I have read a lot that LISP can redefine syntax on the fly, presumably with macros. I am curious how far does this actually go? Can you redefine the language structure so much that it borderline becomes a compiler for another language? For example, could you change the functional nature of LISP into a more object oriented syntax and s...
I really feel that I should learn Lisp and there are plenty of good resources out there to help me do it. I'm not put off by the complicated syntax, but where in "traditional commercial programming" would I find places it would make sense to use it instead of a procedural language. Is there a commercial killer-app out there that's been...
Hi, I've been wanting to teach myself Lisp for a while. However, all the interpreters of which I've heard involve some flavor of emacs. Are there any command line interpreters, such that I could type this into the command line: lispinterpret sourcefile.lisp just like I can run perl or python. While I'd also like to become more fa...
For context, I am something of an emacs newbie. I haven't used it for very long, but have been using it more and more (I like it a lot). Also I'm comfortable with lisp, but not super familiar with elisp. What I need to do is bind a regular expression to a keyboard combination because I use this particular regex so often. What I've be...
I'd like to take an existing application (written in OCaml) and create an Emacs "interface" for it (like, for example, the Emacs GDB mode). I would prefer to do this without writing a ton of Lisp code. In MVC terms, I'd like for the View to be Emacs, but for the Model and Controller to remain (primarily) OCaml. Does anybody know of a wa...
Hello, I have been fascinated towards LISP considering it's not so easy to read syntax and people's (read Paul Graham) claim of it being so awesomely awesome. Out of curiosity, I tried to get my hands on it. However, after downloading LISP Studio, I haven't been able to get any further. First, the IDE sucks...its no way near a profe...
I like to study languages outside my comfort zone, but I've had a hard time finding a place to start for functional languages. I heard a lot of good things about Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs, but when I tried to read through it a couple of years ago it just seemed to whiz over my head. I do way better with books t...
I've just started learning Lisp and I can't figure out how to compile and link lisp code to an executable. Im using clisp and "clisp -c" produces two files .fas and .lib, what do I do next to get an exeutable? ...
NOTE: I've closed this question because it turns out that there was nothing wrong with my program that should have caused it to behave as it did, and it was likely a compiler bug or something. I'm also now using the style that John recommended, it looks much nicer than the code I posted here. - - -- --- ----- -------- ------------- I'...
Depending on my mood I seem to waffle back and forth between wanting a Lisp-1 and a Lisp-2. Unfortunately beyond the obvious name space differences, this leaves all kinds of amusing function name/etc problems you run into. Case in point, trying to write some code tonight I tried to do (map #'function listvar) which, of course, doesn't ...
I find myself doing this sort of thing all the time. I've been considering writing a macro/function to make this sort of thing easier, but it occurs to me that I'm probably reinventing the wheel. Is there an existing function that will let me accomplish this same sort of thing more succinctly? (defun remove-low-words (word-list) ...
I have been searching everywhere for this functionality in lisp, and have gotten nowhere. find the index of something in a list. example: (index-of item InThisList) replace something at a specific spot in a list. example: (replace item InThisList AtThisIndex) ;i think this can be done with 'setf'? return an item at a specific index. ...
I have a function that gets x(a value) and xs(a list) and removes all values that are bigger than x from the list. Well it doesn't work, can you tell me why? (defun biggerElems(x xs) (let ((xst)) (dolist (elem xs) (if (> x elem) (setf xst (remove elem xs)))) xst)) ...
Hey everyone, I've been making my way through The Little Schemer and was wondering what environment/ide/interpreter would be best to use in order to test any of the Scheme code I jot down for myself. Thanks ...
I've been working through Practical Common Lisp and as an exercise decided to write a macro to determine if a number is a multiple of another number: (defmacro multp (value factor) `(= (rem ,value ,factor) 0)) so that : (multp 40 10) evaluates to true whilst (multp 40 13) does not The question is does this macro leak in some way?...
I've recently had a need to do a bit of lisp editing and I found the nifty Ready Lisp package for OS X, which is great, except Aquamacs automatically uses a proportional font (which is idiotic, IMHO) and I want to change it to a monospace font. However, I'm not really much of an EMACS user, and the preferences menu in Aquamacs is less th...
I keep hearing that Lisp is a really productive language, and I'm enjoying SICP. Still, I'm missing something useful that would let me replace PHP for server-side database interaction in web applications. Is there something like PHP's PDO library for Lisp or Arc or Scheme or one of the dialects? ...
I've been attempting to write a Lisp macro that would perfom the equivalent of ++ in other programming languages for semantic reasons. I've attempted to do this in several different ways, but none of them seem to work, and all are accepted by the interpreter, so I don't know if I have the correct syntax or not. My idea of how this woul...
How do I get started? ...
Will Lisp ever become super popular? ...