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"Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic, functional programming language. CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible, then of Karlsruhe University, and Michael Stoll, then of Munich University, both in Germany. It implements the language described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard with many extensions..."

"The task here is to explore connecting Lisp to a MySql database. I used synaptic on my Ubuntu system to install mysql-server and cl-sql. A simple database was created on mysql. The aim is to access the database from Lisp: search for entries, get back information, add new entries, etc. ..."

"Programming AI using standard programming languages, e.g., C/C++ or Java is not a good idea. It's too general purpose language. I'm considering to select between (Common) Lisp ..." -- Cool, but it's better on GNU systems ;-)

"ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany. It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard..."

"The code that implements Arc illustrates many useful programming techniques. Some of the techniques occur multiple times, and can be considered idioms of Arc programming; techniques that can be applied to many problems. This article describes some of the most common idioms, and how they can be used in Arc programming.

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"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.

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"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.

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"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.

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"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.

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Hey, everyone, Arc is out! As if you didn’t know. I mean, I think the internet backbone has been saturated with refreshing news.ycombinator.com to be able to post the next reply.

But seriously, as one of my last blog posts, I thought I might shed a meager light on the issue. There are a lot of statements, many true, many untrue, many other, that have been made about Arc. I’d like to address some of them, one at a time.

First, though, if you don’t know, Arc is a recently-released Lisp programming language by Lisp pundit Paul Graham. He is also the guy who started the Y Combinator venture capital firm. And he wrote news.ycombinator.com in Arc before he released the language to the public. Now it’s out, and look at the raucous.

Hey, everyone, Arc is out! As if you didn’t know. I mean, I think the internet backbone has been saturated with refreshing news.ycombinator.com to be able to post the next reply.

But seriously, as one of my last blog posts, I thought I might shed a meager light on the issue. There are a lot of statements, many true, many untrue, many other, that have been made about Arc. I’d like to address some of them, one at a time.

First, though, if you don’t know, Arc is a recently-released Lisp programming language by Lisp pundit Paul Graham. He is also the guy who started the Y Combinator venture capital firm. And he wrote news.ycombinator.com in Arc before he released the language to the public. Now it’s out, and look at the raucous.

"Anyone who has ever learned to program in Lisp will tell you it is very different from any other programming language. It is different in lots of surprising ways- This comic book will let you find out how Lisp's unique design makes it so powerful!..."

Lisp is used by weirdos who do weirdo science.

– Richard Gabriel

 Image above sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

Lisp is used by weirdos who do weirdo science.

– Richard Gabriel

 Image above sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

"Richard Stallman was reading computer books before he'd ever seen a computer. When the Sixties Revolution was running out of steam, he was liberating MIT computers from behind locked doors and helping set off the next great Boomer movement. Though he disdained hippies and radicals in his youth, today, as the leader of the Free Software Movement, he's a long-haired rebel coder-writer with a cause, and an idealistic thorn in the side of the cyber world's killer-app capitalists..."