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alex-gutev
generic-cl
Common Lisp2019–2024
alex-gutev / generic-cl

generic-cl

Generic function interface to standard Common Lisp functions

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8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
164GitHub stars
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Generic function interface to standard Common Lisp functions

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Observed mentions: 2019-06-22 14:56:48 UTC to 2024-08-30 17:57:36 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Some bits are here: - https://github.com/alex-gutev/generic-cl/ gives generic equality, predicates and other base functions. - the https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ has nice topics and is growing. - there is also http://cl21.org/, which works©, but is staling. - to make an image, I think asdf:make is all one needs (see the Cookbook). - Coalton is bring ML-types on top of CL. - … and I love CLOS. > there are too many quirks in CL to appeal to people I saw quirks at first. What was part of the learning process, I do wonder. Last, there are many things we cannot do in Julia, like the Next browser :) https://github.com/next-browser/next
In Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (2017)
To refresh your ideas on CL (I know I needed it): https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl There may be more libraries than you think. Also recently some usual complaints have been fixed: - hard to set up environment ? -> http://portacle.github.io/ There's also Lem, and Atom is getting good. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... - horrible website ? http://common-lisp.net/ (they fixed it last year) Also http://lisp-lang.org/ - no cross-platform, featureful GUI library ? -> https://github.com/lispnik/iup/ (alpha) There's also Qtools for Qt4. And Ltk, but Tk lacks widgets. - no object-oriented, generic math or equality operators ? -> https://github.com/alex-gutev/generic-cl/ - no decent library for numerical computing ? -> https://github.com/numcl/numcl - waiting one month to publish your library into Quicklisp i
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s too much ? -> http://ultralisp.org/ - lack of online beginner friendly documentation ? -> https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
In The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]

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