Some Lisp Links

A partial, incomplete set of links to things about Lisp from a couple hours of web wandering. It's a bit of a change to be linking to web pages from the last millennium.

Lisp / General

The function/value namespace thing:: Scheme vs Common Lisp: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html. Some of the arguments look a bit dated by modern standards.

Scheme

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/scheme/

Wikipedia - Scheme

http://www.r6rs.org/ - The latest Scheme definition. The nice thing, from a purely practical point of view, in this round of agreement is the definition of the library system.

Online books:

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (THE book)
• The Scheme Programming Language
• How to Design Programs

CMU Scheme repository: ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/ai/lang/scheme/0.html

Community: http://community.schemewiki.org/

Object-oriented programming and Scheme

• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scheme-faq/part1/section-6.html
• Meroon
• TinyCLOS

SLIB (A portable scheme library - "portable" seems to mean "it can be ported"). Included in SISC. http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB

Websites:

• http://www.schemers.org/
• http://srfi.schemers.org/
  SRFI - Scheme Requests for Implementation
• http://readscheme.org/
• http://library.readscheme.org/
• Original lambda papers: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html

Scheme / JVM Implementations

Access to access to ARQ for a SPARQL engine is important.

• http://sisc-scheme.org/  (GPL 2 or MPL 1.1)
• http://jscheme.sourceforge.net/ (Apache, zlib)
• http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ (GPL 2)

Scheme / Eclipse

One of things that Java does have going for it is a free, sophisticated IDEs.  Eclipse makes refactoring easy enough so as to encourage it as the project grows. For a project like ARQ, it's near essential to keep the naming and structure aligned to current terminology. Writing lisp in Emacs does not count as an IDE these days.

http://schemeway.sourceforge.net/ - not investigated yet.

http://schemeway.sourceforge.net/update-site/

Other Eclipse plug-ins? Other free, refactoring IDEs for Lisp?

Common Lisp / CLOS

Wikipedia - Common Lisp

Wikipedia - CLOS

Book: Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition

A Brief Guide to CLOS

http://jatha.sourceforge.net/ Common LISP library in Java (LGPL)

Common Lisp Wiki - http://www.cliki.net/

Lisp and .net

ARQ runs fine on .Net, so a CLR (.net and mono) lisp implementation is also interesting.

I didn't have time for much of a look around but did find Common Larceny: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/CommonLarceny/download.html

Not scheme nor Common Lisp: http://dotlisp.sourceforge.net/dotlisp.htm (BSD) but last release: July 9, 2003. Patches from the authors home page.

Other

Bigloo: can call Java. Compiles scheme to the JVM (?? and CLR), can link in Java classes but I couldn't find a clear statement as to how to use in a mixed environment.

Download link to Bigloo 2.9a for the JVM broken (2007-04-08)

http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/ (GPL/LGPL)