[chicago-lisp] Hello!

[Brian Downing]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 11:18:41AM -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
> My biggest complaint with LISP and LISP learning materials in particular 
> was this: the materials show examples of how to write programs to 
> compute Fibonnacci numbers, or primes, or how to write a LISP interpreter.
> 
> However, they don't show you how to write a program to (for example) 
> sort a file and write it back to disk - or to act as a terminal program 
> - or how to interact with a SQL database - or how to read from the 
> passwrod file.  In short, anything that interacts with the outside world 
> is ignored by such luminaries as Winston and Horn's LISP book.

Welcome,

How about a web-based MP3 browser with Shoutcast server?

Practical Common Lisp:  http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Also available in dead-tree form very soon.

(Also, http://www.cliki.net/, a CL Wiki, and
http://www.common-lisp.net/, a sourceforge-alike for useful CL
projects.)

-bcd
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*** Brian Downing <bdowning at lavos dot net>