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In defense of newLISP
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
Jul 15th, 2008 | Filed under Soap box -
SQL library for newLISP
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
Jul 14th, 2008 | Filed under Programming -
newLISP modules section
I have added a new area to the site specifically for newLISP modules. I am in the process of documenting all of my libraries and adding them to that page. A couple of notable modules: CSV – a module for parsing CSV files Mysql – a wrapper for the standard MySQL module, with some helpful [...]
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Locking with semaphores in newLISP
Recent development version of newLISP have a new forking mechanism that makes spawning new processes and collecting the results much simpler. Submit article
Jun 4th, 2008 | Filed under Programming -
newLISP to get Cilk-style concurrency
Multi-processing in newLISP can be a chore. All processes must be directly known to any others that will be accessing shared memory, which must be synchronized using semaphores. A new development release of newLISP (9.3.7) will change all that by adding Cilk-style primitives. Submit article
Apr 3rd, 2008 | Filed under ProgrammingTags: concurrency, newlisp