Tag Archives: Common Lisp

Common Lisp method composition

Posted on 2007-09-06 by J. Pablo Fernández

I’ve made an image to describe Common Lisp method composition (or CLOS method composition if you want):

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Another simplistic solution, with SCons

Posted on 2007-09-01 by J. Pablo Fernández

SCons is a program designed to replace make and autotools. SCons being a new tool is built with all the knowledge of what problem really this kind of tool should be solving, while make and autotools were built while discovering … Continue reading →

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Solving Lisp's problem: a simplistic solution with make

Posted on 2007-08-26 by J. Pablo Fernández

I recently stated what I believe is the biggest problem with Lisp, you can’t make programs with it. In my quest, my first solution is a very simplistic Makefile that does the job using cl-launch, a very interesting program that … Continue reading →

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The problem with Lisp

Posted on 2007-08-26 by J. Pablo Fernández

I’m not really going to talk about the problem with Lisp, but only a problem. And I’m not really going to talk about Lisp, but Common Lisp. So this post should be called “A problem with Common Lisp”, but the … Continue reading →

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Lisp macros feel like cheating

Posted on 2007-08-05 by J. Pablo Fernández

Common Lisp macros feel like cheating. I’ve reached chapter 9 of Practical Common Lisp, where the goal is to build a unit test framework, and you can see right away how the patterns are easily abstracted out with macros. It’s … Continue reading →

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A programmer’s favourite language

Posted on 2007-08-04 by J. Pablo Fernández

I’ve discovered something recently. Most programmers have a favourite programming language. No, that’s not it, there’s more to my discovery. Whenever those programmers have an idea they open a text editor and start coding and/or they start playing with a … Continue reading →

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