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This ought to scare my manager and my team...
Definitely something I've scheduled to have a look at in the near future, especially since I've finally purchased a copy of PCL in the last couple of weeks.
posted by Doug @ 9:38 AM
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There is/was also Armed Bear common lisp, but last I looked, it was pretty half hearted to me.
There is also JScheme by peter norvig, which is still a little active, but its not common lisp (which may be a good thing ! or may not, depending on your point of view).
I was talking about what I was interested in doing on #lisp and this seemed to be highly recommended.
I looked a few years ago and was unimpressed with the Lisp in Java offerings in general. I did come across Armed Bear in my investigations. It was so long ago that all I remember is the name and the fact that it didn't do what I wanted at the time. The best I found back then was SISC.
Common Lisp is important to me, so I'd probably skip JScheme, though I may have to have a look if Norvig implemented it.
I'm learning Lisp and making a living with Java, so I'd like to use Lisp to produce Java code. I'll probably just right specific Lisp code to generate my Java code.
As on person put it on #lisp, just start with (format t "<my java source>") and work backwards. 8)
I see from your profile that Lisp is one of your interests. I tried starting up a Lisp group in Brisbane a few years ago (http://groups.google.com/group/Brisbane-Lisp-User-Group) but didn't put much energy into it at the time. Come join us (all 3 of us, 2 of which are still in Brisbane) if your interested.
Most lispers I know are ex-lispers, and happy to be. Not that they dislike the language, they just dislike common lisp and how dead things became for it. Most of them were quite impressed with being able to generate high performing apps and executables with it, but they have moved on.
So its more up to people with a new interest to keep it alive. I would be interested, for sure.
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