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June 30, 2008

dfsch 0.2.1 Released

Posted: 2008-06-30 06:15:27
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dfsch 0.2.1 has been released. It is a programming language drawing mainly from R5RS Scheme and Common Lisp.

This release includes: support for additional numeric types, support for object properties, support for custom hash types, and other changes.

June 29, 2008

LispForum Announced

Posted: 2008-06-29 19:33:28
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LispForum has been announced. It is a website with discussion forums dedicated to various Lisp-related topics.

June 24, 2008

newLISP 9.3.17 Released

Posted: 2008-06-24 06:18:21
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newLISP 9.3.17 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: faster deletion of entire namespaces, and support for note-specific pitch-blend in the newLISP-GS MIDI API.

June 17, 2008

newLISP 9.3.16 Released

Posted: 2008-06-17 06:21:58
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newLISP 9.3.16 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes documentation updates and bug fixes.

June 09, 2008

Next Boston Lisp Meeting on June 25

Posted: 2008-06-09 06:16:29
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It has been announced that the next Boston Lisp meeting will be held on June 25, 2008.

newLISP 9.3.15 Released

Posted: 2008-06-09 06:11:51
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newLISP 9.3.15 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: Win32 installer improvements, newLISP-GS support for saving to MIDI files and using external sound-banks, bug fixes, and other changes.

Next Vancouver Lisp Users Group Meeting on June 19

Posted: 2008-06-09 06:09:14
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It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on June 19, 2008. Dean Giberson will be discussing the use of PLT Scheme for game development.

May 29, 2008

newLISP 9.3.14 Released

Posted: 2008-05-29 06:24:45
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newLISP 9.3.14 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: an improved algorithm for 'randomize', newLISP-GS improvements, and other changes.

May 22, 2008

Armstrong 0.0.3 Released

Posted: 2008-05-22 06:17:04
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Armstrong 0.0.3 has been released. It is a Lisp interpreter written in C.

May 21, 2008

Next (Boston Lispers) Meeting on May 27

Posted: 2008-05-21 06:15:23
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It has been announced that the next (Boston Lispers) meeting will be held on May 27, 2008. Ivan Krstic will be discussing programming languages and security, and Greg Cooper will be discussing FrTime.

May 19, 2008

CMUCL 19e Released

Posted: 2008-05-19 19:42:18
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CMUCL 19e has been released. CMUCL is a free, multiplatform ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for Intel Mac OS X, a new option to SAVE-LISP allowing for the creation of executable Lisp images that do not require a runtime loader, ANSI-compliance fixes, bug fixes, and other changes.

May 16, 2008

GNU CLISP 2.45 Released

Posted: 2008-05-16 06:17:14
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GNU CLISP 2.45 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: experimental just-in-time compilation of byte-compiled closures, new functions and macros, REPL commands tat can accept arguments, bug fixes, and other changes.

Next Vancouver Lisp User Group Meeting on May 22

Posted: 2008-05-16 06:06:21
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It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on May 22, 2008. Drew Crampsie will be discussing Lisp on Lines.

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.