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May 12, 2008

newLISP 9.3.12 Released

Posted: 2008-05-12 06:06:35
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newLISP 9.3.12 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: support for event-driven synchronization in the Cilk multiprocessing interface, support for the 'series' function taking a lambda expression, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 30, 2008

Next (boston lispers) Meeting on May 27

Posted: 2008-04-30 06:17:03
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It has been announced that the next (boston lispers) meeting will be held on May 27, 2008.

April 29, 2008

newLISP 9.3.11 Released

Posted: 2008-04-29 06:15:47
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newLISP 9.3.11 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: new functions for customizing newLISP's interactive shell, improved HTTP request pre-processing, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 27, 2008

Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.2 Released

Posted: 2008-04-27 10:00:06
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Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.2 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes: separate variable and function namespaces, macro-related cleanups, pattern aliases, and other changes.

April 22, 2008

newLISP 9.3.10 Released

Posted: 2008-04-22 06:22:29
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newLISP 9.3.10 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: changes and bug fixes for the Cilk interface, reference parameter passing with context/default functor for built-in functions taking lists or strings, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 16, 2008

newLISP 9.3.8 Released

Posted: 2008-04-16 06:10:07
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newLISP 9.3.8 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: refinements to the Cilk API, Guiserver fixes, and other changes.

April 15, 2008

SBCL 1.0.16 Released

Posted: 2008-04-15 06:15:58
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.16 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: improved code generation, speed optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 02, 2008

newLISP 9.3.6 Released

Posted: 2008-04-02 06:14:11
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newLISP 9.3.6 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: 'wait-pid' changes and refinements, default values in 'lookup', bug fixes for the new namesapce hash functions, and other changes.

March 28, 2008

LispWorks 5.1 Released

Posted: 2008-03-28 06:13:14
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LispWorks 5.1 has been released. LispWorks is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and UNIX.

This release includes: support for LispWorks as a dynamic library, a new profiling API, IDE improvements, improved AMOP compliance, 64-bit Cocoa on Leopard, Vista-related improvements, OLE embedding support, bug fixes, and other changes.

March 27, 2008

newLISP 9.3.5 Released

Posted: 2008-03-27 06:18:41
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newLISP 9.3.5 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: improved namespace hashing, support for the precompilation of regex patterns, bug fixes, and other changes.

March 26, 2008

Next Hamburg Lisp Meeting on Mar. 26

Posted: 2008-03-26 06:16:23
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It has been announced that the next Hamburg Lisp Meeting will be held on March 26, 2008.

March 24, 2008

Next LispSTL Meeting on Mar. 28

Posted: 2008-03-24 06:14:27
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It has been announced that the next St. Louis Lisp User's Group meeting will be held on March 28, 2008.

March 22, 2008

ELS'08 Registration Now Open

Posted: 2008-03-22 07:53:27

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It has been announced that registration is now open for the 1st European Lisp Symposium. The symposium will be held in Bordeaux, France, on May 22 and 23, 2008.

Macintosh Common Lisp 5.2 Released

Posted: 2008-03-22 07:51:12
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MCL 5.2 has been released. It is a Common Lisp implementation for the Macintosh.

March 20, 2008

ClearLisp 1.1 Released

Posted: 2008-03-20 21:21:14
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ClearLisp 1.1 has been released. It is a Common Lisp interpreter for .NET.

This release includes: additions to the standard library, bug fixes, and other changes.

March 18, 2008

newLISP 9.3.4 Released

Posted: 2008-03-18 06:13:45
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newLISP 9.3.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: a quicker way to create dictionaries, the addition of 'read-expr', bug fixes, and other changes.

March 10, 2008

newLISP 9.3.3 Released

Posted: 2008-03-10 06:26:47
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newLISP 9.3.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new options for 'bind' and 'search', fixed Solaris compilation, bug fixes, and other changes.

February 26, 2008

newLISP 9.3.2 Released

Posted: 2008-02-26 06:22:30
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newLISP 9.3.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new IPv6 compile flavours for Linux, Mac OS X and BSD; the reporting of roundtrip time from 'net-ping' in microseconds; and other changes.

February 25, 2008

GNU CLISP 2.44.1 Released

Posted: 2008-02-25 06:20:40
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GNU CLISP 2.44.1 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes a workaround for a bug in GCC 4.2.

February 18, 2008

European Lisp Workshop 2008 Call for Papers

Posted: 2008-02-18 07:42:32
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The 5th European Lisp Workshop has put out a call for papers. "This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education."

The submission deadline is May 4, 2008. The workshop will be held on July 7, 2008, in Paphos, Cyprus.