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> Btw, common lisp also has excellent support for OOP via the common lisp object system (CLOS). It's quite powerful, e.g. has multiple dispatch (if you want to see that in a modern language, try Julia…
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there's a trove in the PARC Archives we should point to and also mine for better understanding of the actual history as told in source files.
[From CHM PARC archives web](https://xeroxparcarchive…
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Clarity should have an `assert` construct that aborts the contract call when an invariant predicate is false.
Assertions are [common](https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Assertions) in programming languag…
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The chances are of this ever getting fixed are low. The specification and implementation difficulties are too great.
If a change were to be made, it would probably be in the direction of giving run o…
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Hello...
Which parts if vlim, if any, are CL-specific, as opposed to other dialect? I'd like to add vlim support to my own Lisp implementation. If I write a Swank server, does this suffice? Does vli…
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I see that is some support for some non-lisp dialects such as Python and Julia. Do you have lispy enabled for these languages and if so, how do you work around the limitation that these languages don'…
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We should integrate the [DLR](https://github.com/IronLanguages/dlr) support into our project.
Our attempt to make a statically typed LISP was doomed to failure from the very beginning.
Our LISP dial…
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Emacs starts successfully with the following in the *ESS* buffer:
```
[ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil
[ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil
Creating global Emacs toolbar(R): ess-r-ve…
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It would be useful to have a lisp printer to generate lisp code, for example, `(x - 2*x + 1)**2` would become `(* (+ x (* -2 x) 1) (+ x (* -2 x) 1))` (if lisp has a power operator it could optionally …
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What is the most similar dialect that is already available here?