Promoting my blog.

[Kazimir Majorinc]

Hello



I'm new user of Newlisp, and I'll use it for next few months and hopefully longer. I wish to promote my blog at



http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com">http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com



Thanks to author and contributors who made it possible.

[Lutz]

Welcome to newLISP and the group Kazimir. Just read your first blog entry about newLISP. Thanks for setting the record straight about macros in newLISP and for pointing out the first-class nature of functions and macro-functions in newLISP and the nature of 'eval'. There are two functions in newLISP, which relate to the macro discussion:



the 'letex' function:

http://newlisp.org/download/development/newlisp_manual.html#letex">http://newlisp.org/download/development ... html#letex">http://newlisp.org/download/development/newlisp_manual.html#letex



the 'expand' function:

http://newlisp.org/download/development/newlisp_manual.html#expand">http://newlisp.org/download/development ... tml#expand">http://newlisp.org/download/development/newlisp_manual.html#expand



the links are to a newer cleaned up version of the manual, but these two functions work identical in the official release 9.3.0

[cormullion]

Hi Kazimir! Nice blog, nice first post, and I look forward to reading your 101st post... (Actually, the 10th post is the hardest one... :) Your enthusiasm for newLISP and your knowledge of Common Lisp and Scheme should make for some interesting posts.



I'll add your name to the list of distinguished newLISP bloggers on mine!

[Kazimir Majorinc]

One thing I perhaps should say as a new user in a relatively small community is that I do not expect any backward compatibility in the future, i.e. if author (or community) see an opportunity to improve the language, libraries breaking that compatibility, excellent, I'll adapt. Maybe it is already your policy, but I had to support the case.

[Kazimir Majorinc]

I wrote simple (actually extremely) simple benchmark that tested speed of eval in Newlisp and few Scheme and Lisp implementations. It turns that Newlisp eval ... well, look for yourself.

[Kazimir Majorinc]

Just published article "Macrocall" that develops strangely simple, but interesting macro system.

[Kazimir Majorinc]

I just posted new article on my blog: "Don't Fear Dynamic Scope." (link - see signature.)

[Kazimir Majorinc]

I just posted new article on my blog: "Don't Fear Dynamic Scope (2.)"

[cormullion]

Another impressive post! I like the way you mathematicians pursue simplicity and complexity at the same time!

"Protect" is short, but very complicated function. It is function of the third order, i.e. it returns macros that generate functions.

:)

[newdep]

I must agree here... your blog is nice to read.. Though Am I the only one who

has to read it more then once ;-) It all looks so simple but there is some power in those lisp lines ;-) very nice...!  (Nasdrovja!)

[Excalibor]

Very interesting blog! I'm learning quite a bit, thanks a bunch and keep it up!



laters

[Kazimir Majorinc]

Another post, not that interesting for experienced Newlispers. Someone said on comp.lang.lisp that it would be nice that Newlisp can check whether someone supplied extra arguments to function. My last post "Challenged by CL" was strangely popular (200+ visits in one day, several times more than my record) and few people voted for it ( http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/">http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/ )

[cormullion]

My last post "Challenged by CL" was strangely popular (200+ visits in one day, several times more than my record)

there are a lot of CL-ers looking for an argument, it seems. I don't know why, but you're doing well, Kazimir!

[DrDave]

there are a lot of CL-ers looking for an argument, it seems.

@cormullion, was that "looking for an argument" in reference to "check whether someone supplied extra arguments to function", or meant being argumentative?

[cormullion]

both :) But I expect Kazimir's visitors came tooled up with their choice of weapon...