23:19:52emaczenhaving to program a little bit with cocoa/objective-c makes me VERY thankful for common-lisp, there is some strange stuff out there
23:22:16jmercourisemaczen: objective-c is really quite good when you use it in its normal context
23:22:39jmercourisemaczen: You can also get access to the shared application via another function called like [sharedApplication] or something, I can't remember
23:23:50jmercourisemaczen: at any rate, *nsapp* should probably be bound
23:27:23jmercourisemaczen: or rather set, in lisp terminology
23:30:16asarchDoes SBCL interprets the abstract syntax tree or does it compiles it?
23:31:09jmercourisasarch: Does it not have to do both?
23:46:59dmilesi am calling WAM-CL a compiler since before i run a form at the repl i convert it to prolog source, then on several versions of prolog (especially the one i am using) code is compiled whenever it is called
23:50:16dmilesso (disassemble ..) calls clause/2 (which decompiles the Zip-WAM) and prints out what was threre
1:26:12rpgdmiles: compiling one high level language to another does seem a little perverted. But on the other hand, everyone's compiling stuff to JavaScript these days, so go figure!
1:27:15rpgdmiles: Once you get WAM-CL done, you can run Peter Norvig's Prolog-in-Lisp on it, which will almost be an MCEscher drawing!
1:44:39Xach_that happened with the lisp jvm and abcl, didn't it?
1:51:16aethrpg: I personally see Lisp as more of a platform than a language.
1:56:42aethCompiling things to and from Lisp just seems so natural.