we can use Cilk and concurrent code...

Lutz, Sounds cool, indeed! Anyway, lots of changes for the new release, it'll surely be worth the upgrading! Once question, though. I know that Windows, not having fork(), it's a hindrance for multiprocess... Any possibility of having pseudo-fork support on Windows by using threads of some kind? (po...

Lutz, Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I see the Cilk abilities as a huge step forward, and it's something I'd really like to esplore with calm and joy (which means I haven't been able to do anything less that a quick glance at them). My question was more in the interpreter line. I mean, when I launch n...

Greetings! I'm sure many of you have read Guy Steele's recent article about multicore, parallel programming... If you have not, here's the link to the PDF file: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/MITApril2009Steele.pdf The thing is, he splicitely mentions linked lists as being ...

Done :-)



best of luck!

very nice kazimir ! -> http://www.instprog.com/Instprog.default-library.lsp perhpas 'nice' is an understatement here ;-) Agreed! I already use it and abuse it, so thanks for the great work. Now, returning to supernatural symbols, I think I get the idea... It's interesting, though, as it came to my ...

Lutz wrote:Package making scripts for UBUNTU debian Linux, Mac OS X and Win32 are already part of the source distrubution.

Ah, cool, I didn't know... I'll try compiling on my lpia based Mini Dell and let you all know...

thx!

Greetings, I dunno if this is common to all platforms, but I have particularly noticed in my windows machine at work: I run newLISP-GS, hack around, leave it open and when I come back the next day (the machine has tasks to do during the night, so it's on during the week) my newLISP-GS session is gon...

Yup! Tested on both GNU/Linux and in Windows, like a charm. Lutz, is there any chance to permanently add the Debian-packaging information related to newLISP to the sources? That would allow us to use newdep's script and then make a package to install on Debian-like GNU/Linux distributions (like mine...

Time for newLISP's implicit indexing to come to the rescue!!! ;) ... (drop-last '("http" "example.com" "path" "to" "files" "file1.html")) -> ("http" "example.com" "path" "to" "files") Yeah, it's actually something that doesn't easily arise just by browsing the functions index when reading the docum...

I'm not sure I'd consider such an easy to do task worthy of a new function all of its own ... most is quite fun, but a bit vague for some, perhaps. but-first and but-last would be symmetrical alternatives. The truth is (chop) is not an intuitive name for this task, even when it's covered by it. Wel...

Hi there, This is a problem that has arisen several times now in my programs (which do some heavy text file parsing) I get a text line, (parse) it and then I need a list of tokens but the last one. A silly example: getting the base URI from a given URI: "http://example.com/path/to/files/file1.html" ...

Well, I see... it's a generalized WIndows problem...

Thanks for the advice, Lutz, I'll surely do as you say, it should be, anyway, easy enough...

laters!

Lutz wrote:The 'parse-date' function is not available on Windows

That explains it all... Any reasons there's not one? Too hard to implement on windows, I guess...

I'll have to go manual with this one... :-P

thx anyway!

Greetings, I'm writing a script for parsing the output of the 'last' command, and I have found that (parse-date) gives an error. This is in 10.0.2 in Windows (both in newLISP GS and using it with cygwin) > (sys-info) (391 268435456 367 1 0 2048 3268 10002 6) > (parse-date) ERR: invalid function : (p...

Kazimir, as always your blog is an interesting and educative reading, thanks for it!

But, in the name of all the conses, would you think about explaining further what's with supernatural symbols??? Please :-)

thx!

Most functions in newLISP dealing with files and directories return 'nil' when the underlying operating system functions fails. You can use the newLISP function 'sys-error' to find out what went wrong. The following interactive session illustrates this: Ah, cool... This means I can wrap the system ...

Greetings, Recently I found out that a script of mine stopped working under cygwin when it had been working OK for weeks. Debugging it, I found out that, for some reason, the permissions on the base directory were incorrect and the user the script was running under couldn't create a new directory. N...

Very interesting blog! I'm learning quite a bit, thanks a bunch and keep it up!

laters

Hey, there,

Nice work on the new syntax file for vim... While my version (which Lutz actually maintained and updated) was a quick hack over the Lisp syntax file, yours is actually beautiful to watch and really cool to use...

Thanks and laters!

Lutz, thanks for the help, it was pretty, well, helpful... :-) Below I provide a 'collect' function that does kind-of foldr as I'd like to... crude, but it could be useful: (define (collect f n) (let ((done false) (result (list n))) (do-while (nil? done) (begin (setq n (f n)) (if (nil? n) (set 'done...

Greetings! LTNS, actually... I'm unrusting myself with an interesting page I found, essays in J language ( http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays ). I am trying the first one, the Collatz conjecture, http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Collatz_Conjecture , and I was wondering how do you do in idiom...

Nice article... I've tinkered with Pico Lisp some time ago, and it seemd a very pragmatic and nice solution... In a way, it's like newLisp, in others, it's not... Where do you see the similarities to newLisp? Where do they differ? The article shows an intersting statistic where the interpreted pico...