Lisp links thread

[failrate]

If you've written unit tests for any of your Lua code, that could tell you in one quick pop if anything's b0rken.

[adam]

http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html

lisp related & made me giggle...

[adam]

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lan ... f9ffff7839

Well, I finally reached enlightenment. I understand why people
don't use lisp. It took me a long time. It isn't a lack of
libraries, or the number of parentheses. The thing that kills a
language is powerful syntax and abstractions.

[adam]

http://community.schemewiki.org/cgi-bin ... n-scheme2c

Marc showed us how to write a simple Scheme to C compiler, in Scheme. In only 90 minutes! And although not supporting the whole Scheme standard, the compiler supports fully optimized proper tail calls, continuations, and (of course) full closures. The compiler is implemented using two important compilation techniques for functional languages: closure conversion and CPS-conversion.

a video that i haven't watched, unsure of the number of blackboards employed

[Balooga]

Does anyone have a "how to grok lisp" guide?

Casting SPELs in Lisp; shows how to go about creating a text-based adventure game in Lisp.

[adam]

Does anyone have a "how to grok lisp" guide?

Casting SPELs in Lisp; shows how to go about creating a text-based adventure game in Lisp.

thanks Balooga and welcome... i've tried that one... theres some clever stuff later on where the rooms are linked together (or map made or something) iirc

[Balooga]

What pushed me to Lisp were two Q/A sessions on Slashdot several years ago:

- Kent M. Pitman Answers On Lisp And Much More
- Kent M. Pitman's Second Wind

Kent writes well and doesn't get all in-your-face-fanboy over Lisp.

And if any of you sheep require more convincing, here is an actual chart in PDF form that confirms the absolute and very utmost supreme superiority that Lisp has over everything else ever made, ever: The Programmer Hierarchy. So there.

[adam]

http://eval.apply.googlepages.com/changesafe.html

ChangeSafe: an example of stratified design with Common Lisp

[GoatFoam]

http://eval.apply.googlepages.com/changesafe.html

ChangeSafe: an example of stratified design with Common Lisp

That one isn't exactly inspiring. "We have been working on this thing for years, and it still isn't ready for a first release, but lisp is dead flexible and lets us do anything!"

[adam]

never said they were inspiring lisp links

[failrate]

http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/index.php?topic=1193.0

[adam]

looks good you might like lush as well http://lush.sourceforge.net/ iirc it's got hooks into sdl... documentation is a bit sparse though & i expect the community is very small

(it was a bit of a non starter for me because i was trying to learn with common-lisp tutorials & the commands are totally different, but if you're a seasoned programmer you might be ok)

[teamonkey]

That DrScheme looks really nice. I might give that a go this weekend.

[adam]

i like it, seems the scheme community is very friendly too

my top tip for drscheme is that you can use [ ] interchangably with () less shift keying required someone suggested remapping ones keyboard if one gets seriously into lisp, so that the []() are easier to get to [you'll be using them a lot]

[failrate]

SDL hooks, eh? That'd make for a good Digital Signal Processing (DSP, innit?) kit.

I think Lisp-like languages have gotten a bad wrap for performance. Void Sniper can currently run well better than 60 FPS.