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newLISP receives an unexpected level of hostility from lispers. Languages like Arc and newLISP share an enmity that stems from the assumption that these languages are in some way attempting to replace Common Lisp. This is not the case. Submit article

Profiling is one of the most important steps in writing software. Once a package is written, profiling greatly helps to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies by showing how an application spends its time. How to profile a lisp application is a common question among those new to lisp. Luckily, profiling lisp is simple with emacs and [...]

Django has a very handy model method in its database library called get_or_create, which either creates a new record using the keyword arguments passed as field values or gets a record using the arguments passed. Submit article

One of the handier features of modern functional languages like Erlang and OCaml is the use of unification to match arity against function definitions. The ability to define a function in terms of the type and number of arguments passed is both expressive and useful. Submit article

Once the library has been defined and loaded into the Lisp image, work can begin on defining C routines in Lisp. Submit article