Top "Common-lisp" questions

Common Lisp is a standardized version of the Lisp programming language intended for production-strength power.

Getting command line arguments in Common Lisp

How can I get the command line arguments in (specifically in GNU, if there are any differences) Common Lisp?

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Getting the first n elements of a list in Common Lisp?

How would I get the first n elements of a list? CL-USER> (equal (some-function 2 '(1 20 300)) '(1 20)) T I am …

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Where to learn how to practically use Common Lisp

I am a C++ programmer trying to learn Common Lisp. I have looked at some books like Land of Lisp …

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Lisp style: setq vs. setf

Peter Norvig mentions in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, on page 50, the trade off between specificity and consistency and when …

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Dynamic and Lexical variables in Common Lisp

I am reading the book 'Practical Common Lisp' by Peter Seibel. In Chapter 6, "Variables" sections "Lexical Variables and Closures" and "…

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How to determine the datatype of a variable

It is an easy to answer question (I guess), but I looked for a while not finding anything so I …

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How do I get a common-lisp GUI in Windows?

I'm using Emacs, with CLISP and Slime, and want to be able to draw pictures on the screen. I'm specifically …

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Common Lisp Parallel Programming

I want to implement my particle filtering algorithm in parallel in Common Lisp. Particle Filtering and sampling can be parallelized …

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Variable references in lisp

Another newbie (Common) LISP question: Basically in most programming languages there's a mean for functions to receive references to variables …

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How to read user input in Lisp

I'm very new to Lisp and am trying to write a program that simply asks a user to enter 3 numbers …

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