Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | yesterday
Maybe-useful shell oneliners #n: (date +%s; read foo; date +%s; echo r - p) | dc Press return to start the timer, press return again to stop it and get a rough time in seconds between the two presses. May require GNU date, as I do not know how widely spread "%s" is as time-in-seconds-since-epoch time format control. Sadly, the first version did the subtraction and then multiplied by -1, but I think...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hmmm, getting dusty in here again. Did a little hack this afternoon. Every once in a while I teach someone intro guitar playing. Each time, I end up writing out for them some chord charts in my typically messy way. So this time 'round I went looking for printable stuff on the web, and none of what I found was that capable, and a lot of it looks terrible. So I figured it wouldn't be hard to roll my...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | yesterday
In February this year, Nathan Froyd described allocation sequences in SBCL and alternative approaches other implementations use to make sure the runtime never sees half-initialised objects. At first sight, SBCL's sequence seems fairly large and slow for what, in the end, increments a thread-local pointer, even on x86-64, with its awesome 14 (RBP actually serves as a frame pointer in SBCL) GPRs: Set...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Fritz Kunze Fritz Kunze co-founded Franz Incorporated and served as its CEO for 23 years. Careening through Lisp mind fields An excursionary romp through the last 20 odd years of history of the Lisp community. Some hopefully measured and neutral observations about the strengths and weaknesses of resources within the Lisp Community. Colorful stories told from a unique perspective and coupled with opinions...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Kent M. Pitman Kent Pitman has been involved in the design, implementation, and use of the Lisp and Scheme programming languages for three decades. Kent has participated intermittently in the Scheme community, both as an early collaborator, in 1981, on the design of T, a Scheme dialect created at Yale, and later as one of several co-authors of various Revised Reports on Scheme. Throughout the 1980's...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Herbert Stoyan Herbert Stoyan started 1970 with work in AI and with LISP programming. In Dresden he implemented LISP without a manual using the book of Berkeley and Bobrow. Later he wrote several books on LISP and AI programming. In 1979 he got interested in LISP history and collected systematically all documents related to LISP. Based on this he published several papers on LISP history. He was head...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The document "Inspector-Hook" has been submitted by Tobias C. Rittweiler and has been accepted as CDR document 6. According to the CDR process, this document is now in its initial stage and will be finalized on November 16, 2008, unless withdrawn by the author beforehand. See CDR 6 for the details of this document.
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Leslie Polzer writes: We’re offering an internship: The intern will work on our main project, an interactive browser game written in Common Lisp with high availability requirements. The position is unpaid but we’re very flexible with respect to your goals and your time: work may be carried out remote (communication via mail/instant messaging) and you can choose among a wide range of tasks. You should...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Hans wrote: I am becoming increasingly frustrated by Common Lisp's age. On the one hand, history makes it what it is: Mature, well-documented, thoroughly understood and practical. On the other, it fails to keep up with current system designs, lacking convenient native support for rich data structures, infrastructure access and parallel programming. That reminded me of a paper by Richard C. Waters...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I’m not thrilled with the quality of this posting , but in the interest of getting the pump primed, I’m willing to put it out there. They ask: Do you think in hexadecimal or dream in lisp? Well, do ya, punk?
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
I welcome Hal Eisen as our first volunteer contributer to Lispjobs. If you’d like to contribute, too, then: get a WordPress account send me an email with the email address you used to sign up for your account
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
I am becoming increasingly frustrated by Common Lisp's age. On the one hand, history makes it what it is: Mature, well-documented, thoroughly understood and practical. On the other, it fails to keep up with current system designs, lacking convenient native support for rich data structures, infrastructure access and parallel programming. No programming language choice is without tradeoffs and in that...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
If you’re interested in trolling for Lisp jobs and posting them here, send me an email at will dot fitzgerald at gmail dot com.
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It’s time to change this weblog’s status, I’m afraid that I have lost afflatus, Jobs are few and far between For Common Lisp and every Scheme: Lispjobs, therefore, is on hiatus. If the job market–or my interest–increases, I’ll restart the weblog. If anyone else wants to administer it, I’d be glad to consider offers.
