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Common Lisp at its base is usually written in Common Lisp.

The class and instance evolution protocols for starters seem not all that easy.

If you mean the C compiled code, that's what a typical sbcl binary is already. On my system it's around 2.5MB. The compiled CL code image (and its related data) is around 50MB. sav…

Also, some context from comp.lang.lisp is available at https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3250122499743574%40nagg...

Sweden had a similar idea. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/visingso-oak-forest

It extends to Topsfield. At the intersection of Route 1 and Route 6 there's a model of Eris.

The Mark Zuckerberg profile is promoted heavily on "who to follow"-type interstitials. It also shows up when friends like or share things it posts. Blocking would be a simple way t…

My video appeal is here: https://vimeo.com/194845103

I hope to improve the documentation and security of Quicklisp in the next few months. It will depend on funding. The core of Quicklisp is in dist.lisp. Understanding the protocol o…

This is a not a good guide. Avoid Graham too. PCL is much better. Keene too. Seek out Joe Marshall's Warp Speed intro too.

Postmodern is good. It works only on Postgres. It is fast, easy, and stable. Elephant has been unmaintained for many years. I wouldn't recommend it.

Yes, unfortunately that's the case. There are a handful of commands described on http://www.quicklisp.org/ but there is no end-to-end, comprehensive user or developer manual.

GNU CLISP does not get any resources, human or otherwise, from the GNU project. If Sam stops working on CLISP, he's not going to start working on GNU Emacs or gdb instead.

This is true in the same sense that the GIMP is the "GNU Image Manipulation Program". It's just a label, and a license choice, without much real meaning behind it. GCL is also call…

Starting from classes and describing generic functions as a way to send messages is pretty backwards for CLOS. CLOS is best used primarily by defining a protocol with generic funct…

Yes, with more than a trivial amount of work. When the syntax is more lisp-congruent, you don't have to jump through as many hoops.

Certain things are still hardwired into the Common Lisp reader. For example, because of how colons are treated in symbols, you can't trivially support something like JSON via reade…

I think anyone who wants to be able to stick with a system as they grow, get supportive help from an active user base, reuse the work of others in the form of useful libraries, and…

Cool! It would be interesting to see how far it gets on the ANSI test suite from http://www.cliki.net/GCL%20ANSI%20Test%20Suite

It might have been at some point in the past, but it doesn't run on modern systems, does not fully implement Common Lisp, and can't run much of the useful software written in the p…

I think it's pretty unlikely that this will be made to work in a modern environment in a useful way. I think the primary benefit will be historical interest and possibly the reuse …

Meta: this company scraped my contact & project info from github and spammed me multiple times to add me to their stable of experts. It felt incredibly slimy. I'm sure they're very…

The code hasn't been released in five years. There have been a bunch of security fixes since then, and likely many other changes as well.

Reminds me a bit of a thrift shop book I picked up a while ago, "The Coming Exploration of Space" by Lester del Rey from 1959. https://www.flickr.com/photos/xach/sets/7215760165710…