Books. I love books. I love the smell of them. The feel of their cool, smooth pages...
...but these aren't real books. These are fake picture of pretend books.
I'll just have to settle for pretend books.
This theme is worlds better than the last one!
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Time Flies. Really, Really Fast.
Argh!
Time flies when you're not paying attention.
The last actual post to this blog was in 2006. It's now 2016 -- that's 10 years for you who are following along.
I could be an expert on a couple of new programming languages by, perhaps even LISP.
There've been so many new developments in this area over the years. I could've been documenting them here...
Ah, well. No sense crying about mile spilt under the bridge!
Time flies when you're not paying attention.
The last actual post to this blog was in 2006. It's now 2016 -- that's 10 years for you who are following along.
I could be an expert on a couple of new programming languages by, perhaps even LISP.
There've been so many new developments in this area over the years. I could've been documenting them here...
Ah, well. No sense crying about mile spilt under the bridge!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Apple's Multi touch screen movie - Google Video
I love cool technology like this. I want this now, today, especially the interactive light box for photo manipulation.
Apple's Multi touch screen movie - Google Video (opens in a new window)
Apple's Multi touch screen movie - Google Video (opens in a new window)
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Support this book
The book I talked about in the last post was published some time ago.
It's available from Amazon.com. I've bought it. It's a great resource. Complete, approachable, with useful and understandable examples.
Highly recommended.
It's available from Amazon.com. I've bought it. It's a great resource. Complete, approachable, with useful and understandable examples.
Highly recommended.
| Practical Common Lisp |
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Saturday, September 04, 2004
Upcoming Lisp Book
After wandering the WikiWikiWeb for quite some time, I found out about a new Lisp book to be published sometime this year:
The author, Peter Seibel, has posted the book for review and comment on the Web.
| Practical Common Lisp |
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| (available as of 9/4/2004 for pre-order). |
The author, Peter Seibel, has posted the book for review and comment on the Web.
Friday, September 03, 2004
The WikiWikiWeb: you have to love it...
Tonight, somehow (and I'm not sure how this happened), I ended up at Ward Cunningham's WikiWiki site. I won't belabor the history or background of WikiWiki, as these topics are covered in detail over there.
However, the site is a HUGE repository of stuff related to programming languages, patterns, processes, practices and many other topics about Software Development in general. It even has quite a bit of information about Lisp.
After a couple of hours wending through the myriad links that relate to Lisp, I now know what a Smug Lisp Weenie is (and I don't want to be one), some of the differences between Lisp and Scheme, why we love and why we hate it, I've picked up a number of new URLs for later study, I've found out about many Lisp imple menta tions, how to handle incremental development with Lisp and lots of other little tid-bits.
And I don't even remember what led me...
Oh, yeah. I just remembered how I ended up at Ward's WikiWiki site. I was going to check out the CLiki (the Common Lisp Wiki), so I searched Google for "common lisp wiki cliki." I found a link to the the CLiki site, was well as a link to the CommonLisp topic on Ward's site.
I followed the link to Ward's site and never made it over to the CLiki site. I got completely side tracked at WikiWiki. Well, it's certainly not the first time that's happened. ;-)
If you've not spent any time at Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb, I highly recommend a thorough review. You'll find lots to see and much to learn.
However, the site is a HUGE repository of stuff related to programming languages, patterns, processes, practices and many other topics about Software Development in general. It even has quite a bit of information about Lisp.
After a couple of hours wending through the myriad links that relate to Lisp, I now know what a Smug Lisp Weenie is (and I don't want to be one), some of the differences between Lisp and Scheme, why we love and why we hate it, I've picked up a number of new URLs for later study, I've found out about many Lisp imple menta tions, how to handle incremental development with Lisp and lots of other little tid-bits.
And I don't even remember what led me...
Oh, yeah. I just remembered how I ended up at Ward's WikiWiki site. I was going to check out the CLiki (the Common Lisp Wiki), so I searched Google for "common lisp wiki cliki." I found a link to the the CLiki site, was well as a link to the CommonLisp topic on Ward's site.
I followed the link to Ward's site and never made it over to the CLiki site. I got completely side tracked at WikiWiki. Well, it's certainly not the first time that's happened. ;-)
If you've not spent any time at Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb, I highly recommend a thorough review. You'll find lots to see and much to learn.
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Whither .NET Lisp by Franz?
Here's a short email conversation about whether or not a .NET version of Franz Lisp exists. This started with a comment posted to this blog by Zach Beane (who apparently thinks I'm a "Smug Lisp Weenie." Is this a Good Thing? See the July 18 entry on his Live Journal blog).
Zach mentioned a posting on Google Groups discussing the existence of a .NET Lisp. I sent the following message to the author, Duane Rettig of Franz, Inc.:
I just read your discussion on the (lack of) virtues for targeting the .NET CLR for a Lisp implementation (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=47kp4j52c.fsf%40beta.franz.com).
Based on the date of your post, and that the study you referenced was two years old then, it's been four years since that study.
Has the CLR moved any closer to being Lisp-ready? Does Franz have any current plans to implement a .NET Lisp?
Thanks for your time.
Here is Duane's response:
We are researching it. I am not a part of that research, and I am getting ready for vacation (you just caught me before going out the door), so you might want to broaden your query to either sales@franz.com or support@franz.com. If you have our product, you can also ask your account representative directly.
Duane
So, per Duane's suggestion, I asked the same question of Franz' support team. Here's their response:
Thanks for your question. We are looking at ways to interface .Net with Allegro CL, but have not made any recent formal news announcements about it at this time. If you have special needs or things you'd like to see happen in this area, please let us know.
So, they're looking into it, but have nothing to report.
Too bad.
Zach mentioned a posting on Google Groups discussing the existence of a .NET Lisp. I sent the following message to the author, Duane Rettig of Franz, Inc.:
I just read your discussion on the (lack of) virtues for targeting the .NET CLR for a Lisp implementation (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=47kp4j52c.fsf%40beta.franz.com).
Based on the date of your post, and that the study you referenced was two years old then, it's been four years since that study.
Has the CLR moved any closer to being Lisp-ready? Does Franz have any current plans to implement a .NET Lisp?
Thanks for your time.
Here is Duane's response:
We are researching it. I am not a part of that research, and I am getting ready for vacation (you just caught me before going out the door), so you might want to broaden your query to either sales@franz.com or support@franz.com. If you have our product, you can also ask your account representative directly.
Duane
So, per Duane's suggestion, I asked the same question of Franz' support team. Here's their response:
Thanks for your question. We are looking at ways to interface .Net with Allegro CL, but have not made any recent formal news announcements about it at this time. If you have special needs or things you'd like to see happen in this area, please let us know.
So, they're looking into it, but have nothing to report.
Too bad.
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