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On Ubuntu 12.10, I have two .so files on /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/: libsqlite3.so.0 libsqlite3.so.0.8.6 I chose the first, but I confess to have hovered over that: can one assume that 0.8.6 is an advance on the other? I tend to trust cosy integers when it comes to version numbers (if that is what t...

I ran Cormullion's elements.lsp code under Win XP at work: it ran without a hitch. That's Windows 2, Ubuntu 0. Sigh. I foresee some bloodshot eyes ahead, trying to figure out why it will not work under Ubuntu 12.10. I built newLISP from source for Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit around July 2012, after a prompt...

Thanks, rickyboy, it's good to have that in print so we can search for it. As an Ubuntu user, I have had to do this many times. In fact, the location of the .so file has even changed at least once that I can remember on Ubuntu itself. I did not think of putting it in print here - perhaps I have a lo...

Well, thanks for your attentions, Cormullion - your fuller program works straight off on my Win 76 64 bit setup - I commented out the chdir to /tmp line (too impatient to go creating it), but that is the only change I made. All element data was inserted, and all the queries worked. The attempt made ...

I ran the fuller example, but it - first it reports this: create table t1 (number INTEGER, atomic_weight FLOAT, element TEXT, symbol TEXT, mp FLOAT, bp FLOAT, density FLOAT, earth_crust FLOAT, discovered INTEGER, egroup INTEGER, ionization FLOAT); created table ... Ok then comes up with this: ERR: d...

Thanks, Cormullion. Snap. After closing down, I realised that empty line was probably it, but you got there before me!

I will try your fuller example.

I have never been able to get this to work. After tweaking the elements string to ensure there are 11 items in each line (I take out the ellipsis in the example, and shorten the list to 5 lines just for testing), it never has yet inserted the elements into sqlite3, yet it also does not report an err...

Thanks too, to RickyBoy. Popcorn is back in the cupboard, waiting for next time

Thanks again, Bairui. You did spot some other errors: they were corrected in the code you posted. I had used (single quoted) symbols for arguments when defining the two queries "insrt" and "rslt". The modules had been working the way I loaded them before, but your code looks so much better. It was t...

This is very exciting. I recently bought my first smartphone, a bottom range model, and invested some money in Basic4Android. I have played with that a bit, but then life intervened ... and then the festive season, and then .... Does this newLISP implementation permit making buttons, views etc in th...

Well, Bairui, what can I say? You nailed my funnies there, and it works fine now. Apart from removing the single quote where I had a symbol as an argument, you also used a NULL for the AUTOINCREMENT. In the past, I have successfully used an empty string, but NULLS as well. I just forgot. Did you mak...

Thanks for your input. I will give those changes a try, and report back. I too, am making a note to buy some popcorn ...

I have never got the example in the User Guide to work. I can get it to list a result set if I manually insert rows into the Elements Sqlite3 database, but nothing gets written via code. Lately, I have been basing an attempt to write to a simple user, email database, from a webform. This is what I w...

Thanks to Lutz in particular and everyone who helped make this such great language. As to making it more popular, it would need to be "ubiquitous". Lua is, python is, in their respective territories, but newLISP hasn't really got a "turf" yet. "Hello World" is SO last century. Why not make the botto...

Thanks, xytroxon. I will have to roll my own Goal Seek. Perhaps some of these functions will help.

I lied. I did not give up :) Working on the same basis as with libffi-dev to find a .h header file, I took a flying, lucky guess, and tried installing libreadline-dev. That worked - then, both make and sudo make install proceeded without a hitch. After that, the guiserver.jar file was not found. Ins...

Finally had time to try to build on 64-bit. It did indeed choke on ffi. After installing libffi, it then choked on readline/readline.h. In the past, I have often installed libreadline5, but that didn't help, because it is no longer used. I then followed some googled instructions about libreadline5-d...

I use GoalSeek a fair amount in spreadsheets. It's fast enough, but I confess I don't understand how it works. Googling produced discussions about Newton Rhapson, something that Computer Science and Math students seem to know about. Having last looked at math a half century ago on finishing my schoo...

Thanks. I have just bought a new 64 bit system. Will try the suggestion when I have some spare time.

I couldn't get a good install of newLISP on Precise Pangolin 64 bit. I can see newlisp and its files on /usr/bin/newlisp, but when trying I get I assume one uses the 32 bit installer under Ubuntu 64 bit, right?

Thanks once again, Lutz.

I have not done any FOOP. Seems like I am about to start! Because it appears a few tweaks of redis.lsp will be needed.

I was really pleased to find this, and I am very keen to use it. However, to quote the old song "I can't get started". I have started redis-server, and have redis-cli running. Then I try to run the little sample from redis.lsp: (load "/home/myname/newlisp-redis/redis.lsp") (setf 'conn (redis)) (:pin...

Without making any changes since upgrading, both newLISP midi demos at least now do something . midi-demo.lsp brings up a message box gs:midi-patch - instrument not known When I press OK, it then plays the programmed scale sequence, on a piano. But maybe the piano is a default. midi2-demo.lsp does t...

Thanks to you too. I had not noticed a problem, but checked now to find I had already switched to "radiance".

As to sound, I have always struggled with both midi demo programs, and in fact with sound on Ubuntu, throughout the years. I will give them a try, and report back.

After Ubuntu Precise Pangolin solved the java GTK message problem, it was otherwise a very pleasant upgrade for me. The Unity loader works without problems now, but what's really great is the new Heads Up Display replacing menus. I click the Windows key, and the HUD overlays the desktop in transpare...