Top "Lisp" questions

Lisp is a family of general purpose programming languages, influenced by the lambda calculus, and with the ability to manipulate source code as a data structure.

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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About "If.." in Scheme (plt-scheme)

I had a pretty simple requirement in my Scheme program to execute more than one statement, in the true condition …

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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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How to properly link DCL to AutoLisp?

I'm trying to build a very basic AutoLisp interface. I'm a total beginner at this, so after failing to code …

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Can I use Common Lisp for SICP or is Scheme the only option?

Also, even if I can use Common Lisp, should I? Is Scheme better?

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Reload .emacs for all active buffers

A question already has been asked how to reload a .emacs file after changing it. The proposed solutions were to …

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How do I access the contents of the current region in Emacs Lisp?

I want to access the contents of the current region as a string within a function. For example: (concat "stringa" (…

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Haskell "Apply"?

Possible Duplicate: Why is such a function definition not allowed in haskell? I'm a newcomer to the world of Haskell, …

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Lisp Parentheses

Why do Lispers format their code like shown in sample 1 instead of as shown in sample 2? To me (and I …

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