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Seeking early adopters for a CL product
by John Morrison 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Hi All; Can't think of a better place to find people to help us refine a fledgling CL product than this list. We are seeking early adopters for our distributed situational awareness platform, key bits of which are written in Common Lisp. It's a "local first" (completely self-hosted) slippy-map, plus: a 3D globe, a data fabric, an OpenStreetmap PostGIS database, a nominatim geocoder, etc. Here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bI7RyHD0pgkXdCDxk6Z4RoRwUB9QiFyv/view?usp=…> is the two-pager. Please send any replies not to the list, but to me directly. Thanks in advance, John Morrison (who actually used a wire-wrapped CADR back in the day, and owns a MacIvory whose Mac II host motherboard probably needs to be recapped) --- John Morrison <jm(a)symbolic-simulation.com> Chief Technology Officer Symbolic Simulation, LLC <https://www.symbolic-simulation.com> m: (617) 388-3071 <+1-617-388-3071> <https://www.symbolic-simulation.com> *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential, and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, retransmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.* --- John Morrison <jm(a)symbolic-simulation.com> Chief Technology Officer Symbolic Simulation, LLC <https://www.symbolic-simulation.com> m: (617) 388-3071 <+1-617-388-3071> <https://www.symbolic-simulation.com> *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential, and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, retransmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.*

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CLAST reworked
by Marco Antoniotti 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

Hi just in case you may be interested, I updated the CLAST documentation (and posted a blog post on https://within-parens.blogspot.com/2024/06/clast-reworked.html) All the best Marco -- Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY

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a short venting about scheme
by Attila Lendvai 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

context: i'm diving deeper into scheme for the first time in my life... and i have to say that i used to have this impression throughout the years i was hacking CL that scheme is a more cleaned up lisp, that it's more thought out than CL. but i don't think that anymore. it's simply leaner, but it's worse at some key parts (and it's not even due to hard compromises, it's simply not designed well at some parts). one example, that initiated this venting, is the API of WITH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER. i don't want to get too deep into this, i just want to express a glimpse of contrary opinion that i have never met thoughout my years of lisp hacking: scheme is not a cleaned up CL. it's just another dialect. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Keep this thought handy when you feel a bit of rage coming on: it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real person doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance ― unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” — Marcus Aurelius (121–180), 'Meditations'

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CLAST: major refactoring
by Marco Antoniotti 23 Jun '24

23 Jun '24

Hi I just pushed a major rework of the CLAST internals. The system is now pretty much usable, of course with an emphasis on the "pretty much". I will welcome any bug report to improve it. Tested on LW, SBCL and Allegro 11.x. CMUCL and CCL will work as well (just need a little time). Probably also ECL. The naughty Java crowd giving us ABCL instead needs to do some work (naughty, naughty, naughty)! People working on other implementations, please drop me a line. https://clast.sf.net (The documentation is not up to date, but that's minor) Enjoy -- Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 DISCo, University of Milan-Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it Viale Sarca 336 I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY

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