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The Eternal Flame (God Wrote In Lisp)

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A funny song. I was happy LISPers do look up to God...

(Source and copyright: http://infogroep.be/GodWroteInLisp)

Why Lisp is different

Lisp has a specific world view which makes it less compatible with the current outside world.

Let me list a few.

(Source and copyright: Rainer Joswig - http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/9066f18de540e235)

Lisp - The Ducati Of Programming Languages

Contents

[Source and copyright: www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp-ducati.html]

Introduction

One of the early summer evenings of 2003 I was sitting with a group of friends on a terrace of a lively New York City cafe. The wretched east coast humidity didn't yet settle in and we were enjoying a pleasant warm breeze while watching the flickering lights of cars pass by across the street. The guy sitting next to me was someone I haven't met before - a friend of a friend who happened to join us that evening. He was wearing a motorcycle jacket and had a helmet resting on his lap. Breaking the ice, I asked the first question that came to mind: "So what's it like to ride a bike?" I was genuinely interested but didn't expect to hear anything new. I would be unable to convey to someone the feeling of driving a car so how could I expect him to convey the feeling of riding a bike? A single experience would be worth a thousand words. His answer surprised me.

Slurping a file in Common Lisp

It should be easy to slurp a file. I could think of plenty of ways to do it, but it took a while to come up with something comparable with perl slurping.

Here's a rough evolution of my slurp-stream function. You can do anything you like with the code. It's there so you don't have to go through the discovery process I went through.

[Source and copyright www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/slurp.html]

CLIM turns the structure of traditional GUI libraries inside-out

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Robert Strandh is the author of the Gsharp music score editor. His opinion of McClim is quite high.

(From: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clump/month=20030901)

The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer

One of hackerdom's great heroic epics, free verse or no. In a few spare images it captures more about the esthetics and psychology of hacking than all the volumes on the subject put together.

Posted to Usenet by its author, Ed Nather, on May 21, 1983.

A song for Emacs 22nd Birthday

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Lisp Cycles - Elegant weapons for a more civilised age

This are your father's parentheses... Elegant weapons for a more civilised age.

[ Source and copyright: http://xkcd.com/297/]

Change the default screenshot format

In the Terminal type

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format
#  image_format can be jpg, pdf ,etc
killall SystemUIServer
# to implement the new screenshot format
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