I've been learning Ruby, just for fun and because I'm about to start porting a Rails app to Django, and I've come to the following conclusion: If I want Common Lisp, I'll use Common Lisp. It's not that I think Ruby's all bad, it's just that it's a perversion of Common Lisp into some arcane sort of [...]

I've decided to try Slava Akhmechet's cl-cont, a continuations library for Common Lisp. My little example for this purpose was to port the tree->generator function from Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days to Common Lisp. This function takes a tree and returns a function that will successively yield the leaves of the tree. Here's the code: (defun/cc [...]

This is a guest post by Maciej Pasternacki, a Google Summer of Code student who created CL-OpenID. The summer is gone (September doesn't count as summer), and so is the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. My Summer of Code project was CL-OpenID, an implementation of OpenID for Common Lisp, and its a pleasure to me [...]

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... 've got both a Mac OS X version (using OpenMCL) as well as a Windows version (using CLISP). I've also tried Lisp In A Box and Ready Lisp (using SBCL).LispBox has worked great for me but it's time to take off the training wheels. So I've uninstalled all of my ready-to-go Lisp kits, downloaded a fresh snapshot of SLIME and installed a copy of Aquamacs. One day, ...

I just saw this on news.ycombinator.com: "We are currently seeking talented Lisp Game Developers who are passionate about game development and want to play a major role in developing and maintaining new features for one of our persistent browser games. This particular title uses Hunchentoot, but all other code has been developed in house using the Mnesia [...]