gmane.lisp.clisp.announce

CLISP on Google SoC

Sam Steingold — 2012-04-26T19:32:14

Robert Harwood's proposal to finish CLISP Multithreading
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/threeoften/5004
has been accepted by Google (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/gnu).
Congratulations to Robert and all Lispers!

CLISP participates in Google Summer of Code

Sam Steingold — 2011-03-04T15:31:29

CLISP will try to participate in the Google Summer of Code
(http://code.google.com/soc/) program this year.
Please see our ideas here:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/GNU_application_for_Summer_of_Code_2011#GNU_CLISP
(also here: http://clisp.org/wanted.html)
Please volunteer and discuss on <clisp-devel>.

GNU CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07) released

Sam Steingold — 2010-07-07T18:12:02

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard, and offers many extensions.
It runs on most GNU and Unix systems (GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, IRIX, AIX, Mac OS X and others)
and on other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 95/98/ME)
and needs only 4 MB of RAM.
It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL,
while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications
compiled with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch,
Russian and Danish, and can be changed during run time.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP,
a foreign language interface, a socket interface, i18n, fast bignums,
arbitrary precision floats and more.
An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO.
GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.

More information at
  <http://clisp.cons.org/>,
  <http://www.clisp.org/>,
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/> and
  <http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>.
Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
  <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>
and its mirrors.


2.49 (2010-07-07)
=================

User visible changes
--------------------

* New command line option -disable-readline lets working around bugs and
  incompatibilities between readline CLISP was built against and the
  library actually installed.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp.html#opt-norl> for details.

* FFI:OPEN-FOREIGN-LIBRARY now accepts the :REQUIRE argument.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#dffi-open-lib> for details.

* New user variable CUSTOM:*USER-LIB-DIRECTORY* is respected by REQUIRE
  and used by "clisp-link install".
  Dynamic modules are now the default build option.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/require.html> and
  <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp-link.html> for details.

* Function RENAME-FILE now accepts :IF-EXISTS argument which determines
  the action when the destination exists, unless, of course, *ANSI* is T.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/file-func.html#rename-file> for details.

* The replacement value entered by the user in STORE-VALUE and USE-VALUE
  restarts is now EVALuated.

* The old user variable CUSTOM:*PRINT-CLOSURE* now controls interpreted
  closure output too (RFE#3001956). This is a tricky feature, read up!
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/multi-rep.html#pr-closure>.

* Module readline now supports readline 6.1.
  (Older versions are, of course, still supported).
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/readline-mod.html> for details.

* Module pcre now supports pcre 8.01.
  (Older versions are, of course, still supported).
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/pcre.html> for details.

* Module libsvm does not come with the upstream sources anymore, install
  locally and pass --with-libsvm-prefix to the top-level configure instead.
  All upstream versions up to 2.91 are supported.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/libsvm.html> for details.

* Module berkeley-db now supports Berkeley-DB 4.8.
  (Older versions are, of course, still supported).
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/berkeley-db.html> for details.

* Module postgresql now supports PostgreSQL 8.4.
  (Older versions are, of course, still supported).
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/postgresql.html> for details.

* Module pari has been updated to support both 64 & 32 bit platforms
  with and without GMP.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/pari.html> for details.

* New functions OS:VERSION-COMPARE et al call strverscmp.
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#strverscmp> for details.

* Bug fixes:
  + Do not eliminate function calls which are advertised to have
    exceptional situation in unsafe code (bug#2868166).
  + Fix an internal error in DECLAIM on bad OPTIMIZE quality (bug#2868147).
  + CLEAR-INPUT now clears the EOF condition on file streams (bug#2902716).
  + When quitting on a signal, never enter the debugger (bug#2795278).
  + Respect :FULL T in DIRECTORY :WILD-INFERIORS (bug#3009966).
  + Handle TWO-WAY-STREAM and ECHO-STREAM correctly by
    (SETF STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT) (bug#3020933).
  + Fix unbuffered output pipe stream initialization (bug#3024887).

* ANSI compliance:
  + Implement the ANSI issue COMPILER-DIAGNOSTICS:USE-HANDLER: use the
    CL Condition System for compiler diagnostics.
  + STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE on empty CONCATENATED-STREAMs now returns NIL
    because nothing can be read from such streams (bug#3014921).

3rd European Lisp Symposium

Sam Steingold — 2010-04-20T14:12:42

                     3rd European Lisp Symposium
                     ===========================



May 6-7, 2010, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Participation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Registration for the 3rd European Lisp Symposium (ELS 2010) is now
  open at [http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/].

Scope and Programme Highlights
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
  the discussion of all aspects of the design, implementation and
  application of any of the Lisp dialects.  We encourage everyone
  interested in Lisp to participate.

  As well as presentations of the accepted technical papers and
  tutorials, the programme features the following highlights:

  - Kent Pitman of HyperMeta Inc. will offer reflections on Lisp Past,
    Present and Future;

  - Pascal Costanza will lead a tutorial session on Parallel
    Programming in Common Lisp;

  - Matthias Felleisen of PLT will talk about languages for creating
    programming languages;

  - A TI Explorer Lisp Machine, having been unplugged for the best
    part of two decades, will be demonstrated;

  - there will be opportunities for attendees to give lightning talks
    and demos of late-breaking work.

Social events
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  - Symposium banquet (included with registration)
  - Excursion to Sintra (optional, Saturday May 8): for six centuries
    the favourite Summer residence of the Kings of Portugal, who were
    attracted by cool climates and the beauty of the town's setting.

Programme Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Local Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Programme Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + Marco Antoniotti, Universita Milano Bicocca, Italy
  + Giuseppe Attardi, Universita di Pisa, Italy
  + Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  + Irene Anne Durand, Universite Bordeaux I, France
  + Marc Feeley, Universite de Montreal, Canada
  + Ron Garret, Amalgamated Widgets Unlimited, USA
  + Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada
  + Antonio Leitao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
  + Nick Levine, Ravenbrook Ltd, UK
  + Scott McKay, ITA Software, Inc., USA
  + Peter Norvig, Google Inc., USA
  + Kent Pitman, PTC, USA
  + Christian Queinnec, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
  + Robert Strandh, Universite Bordeaux I, France
  + Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France
  + Barry Wilkes, Citi, UK
  + Taiichi Yuasa, Kyoto University, Japan

Registration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Registration is open at [http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/]
  and costs EUR120 (EUR60 for students) *until 22nd April*, and EUR200
  (EUR120 for students) afterwards.

  Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, coffee breaks, and
  the symposium banquet.  Accommodation is not included.