lisp, and the language of list processing
Lisp is for building organisms - imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place. – Alan J. Perils in SICP
Introductions
reference + docs
implementations
- Clozure CL aka. CCL “is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history. Some distinguishing features of the implementation include fast compilation speed, native threads, a precise, generational, compacting garbage collector, and a convenient foreign-function interface.” for x86, x86-64, ppc32, ppc64, armv7l/armv6
extensions/libraries/programmes
- first stop is usually quicklisp
- Common Lisp Music (CLM) for synthesis + signal processing http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/clm.html
- SDL (simple direct media layer) bindings http://cl-sdl.sourceforge.net/
- OpenGL bindings
- for alegro + gcl → http://tapir-server.uwaterloo.ca/~mannr/software.html
- in general OpenGL bindings at CLiki
- opengl cffi bindings on http://common-lisp.net
- LUSH (universal shell / prototyping / etc+ ) http://lush.sourceforge.net/doc.html
- Wilbur is Nokia Research Center's toolkit for programming Semantic Web applications that use RDF and DAML+OIL (and XML) http://wilbur-rdf.sourceforge.net/
- networking
- tcp stack / low level networking with slitch > http://www.cliki.net/Slitch
reading
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start
- “On Lisp” by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
- the CLiki reference/discsussion site. “This site intends to provide a collection of links to and resources for free software implemented in Common Lisp and available on Unix-like systems. Listed software should satisfy the DFSG.” http://ww.telent.net/cliki/
- Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp http://www.pascalcostanza.de/lisp/guide.html
- revenge of the son of the LispMachine > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf
- “Succesful Lisp” by David B. Lamkins http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html
scheme
- MrEd and DrScheme http://www.drscheme.org/
- some links + reading http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/index.html
- Operating System level
- scheme based secure os http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/secureos.htm
- schemix (R5RSscheme in the linux kernel) http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/ and project page at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/schemix/
- using scheme in Kernel Space (most likely a unix derived one)
racket
- derived from mzscheme → now racket language
links
- Paul Graham has collected some lisp links
- programming languages > http://lambda.weblogs.com/
notes + threads to follow
- ASDF (def. system)+ UFFI (foreign function interface)
- generators
- genetic prgramming + evolving hardware (from John Koza)