An ancient paper (July 1978: 30 years ago) from the long gone Lisp Bulletin by Harald Wertz.
The system describes attempts to improve incompletely specified Lisp programs, without however resorting to more information, in the form of specifications, test cases or the like.
Found here.
While reading a (now forgotten) comp.lang.lisp post, I saw the publication ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers mentioned. Unfortunately I don’t have access to this part of the digital library (for that you need to be a paying member). Perhaps this is something in to which it is worth looking.
Any time folks are interested in something which is now seen as arcane ought to look into that topics history. With enough research, the air of mysticism is usually lifted enough so that one may start to grow a more accurate perspective on the topic. This is especially relevant for Lisp and programmers today.
During my vacation, I skimmed Paul Graham’s book On Lisp. There were many interesting bits in there:
The Common Lisp HyperSpec is a hypertext version of the ANSI Common Lisp standard comprising approximately 15MB of data in 2300 files which contain approximately 105,000 hyperlinks.
(via Wikipedia)
In this comp.lang.lisp post Ron Garret explains how he found and is in the process of exploring a copy of P-Lisp (PLisp) for the Apple IIe.
Addendum 06/24/08:
Ron explains how he created and released a disk image here.
This presentation at the Vancouver Lisp Users Group sounds like a lot of fun.
The next Chicago Lisp meeting is coming up this Friday, 5/16/8. Here are the relevant links:
Chicago Lisp Information Page (for now check here first)
Chicago Lisp Homepage (eventually this will be the master information site)
I will be heading down for this meeting, and presenting at it, so if you would like to carpool let me know!
Addendum 05/21/08:
Here is the presentation and source material from my talk. This is the 25lb version of the presentation; it is not light advocacy stuff, rather, it is just a lot of crunchy bits that are meant to be discussed interactively.
Addendum 05/27/08:
Peter posted a great recap of the presentation.
Addendum: 08/17/08
Here is an updated presentation and materials, v2.01.
Here is the classic programming “how do you shoot yourself in the foot” joke, brought to Lisp by someone who “gets it”!
TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot.
LISP: You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds…
(via DaniWeb)
Here is an interesting post about hygiene and its sociological impact on the two Lisp groups of Schemers and Common Lispers.
While the post itself is a troll, the author:
The interesting thing about this post is that the only difference between this post being a troll and an educational article is how the content was delivered. If you remove the cruddy name-calling, whining, and complaining; it would have been a really good post on the difference between the languages. That is wild!
(reference mysophobic)
