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newLISP’s find-all utility is exceptionally powerful, especially when coupled with rich matching functions like match, regex, and unify. find-all combines search and substitution into a fast, comprehensive function for extracting data from lists and strings. Submit article

For the past few days have been spent trying to get the newLISP MySQL module to work with the 64-bit version of the libmysqlclient library. Here is what I did to get things working properly. Submit article

In Python, everything is an object. Variables are technically names for references to objects. Therefore, when passing an argument to a function, what is in fact being passed is the value of the reference. This leads to some useful techniques. Submit article

The newLISP SQL library is a set of classes and functions to ease generation of SQL code in newLISP. The module is not yet feature-complete but is in a usable state. Submit article

Recent development version of newLISP have a new forking mechanism that makes spawning new processes and collecting the results much simpler. Submit article