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A regular expression IDE for Emacs
Script of the week: sizes
Today's is a shell script called
sizes. It's a fairly
simplistic interface to the du commands which just
shows you all files and directories in the current directory that
are larger than one megabyte. Read More...
The groovy thing about Groovy
Life and times of a TCP packet
Today's article examines how a single connection works, from my computer on the island of Grenada to another computer sitting in southern France — in this case, the website of my favorite soap company, Marius Fabre. Read More...
Get Lisp running on OS X (easy version!)
A few days ago I posted instructions for getting a freeware based Common Lisp installation running on your Mac. I have since discovered a better alternative: just install LispWorks Personal Edition, a free environment with a superb set of debugging and profiling tools. Note that it does have the restriction that it will only run for five hours at a time. Once you hit the four hour mark, it gives you a warning, after which you should shutdown and restart the environment. But really, if you’re Lisping for more than four hours every day, that’s great news.
The other option is Lisp in a Box, which offers a completely self-contained freeware Lisp environment that’s ready to download and run on your Mac.
Since the Lisp in a Box site has gotten a little stale with
regard to OS X, I’ve created a new package based on Aquamacs, which
I call Ready Lisp. The advantage to this package is that it
downloads as a single Application bundle. You just drag-and-drop it
into your /Applications directory, double-click and
go! You’ll have all of the following tools immediately at your
disposal:
- Aquamacs 1.2a
- SBCL 1.0.10
- SLIME (CVS version 2007-09-27)
But the nicest part for those new to Emacs and Lisp is that everything is pre-configured and setup for you. Once you double-click the packaged application, you will find yourself at a REPL where you can start right away:
CL-USER> (format nil "Hello, world!")
"Hello, world!"
CL-USER>
The disk image is 44 Mb and can be downloaded from my Lisp repository over FTP. Also, please note that this package is for Intel Macs only. If you need an easy Lisp to run on the PowerPC architecture, I suggested you visit the Lisp in a Box site and download one of their packages based on OpenMCL.
Happy Lisping!
Common Lisp docs for DEVONthink
NOTE: I have removed the pre-built tarball of these links form my Lisp repository due to possible copyright concerns. I recommend that if you want to collect these documents into one place (for searching in programs like DEVONthink), that you use the tools available in such programs to download these resources from the Web:
- ANSI Common Lisp reference (from Franz)
- A web mirror of CLiki.net
- Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition (in HTML)
- The Common Lisp Cookbook
- EncyCMUCLopedia (excluding external resources)
- The Lisp HyperSpec 7.0
- LispWorks 5.0 Manuals (for Mac)
- ECL Manual 0.9i
- CMUCL Manual 19d
- SBCL Manual 1.0.10.55
- The book “On Lisp”, by Paul Graham, as PDF
- The book “Practical Common Lisp”, by Peter Seibel, as HTML
- The book “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”, as HTML
Common Lisp on Mac OS X
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Serving up Mercurial using mod_python
Intall BootCamp with multiple partitions
However, using BootCamp with this setup proved a challenge. The utility that comes from Apple for installing BootCamp will only let you have two partitions total: one for BootCamp, and one for OS X. But after a little bit of playing around with Disk Utility, I discovered a set of steps that will allow you to have as many partitions as you like in addition to BootCamp. Read More...