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12:42:59
cuso4
Oh, I didn't mean that it is a bad book and that I am not planning to read it. It is just that I have exams this week.
12:43:36
jackdaniel
I'm not suggesting you say that, just noticing that you don't have time / you are reluctant to look in the literature
12:45:04
jackdaniel
add above statements and you end up with lack of the subject understanding on your exam
12:48:51
bnntt
Just wondering if anyone can recommend a good book for learning common lisp? I'm a CS student and want to learn it in my spare time
12:49:23
minion
bnntt: look at pcl: pcl-book: "Practical Common Lisp", an introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, available at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and in dead-tree form from Apress (as of 11 April 2005).
13:02:20
pjb
cuso4: (. a b) is not valid syntax. You would have to write (\. a b) or (|.| a b) ; once you escape the symbol named ".", you can also use it in infix position of you would like: (a \. b).
13:03:27
pjb
cuso4: alternatively, you can define a reader macro, for example, $ that would parse a LaTeX expression. $ a \cdot b $ --> (cdot a b)
19:45:05
phoe
Xach: I suggest you ask on the elsconf mailing list. If any place is established, it'll be established there.
20:27:09
Shinmera
jmercouris: Well, the "Colleen project". Colleen the bot here is currently running on Maiden: http://shirakumo.github.io/maiden/
20:29:56
Shinmera
Xach: I didn't find anything that was close, cheap, and a large hotel, which is a departure from previous years. Having a lispers hotel was quite nice.
21:24:55
jmercouris
Shinmera: what about is outdated? what's the new project? has IRC somehow changed making the framework not working?
21:25:31
jmercouris
let's try that again: "What about it is outdated? What's the new project? Has IRC somehow changed making the framework invalidated?
21:26:39
jackdaniel
outdated as in: author came up with something new (probably better) and lost interest in the predecessor
21:31:58
Shinmera
jmercouris: Colleen is broken and badly designed in several respects that aren't directly related to IRC.
21:32:15
Shinmera
jmercouris: Maiden is both more sensible and a lot more ambitious in what it tries to do.
23:15:06
rumbler31
and maybe this is a dumb question, but is IOlib, the CL library, a cffi wrapper for the c library? or a rewrite?
23:15:07
Xach
rumbler31: iolib, the lisp library, has a C component called libfixposix. Is that what you mean, or something else?
23:15:27
rumbler31
well i'm not sure what I mean, I was under the impression that there was a c iolib
23:16:43
rumbler31
a friend is looking to build a product for which I thought iolib would be a good use case