In this article EB is saying that this '{"oranges": 2, "apples": 6, "pears": 5}' is an unordered set in JSON, while this s-expression '((ORANGES 2) (APPLES 6) (PEARS 5)) is a nested list, but apparently not an unordered set. He…
Though I have been using Common Lisp on Linux for a while, my experience with SBCL on Mac is still close to nothing. I just installed SBCL on Mac (Sonoma 14.2.1) using homebrew. I now have : SBCL 2.4.1 I…
Right now, my main website is a CL executable behind an nginx proxy. When I make changes, I have to create a new executable. Stop, the old one and restart the new one. As my traffic grows, this is concerning.…
I'm fairly new to common lisp and have been doing Exercism exercises to get into it. I'm using debian on wsl2 on windows 10. I have sbcl 2.1.1 with quicklisp Here is the file I'm trying to load (defpackage :lillys-lasagna-leftovers…
On MacOS: When I try to load log4cl I get a compile error: CL-USER> (ql:quickload "log4cl") To load "log4cl": Load 1 ASDF system: log4cl ; Loading "log4cl" . ; ; caught ERROR: ; READ error during COMPILE-FILE: ; ; Lock…
I have a database that returns data as a tree like this: '((7 "vince" "[email protected]" "space" "no value" 1) (8 "vince" "[email protected]" "place" "no value" 1) (9 "Smith" "[email protected]" "now" "no value" 1)) The second column is first name and…
I am having problems installing c2ffi (https://github.com/rpav/c2ffi) on both FreeBSD 12 and Debian 10. I need c2ffi in order to use some Common Lisp bindings that rely on c2ffi. On FreeBSD 12, I have both Clang 6.0 (default) and 10.0…
Overview I'm trying to run a simplified version of this code, that needs the cxml and klacks library for XML parsing. (The concrete code is Chapter 47 of the book "The Art of Postgresql".) Since I know very little about…
I'm calling a CL script from various places in the system. How do I get the file path of the script that is currently executed? For example, the script source file is located in the /home/user/project/source/ directory. The script is…
I am writing a crude artificial intelligence program. I am happy with my programs ability to file away new word in ways that will allow logic to be done on them. Before I start expanding the logic abilities of the…