Common Lisp

This comforting illusion may have prevented us from seeing the real problem with Lisp, or at least Common Lisp, which is that it sucks for doing what hackers want to do.

Being Popular 2001

The Lisp community has done some work on adding optional static typing; Common Lisp allows type declarations, and compilers may use them to generate code on a par with a C compiler, but I've never seen a typing system as rich as C++'s with templates and so on in a Lisp.

Snell-Pym » C++ 2009

The Lisp community has done some work on adding optional static typing; Common Lisp allows type declarations, and compilers may use them to generate code on a par with a C compiler, but I've never seen a typing system as rich as C++'s with templates and so on in a Lisp.

Snell-Pym » 2009 » January 2009

ITA's software consists of more than 200,000 lines of Common Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language that's often associated with artificial intelligence research.

Behind the Fiendish Complexities of Airfare Pricing 2007

For a thought-provoking guide to what can be done with Common Lisp macros, see On Lisp by Paul Graham; and for an alternative macro system, see my final year project from my degree.

Snell-Pym » Syntactic sugar in s-expression languages 2007

Perl and Common Lisp occupy opposite poles on this question.

Being Popular 2001

The political correctness of Common Lisp is an aberration.

Being Popular 2001

Arc allows three things in parameter lists besides ordinary symbols: (opt var default) which indicates an optional parameter whose value defaults to default; (ds pattern) which matches a pattern of variables against an incoming list, like Common Lisp destructuring-bind; and (get vars) which picks one or more variables out of an incoming db or instance with corresponding keys.

Arc at 3 Weeks 2001

Practical Common Lisp, in order to provide a semi-standard environment for people to play with Common Lisp I created

Planet Lisp 2010

In Common Lisp correcting this would be easy: (remove item list: count 1), but as vl-remove doesn't have a count argument, have to scrap that.

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