Category Archives: lisp

The Best Way to Learn – Use the Source

Posted on December 6, 2007 by proj

Once again I have found the best way to learn is to go to the source. If you really want to learn something you have to find dig into the implementation, read the classics and seek out the originators. In … Continue reading →

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Small Fix for Binsearch In ‘ANSI Common Lisp’ by Paul Graham

Posted on November 23, 2007 by proj

I found a small bug in the binary search described in Paul Graham’s book ‘ANSI Common Lisp’. When I wrote a few unit tests for the code snippet on page 60 I found that there is unbounded recursion when the … Continue reading →

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REPL to the rescue

Posted on October 10, 2007 by proj

From the book Practical Common Lisp “Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing … Continue reading →

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