From the monthly archives: November 2007
I just discovered the following blog article by Bill Clementson, from way back in 2003. Luckily, the links still worked, so I was able to get Info pages today for the Common Lisp HyperSpec courtesy of the GCL project.
Once installed, I found I could not easily lookup documentation for, say, mapcar, because [...]
This week’s script of the week is so simple, it doesn’t really deserve to be called a script. But since it’s highly useful and comes as a surprise to many people that it can be done so easily, here it is.
In my earlier article on running Hunchentoot behind Apache, I mentioned that it would not be very difficult to have Common Lisp persist your runtime state across a system reboot. Well, after a bit of work, I now have that support available. I’ve revised the article to reflect these changes, so please read there [...]
After upgrading my system to Leopard this weekend, I decided to refresh Ready Lisp as well. It now contains both 32-bit and 64-bit builds of SBCL (which has been bumped to 1.0.11), so if you have a Core 2 Duo machine, you’ll be running Lisp at full 64-bit! Alas, Emacs itself cannot support 64-bit as [...]
I wrote yesterday about setting up Hunchentoot, a Common Lisp web server running behind Apache, for rendering dynamic web pages in Lisp. What I neglected to mention was how one goes about coding such pages. Fortunately, that’s the easiest part of all, so I wanted to provide a very short primer on getting your first Lisp web pages up and running.
It’s hard for me to think of a more ideal platform for web design than Common Lisp. Imagine having a system that runs indefinitely — with the ability to “snapshot” its running state and restore exactly where you left off after reboot — where updates can be applied live at a functional-level granularity, from anywhere. Oh, and let’s not forget the remote debugging and inspection capabilities! And I thought ASP.NET was nice.
Where Lisp lacks today is primarily in easy to use, pre-packaged services. One of these is getting it to run behind Apache, which although easy to do, took a bit of figuring out from several different web pages. Hopefully I can share how simple it is to get such a system running, so you can try out this highly understated environment for yourself.
I haven’t written much this past week because I’ve been upgrading all the home’s machines to Leopard. So far it’s gone very smoothly, and I like the new OS!
The script for this week is about disk images…
