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I recently started learning Common Lisp using SBCL. How can I compile my Lisp programs into a Windows binary?
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I want to do some simulations with ACT-R and I will need a Common Lisp implementation. I have three Common Lisp implementations available: (1) CLISP [1], (2) ECL [1], and (3) SBCL [1]. As you might ...
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I was working in Emacs and then suddenly, the slime-repl sbcl says text is read only. Well that's great because now I can't type anything into it. How do I fix this?
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(David James both wrote the question and an answer. I'll edit it to conform to Stackoverflow standards.) Using SBCL you can compile Lisp code to machine code. Like Java, .net, C++ and even C you ...
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I'm wondering what are some efficient ways to debug Common Lisp interactively using Emacs and SLIME. What I did before: As someone who learned C and Python using IDEs (VS and PyCharm), I am used to ...
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I'm confused about how defun macro works, because (defun x () "hello") will create function x, but symbol x still will be unbound. If I'll bind some lambda to x then x will have a value, but it ...
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I have installed SBCL onto OSX through Macports. When inside the REPL, it would be very convenient to be able to use ↑ and ↓ to iterate through the previous commands (similar to the behavior in bash ...
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I want to learn and use SBCL because of its ease of learning and speed. (I've been playing with Lisp 3 years ago, and now am refreshing it.) But how can I learn what's included in the standard library,...
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As many other people interested in learning Lisp, I feel the resources available are not the best for beginners and eventually prevent many new people from learning it. Do you feel it could be created ...
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I am currently have a small program in Common Lisp, which I want to run as a shell script. I am using the SBCL and perfectly fine with this so will prefer to stay on this platform. :) I am aware ...
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I'm trying to learn common lisp currently and I've been using sbcl (I hope that's a decent implementation choice.) Coming from ruby and irb I find the automatic moved to a debugger on every mistake a ...
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I have a VPS with not very much memory (256Mb) which I am trying to use for Common Lisp development with SBCL+Hunchentoot to write some simple web-apps. A large amount of memory appears to be getting ...
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How can I configure SBCL so that it uses more memory than the default when I start it by using "M-x slime" in Emacs? From what I've seen online, the answer appears to be to call SBCL, passing the ...
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I would like to know where I should save my .sbclrc file. I tried saving it in my .sbcl folder, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm using Windows XP with Emacs version 23. I'm trying to set up ...
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BACKGROUND When using 64bit Steel Bank Common Lisp on Windows for a trivial identity function: (defun a (x) (declare (fixnum x)) (declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0))) (the fixnum x)) I ...
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Take this function: (defun sum-greater (x y z) (> (+ x y) z)) It's my understanding that in LISP the first element in a list always represents a function to be performed on the subsequent atoms/...
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This happens to me time and again: I define the class and forget that I wanted it funcallable or it is, say, Gtk widget class, thus it's metaclass needs to be stated. Once it is defined, however, SBCL ...
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I love the idea of image-based languages, and lately I've been toying with Common Lisp via sbcl. I've read in a few places about how through being able to save and load back an image of the virtual ...
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I've been dancing around LISP for decades, but now have decided to get serious. I'm going through the online version of Practical Common LISP. This is my setup: MacOSX 10.7.8 Xcode 4.5.2 SBCL 1.0.55....
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Anybody know what #+ and #- operators means in .sbclrc? I couldn't find it in the manual. I see #- in .sbclrc after I installed quicklisp: #-quicklisp (let ((quicklisp-init (merge-pathnames "...
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In Common Lisp (SBCL 1.0.58) why does the macro OR use a gensym, but not AND? For example, CL-USER> (macroexpand '(and 1 2 3 4 5)) (IF 1 (AND 2 3 4 5) NIL) T CL-...
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read-line and read-char both require you press Enter key after typing something. Is there any mechanism in Common Lisp that would allow the program to continue upon the press of any single character ...
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Using SBCL, I have the problem that my system defined via ASDF does not load, when the lisp code defines a string constant. Here's the code: constants.lisp (defconstant A 1.0) (defconstant B "B") ...
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I'm trying to figure out how to use the output stream of one program I start with RUN-PROGRAM so it can be used as the input of another program started with RUN-PROGRAM (i.e., the moral and perhaps ...
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I was trying to use the slime-connect function to get access to a remote server with sbcl. I followed all the steps from the slime.mov movie from Marco Baringer, but I got stuck when creating the ssh ...
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