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Sorting algorithms used in the CL implementations
Which sorting algorithm should one implement when developing a program? The best answer is probably none. Use the sort provided by your system/library/etc. Unless you know your input data has some...
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Macros Design Patterns
I was reading the thread What are some fun or useful macros? on reddit and it reminded me of another thread that appeared in the Pro mailing list. These kind of threads are always enjoyable because...
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zsort: portable sorting algorithms in Common Lisp
zsort is a library that I started working on as a simple hobby project. More or less around the same time I decided to check which algorithms the different Common Lisp implementations use. It is now...
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A note on shortcircuiting of argument evaluation in #’
There is an interesting thread in the Clozure Common Lisp development mailing list about argument evaluation in #’<. Until now, CCL was implementing shortcircuiting when evaluating the arguments of...
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Common Lisp on .NET ?
For the past months I have spent most of my time on .NET using C# but I also would have liked to use Common Lisp on it. I do not know of a CL implementation for .NET and I read some time ago that...
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ELS2014: Proceedings, Videos and Slides
The organizers of this year’s European Lisp Symposium made available all the videos of the talks with the respective slides, as well as the PDF containing all the accepted papers. This is really great...
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GP code on Github
Some time ago I got an email asking for the code of one of my old papers. Unfortunately the code was lost. But that reminded me that I still had some other code that could actually be made available....
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More CL libs on Github
Recently I made available some GP code I had in Common Lisp (see previous post). Today I also put on my github account the library I did for Ant Colony Optimzation (cl-aco) and a few others like...
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