Common Lisp has often been called a “multi-paradigm” language, in that it allows you to program in many different styles, sometimes simultaneously: imperative, object-oriented, functional, statically typed, etc. It depends on what style you want to adopt, how your code will look.
A couple of pathname issues were discovered in the release of Ready Lisp that was posted yesterday, leading to the inability to load asdf-install (or use it). These have been fixed in the new release uploaded today. If you now use asdf-install and choose a “system-wide” installation, the installed packages get saved in your Application bundle. However, due to the way that asdf-install itself works, if you then move your application bundle to another directory, symbolic links in the systems directory will get broken. So I recommend installing new packages into your home directory instead.
Also, the sources for SBCL are now included, meaning that if you use M-. (jump to definition) and pick a function like mapcar, it will drop you into the source code for SBCL’s mapcar implementation.
The new version is available here (the old link still works, it is now a reference to that one).
Lastly, I’ve created a new home page for the Ready Lisp project, which now lives here.
There is a new version of Ready Lisp for Mac OS X available. This version is based on SBCL 1.0.12.17, and requires OS X Leopard 10.5. The most notable change from the previous version is that it is now fully universal, supporting PowerPC and 32- bit and 64-bit Intel machines. Also, threading has been turned on for Intel processor. See the NEWS below.
Recently at work my manager asked me to create a server solution that was both, “Fun, and easy for me to get things running quickly in.” Well, to me that’s a roundabout way of saying Common Lisp, so I started looking at possible solutions based on that platform. The solution will run as a webserver in a potentially high-demand scenario, so I figured it would pay to compare the options available to me.
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