Programming

The Americans came with several copies of the Common Lisp the Language specification put into the format designed for the X3J13 draft standard. Each was about five inches thick. They also had a black notebook containing "strategy". On the second day, Dick Gabriel and Patrick Dussud sported "Lisp: Born in the USA" T-shirts. This created a search for counter-slogans (chiefly among the French delegation), of which "FORTRAN: Born in the USA" was probably the best.

Purpose

Yes, like every other weiner out there, who spends more time sitting in front of a computer than sleeping, I have written a page to praise the languages I love, and shoot down the ones I hate. Unfortunately, I haven't been in the mood lately to sit down and write the bloody thing, so pretend you're reading something about the perfection of Lisp and lisp-like languages. Here are some links, torn ungracefully from my bookmark pages, until I actually get around doing something here

• Lisp, big and beautiful, though not for the parenthesis wary.
  • CMU Common Lisp Repository. This is the lisp section of the CMU AI Repository. A lot of pointers to documentation, implementations and code.
  • The Association of Lisp Users (ALU). Lisp related info, including pointers to real world uses of the language, and a humor section.
  • CMU Common Lisp activities. Though no longer supported by CMU, work is still being done on this high quality lisp. From here, you can find links to the current development tree, sources and binaries for operating systems and machines that weren't originally supported, and contacts for current information.
  • Common Lisp HyperSpec. This is (essentially) the ANSI standard for Common Lisp, htmlized and extensively cross-referenced.
  • Emacs. How could I not include emacs information on a page mentioning lisp?

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• Scheme, a simpler and more complex lisp
  • The Scheme home page at MIT. Links to documents and some implementations.
  • The Scheme Repository. A large amount of available code, software, etc...
  • Elk. The Extension Language Kit. Does basically the same thing as guile, but the internals are a bit easier to deal with (but doesn't do conservative gc, a major pain in the ass for c code).
  • Guile. This is the Gnu Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension. It provides a library, which can be linked to programs and used to provide a full fledged scheme interpreter, to be used for configuration and extension, in much the same way as elisp is used to extend Emacs.

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• Write an actual page, rather than a links page.
• Find an appropriate emacs site. UPDATE: The gnu sight now has an emacs webpage, poorly written by myself. Also, check out the news links, since I had to spend a lot of time htmlizing the bloody things, and would like to think that someone actually looks at them ;).
• Crush the rebel uprising, using only a balloon, a duck, and some masking tape.

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Last modified Sun Nov 08,1998

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