At the Lisp50 event within OOPSLA in October, conversations between talks led to the question of what's next for Common Lisp. One candidate for extensions is Qi Lisp, which adds ML style of pattern matching while preserving access to all existing CL functionality and without being forced into a purely functional programming world. The second edition of the book is available which essentially freezes the language spec for the time-being. The print edition has been available for only a matter of days, so it doesn't get much newer than that! These are print-on-demand books, so for now, you must order directly from the publisher. Alternatively, you can read an HTML version on the web site. http://www.lambdassociates.org/ With that... Has anyone here experienced Qi yet? --either the current Qi II or the original from years ago? Thoughts? Opinions? I just received my copy of the book and previously went through the "Qi for Lisp programmers" tutorial on the web site. I'm intrigued and still learning the language. (In the mean time, however, ANSI CL is still my principal language.) Thanks, -Daniel -- first name at last name dot com (206) 250-9830
Hi Daniel, I have installed Qi under Lispworks and have also gone through the tutorials but I have not done any projects with it yet. Not because I don't want to but real life work has been keeping me busy. I will probably start learning it by doing a few http://projecteuler.net/ problems with it. I also ordered the book, how long did it take you to get yours? Anthony On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Daniel Pezely <djp07@speakeasy.net> wrote:
At the Lisp50 event within OOPSLA in October, conversations between talks led to the question of what's next for Common Lisp.
One candidate for extensions is Qi Lisp, which adds ML style of pattern matching while preserving access to all existing CL functionality and without being forced into a purely functional programming world.
The second edition of the book is available which essentially freezes the language spec for the time-being. The print edition has been available for only a matter of days, so it doesn't get much newer than that!
These are print-on-demand books, so for now, you must order directly from the publisher.
Alternatively, you can read an HTML version on the web site.
http://www.lambdassociates.org/
With that... Has anyone here experienced Qi yet? --either the current Qi II or the original from years ago?
Thoughts? Opinions?
I just received my copy of the book and previously went through the "Qi for Lisp programmers" tutorial on the web site. I'm intrigued and still learning the language. (In the mean time, however, ANSI CL is still my principal language.)
Thanks, -Daniel -- first name at last name dot com (206) 250-9830
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Anthony Fairchild wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I have installed Qi under Lispworks and have also gone through the tutorials but I have not done any projects with it yet. Not because I don't want to but real life work has been keeping me busy. I will probably start learning it by doing a few http://projecteuler.net/ problems with it. I also ordered the book, how long did it take you to get yours?
Anthony
The book came in about 3-4 days via USPS, which is very fast considering that it shipped from the UK. As with you, life kept me from going deep into this earlier. Getting the physical book was more about the vote of confidence regarding the project. Fortunately, I have a bit of time once again to finally begin... I'll stick with using SBCL for my back-end. From there, I'll work on some AI examples from one of Norvig's books. -Daniel
Also about 3-4 days for me. Chapters 16 & 17 looks good regarding application the language. .Justin On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Pezely <djp07@speakeasy.net> wrote:
Anthony Fairchild wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I have installed Qi under Lispworks and have also gone through the tutorials but I have not done any projects with it yet. Not because I don't want to but real life work has been keeping me busy. I will probably start learning it by doing a few http://projecteuler.net/ problems with it. I also ordered the book, how long did it take you to get yours?
Anthony
The book came in about 3-4 days via USPS, which is very fast considering that it shipped from the UK. As with you, life kept me from going deep into this earlier. Getting the physical book was more about the vote of confidence regarding the project. Fortunately, I have a bit of time once again to finally begin... I'll stick with using SBCL for my back-end. From there, I'll work on some AI examples from one of Norvig's books. -Daniel
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