Zach's JournalZach's Journal - LiveJournal.comXCVB - a shift from ASDF- May 30, 2008 Faré just announced XCVB, a (planned) scalable system to build large software in Lisp. His message to the CCLAN list includes a writeup of current issues with ASDF for large systems and design plans for how to address them with XCVB. It includes a glimpse into some of the challenges faced by ITA when building their large Common Lisp projects.http://xach.livejournal.com/173073.html Lisp linkdump- May 21, 2008 There have been a number of interesting Lisp things lately. Rainer Joswig wrote about the upcoming Hamburg Lisp meeting next Wednesday. His article is cool for two reasons: it has a couple pretty graphics explaining some Lisp machine genealogy, and it points to Piano5, a graphical aircraft-related application that Edi Weitz ported to LispWorks. Gainsville-Green.com is an experimental UCW site. Behind-the-scenes blog post is here. It uses UCW, Postgres, SBCL, CXML,...http://xach.livejournal.com/172934.html New Lisps- May 19, 2008 In the past week both CMUCL and CLISP have seen new releases. Here's the CMUCL announcement and the CLISP announcement.http://xach.livejournal.com/172741.html programming exposition- May 15, 2008 Every now and then I see questions like this: What's the Lisp equivalent of Java's zotFrizzle or Is there a Lisp-for-C++-programmers guide In general I think it's better to learn a language on its own terms, without trying hard to figure out how it maps to some language you already know. I was reminded of that when reviewing K&R for some C hacking. There's one part that says "This is like the foo feature of Pascal or the bar feature of Fortran." Now I just have to learn...http://xach.livejournal.com/172485.html |