There's a place in Belgium called #Lisp. Arthur Norman used to have a photograph of the Lisp garbage collector truck (what in Scotland we'd call the scaffie wagon) on the streets of Lisp on the wall of his office at Trinity College, Cambridge.
I'm wondering whether anyone has a copy of such a photo (or could take one), and if so, whether they would share it?
Hello there, I was recently laid off from my 10-year job as a Software Engineer. I'm looking for another Software Engineer position.
At my former position, I worked as a backend developer who managed data and made reports using Perl. I am also familiar with Lisp because I used it as a web scraper turned Perl script. I also familiar with Java since I'm the owner of @morobot
I'm familiar with Python since my blog uses it.
The ACM Digital Library now gives free access to the full text of the classic "Anatomy of LISP" by John Allen (McGraw-Hill, 1978). A great historical and practical resource.
A few years ago I have created a visual overview of (mostly) Common Lisp related books... Good thing: even the older ones can be useful, given that the core language hasn't changed that much over the last years.
In the 1980s the chat program TALK of Interlisp-D supported rich text and images in messages.
It's built from the TEdit rich text editor and the Sketch drawing program which expose their functionality as Lisp APIs. Think of TEdit and Sketch used this way as widgets of a GUI framework that applications can incorporate.
This screenshot is from the documentation of TALK:
Mark Watson (@mark_watson) wrote this #eBook to introduce #CommonLisp to developers who already know how to program in another language. If you are a complete beginner, you can still master the material in this book with some effort.
Interlisp has been supporting syntax highlighting of code since before it was cool. Here the code of some Lisp functions is shown in SEdit structure editor windows, all under Medley Online on my Chromebox.
If you've got questions about Emacs, Guix, Guile, or other related topics and want a friendly place to ask them, come check out the new System Crafters Forum!
In about 15 minutes, I'll be live on Flux Harmonic to try some new, unreleased features of Guile Hoot to rewrite parts of my Autumn Lisp Game Jam entry Cybersol from JavaScript to Scheme!
This will give us a good sense for how much more elegantly we can express the same logic in an objectively better language :)