HTML has no useful, built-in form widget for selecting from a large number of options. Some libraries offer Javascript-powered alternatives, but few of these are built to deal with more than a few hundred options. Read more…
Pike’s approach to threading is simple and mindful of the sanity of the programmer. Threading is available for all systems using Unix, POSIX, or Windows threads. Read more…
Not a whole lot new with this release. A new theme (newLISP dark) with a dark background and a couple of updates to recognized keywords. Download it here.
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. Read more…
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. Read more…