http://www.osnews.com/ looks at newlisp

newdep · Post by **newdep** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:16 pm

http://www.osnews.com/

http://www.osnews.com/story/20728/A_Look_at_newLISP

cormullion · Post by **cormullion** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:57 pm

That's a good review - objective, yet opinionated, without being biased in advance of the facts... :)

Is his summary of the passing-parameters-by-value true given the changes in newLISP 10? I thought there was some reference-passing going on nowadays...

I think there might have been a slight confusion between built-in functions and external/importable modules...

Apart from this, newLISP also comes with a handful of extra modules, touching a variety of subjects, from regular expressions and Amazon-AWS EC2 to network sockets and database interfacing.

Also worth noting:

The only current setback is that third-party modules are somewhat behind the changes newLISP has undergone in its transition to the recently-launched 10.0 version.

Not sure which third-party modules he means... Is there a difference between user-supplied example code (like the stuff I do) and proper, tested, third-party modules...?

Anyway, Alexendru Lazar - if you're reading this - thanks for the good work!

pjot · Post by **pjot** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:02 pm

Well I can shed some light on this. The other day (january 1) somebody contacted me with problems on the FreeGLUT stuff. I replied that I did not had time yet to update it to newLisp10; from his mail I could see things went wrong with (nth-set), which is obsolete with newLisp10.

In the meantime I have updated the GL contexts. It's all spare-time stuff, you know ;-)

Regards
Peter