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Subspace for the Lisp programming language
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I'm testing out Portacle, since I have a Windows laptop, I might as well try it out, I'll look into the common lisp website to help me get started. (Honestly, I'm not sure where to start on what I should make with Lisp, since I'm still slowly making my python Esolang) Maybe it's unnessasry to get Portacle, but I might be wrong.
💬 1 comment · 2025-11-01 · 6 months ago
what's your/the preferred way of figuring out how to use a package? I know i can use "describe" and how to find certain functions, but I'm looking for examples of putting it all together without diving into the source code for extensive lengths of time. Take Babel for instance, it's sparse on documentation, anywhere.
💬 1 comment · 2025-03-25 · 1 year ago
Currently going down the lisp rabbit hole and working through Common Lisp, a gentle introduction. What's your favorite intro book?
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2025-01-31 · 1 year ago
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte -- my favorite Lisp Book — This book has changed my brain. I cannot express how much joy I received from it. To be fair, you should work through 'On Lisp' by Paul Graham, as structurally Let Over Lambda starts with concepts where Graham left of and takes them to outer space. [https link] Available as a paperback-on-demand by author, or if you need a digital backup, look on Anna's archive.
💬 14 comments · 2 likes · 2025-01-19 · 1 year ago
Learning Lisp as a non prgrammer: AI to the rescue? — Edit - Corrected small mistake. Hi there! So I've been trying to learn Racket with the HTDP method as a non-programmer, and it's not going well... The people of the Racket community are lovely and willing to help, but the so-called "beginners" section of their forum is so intimidating, I just feel embarassed asking stupid questions. That forum does *not* differentiate between "Newcomers to Racket", and "Absolute noobs"... They all go in...
💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2024-12-16 · 1 year ago
CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI — gui framework for lisp. it is even possible to write android/ios applications.
💬 6 comments · 2024-04-05 · 2 years ago
this web page is written in lisp — it contains small lisp interpreter written in java script, and the rest is written in lisp. open page source and scroll. (:
💬 5 comments · 3 likes · 2023-12-07 · 2 years ago
Loving PicoLisp — I've gone through a few PicoLisp phases, each very short -- a week or two. I would stumble around, grumble about its weirdnesses, and go back to Common Lisp. However, it is tiny (~380KB - a bit bigger than I remember). It is plenty fast - loading the SpellBinding dictionary for maintenance, sorting it, or processing it to find potential games, takes way less than a second! With CL I actually had to work to get duplicate elimination to go under 10 seconds... So it's really...
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · 2023-10-16 · 3 years ago
Fun fact: SpellBinding was written in Common Lisp. Then ported to C as I didn't want to spin up a CL instance via CGI every time, out of respect for tilde.cafe...
💬 2 likes · 2023-07-24 · 3 years ago
What is your favorite Lisp dialect? — List out your favorite Lisp dialect(s) and reason(s) why you like them, but also flaw(s) with them, if there are any.
💬 10 comments · 2023-07-23 · 3 years ago · #dialects #discussion #Lisp #programming