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Paul BryanThis toot was composed in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emacs</a> using <a href="https://codeberg.org/emocoder/mastodon.el" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/emocoder/mastodon.el</a> with the following <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>``` (require 'mastodon-toot) (let* ((code (buffer-string)) (toot (string-join `("This toot was composed in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emacs</a> using <a href="https://codeberg.org/emocoder/mastodon.el" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/emocoder/mastodon.el</a> with the following <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>\n" "```" ,(format "%s\n" code) "```\n") "\n"))) (mastodon-toot--compose-buffer nil nil nil toot)) ```

screwlisp<a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#article</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/ontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ontology</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/formal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#formal</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/concrete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#concrete</a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-insect-bird-ontology/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-insect-bird-ontology/</a>Plant Insect Bird practical formal ontology with Leonardo calculusI revisit my <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lispgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lispgames</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gamejam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamejam</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a>. In this article I create a formal ontology to be a vehicle for my concrete game redux of the jam (which had been lacklustre if technically interesting. Let's be technically interesting and have more lustre this time round.Thoughts, commentary, ontological guidance gentle and stern if you will please.

Mason Loring BlissFrom Joe Marshall's blog on Planet Lisp:'Go programs make a lot more sense if you pronounce `if err != nil` as "inshallah".'<a href="http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-observation.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-observation.html</a><a href="https://partychickens.net/tags/go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#go</a> <a href="https://partychickens.net/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://partychickens.net/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Karsten Johansson<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@robpike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@robpike</a> Cool to look at, but it's a well-known first-order error term of Stirling’s formula revealing itself in base-10 notation.My code here differs slightly from what you did to get your results, but look at the (stubborn( similarities.<pre><code>(defparameter *bernoulli-coeffs* '(-1/12 1/360 -1/1260 1/1680 -1/1188)) ; not working this out from scratch lol (defun log-error (n &optional (terms 3)) (let ((sum 0d0) (nk n)) (dotimes (j terms) (setf sum (+ sum (/ (float (nth j *bernoulli-coeffs*) 1d0) nk))) (setf nk (* nk n n))) ; N, N³, N⁵, … sum)) (defun stirling-ratio (k &optional (places 25) (terms 3)) (let* ((n (expt 10d0 k)) (ratio (exp (log-error n terms)))) (format nil "~,vF" places ratio))) (defun show-pattern (&optional (max-k 6) (places 25) (terms 3)) (loop for k from 1 to max-k do (format t "k = ~d ⇒ ~a~%" k (stirling-ratio k places terms)))) </code></pre>Try this with (show-pattern 15 17). This is from clisp, but it should work on any common lisp.There are people much smarter than I that can probably do this more efficiently. but this should show you why you see what you see.Google "borrow trail" for more info about what it is.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/commonlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commonlisp</a>

Paolo AmorosoA great explanation by <a href="https://framapiaf.org/@vindarel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vindarel</a> of the differences between HANDLER-BIND and HANDLER-CASE in Common Lisp, and what it means that the former doesn't unwind the stack.<a href="https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-error-handling-how-handler-bind-does-not-unwind-the-stack" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-error-handling-how-handler-bind-does-not-unwind-the-stack</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonLisp</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>

The Medley Interlisp ProjectThe TEdit WYSIWYG editor of Medley Interlisp has a split window mode that shows different parts of a document. To split at the cursor or unsplit, middle-click on the title bar and select Split Window or Unsplit Window.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/interlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interlisp</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>

lispwitch 2.0we're pleased to announce <a href="https://guixotic.coop" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://guixotic.coop</a>, a new free software cooperative focused on gnu guix and guile cofounded by <a href="https://mastodon.online/@podiki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@podiki</a>, maxim cournoyer and me. we offer services including training, commercial support, development, system administration (CI/CD, HPC), packaging -- in short, everything guix and guile.our goal is to strengthen & expand the community, bringing in new people and organizations (our clients), supporting development work, and growing the network of organizations supporting these technologies.could you or an organization you know of benefit from our services? email contact@guixotic.coop or contact us here!full announcement: <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html</a><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnu</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guix</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/guile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guile</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/cooperatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooperatives</a>

TuxAcademyToday's Poll...Which were the earliest programming languages used in the field of AI?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProgrammingHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProgrammingHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Java</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechTrivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechTrivia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TuxAcademy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TuxAcademy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Go</a>

screwlisp<a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lispyGopherClimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archive</a> discussing <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/alife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alife</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gof_ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gof_ai</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ksaj</a> and <a href="https://ciberlandia.pt/@shizamura" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@shizamura</a> <a href="https://communitymedia.video/w/sg6Sa93LRkXfyuLJEaBMXf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://communitymedia.video/w/sg6Sa93LRkXfyuLJEaBMXf</a>Themed around Braitenberg's <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/Vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vehicles</a> Thought experiment in <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/syntheticPsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#syntheticPsychology</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/caisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#caisor</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/unix_surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix_surrealism</a> by <a href="https://merveilles.town/@prahou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@prahou</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> by <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kentpitman</a>

FeohVery hard to see people being Wrong on the Internet.But on the other hand, I DO NOT want to be THAT GUY pointing out inaccuracies in Youtube comments.BUT when a video claims that ever <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> interpreter contains a copy of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISP</a> ?Accuracy is important y'all :)

vascorsdCoalton: Toward safe, flexible, and efficient software in Common Lisp | Lobsters<a href="https://lobste.rs/s/wwifcy/coalton_toward_safe_flexible_efficient" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/wwifcy/coalton_toward_safe_flexible_efficient</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a>

screwlisp<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aral</a> ( <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/hunchentoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hunchentoot</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/drakma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drakma</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> ;p)

screwlisp<a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookReview</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/automata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#automata</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/</a>I connect this to <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ksaj</a> about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.

Daniel DüsentriebThe lovely thing about Clojure (or any LISP for that matter) is that you start with step 1: learning its data structures,then you proceed to step 2: learning the syntax, which you've already done in step 1<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Clojure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clojure</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISP</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/functionalProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#functionalProgramming</a>

Nils M HolmA few weeks ago I wondered what it takes to turn a small LISP-1 into a LISP-2. Turns out it takes just a few hours to get most things right, then some days to iron out a few subtleties, and then a couple of weeks to polish it into a piece of art. MICRO COMMON LISP is a tiny, purely symbolic, microscopic subset of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommonLISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommonLISP</a>. It runs in less than 64K bytes of memory, even on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOS</a> (tiny model) or CP/M. Here it is: <a href="http://t3x.org/mcl/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://t3x.org/mcl/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CPM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISP</a>

Simon BrookeI'm working on a project which includes files written in both C and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisp</a>; I'd like to have a common documentation generator for the whole project, to generate integrated documentation.Has anyone made <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Doxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Doxygen</a> work with Lisp? Are there any recommendations for a documentation generator which can work for both (and also Markdown, which is what my specification docs are written in?

Fritjof :emacs: :ardour:After listening to the <a href="https://social.riversouldiers.dk/tags/FOSSandCrafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSSandCrafts</a> episode on LISP - I'm feeling an itch to dive into learning lisp.I probably had it coming, as an emacs-fan...Are there any mentoring programs out there that can be recommended for a total newbie?<a href="https://social.riversouldiers.dk/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://social.riversouldiers.dk/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emacs</a> <a href="https://social.riversouldiers.dk/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a>

screwlisp<a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareEngineering</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/computerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerHistory</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/bibliography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bibliography</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/Sandewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sandewall</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/softwareIndividuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareIndividuals</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/LISP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LISP</a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/CAISOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CAISOR</a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/Sandewall-caisor-bibliography/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/Sandewall-caisor-bibliography/</a>My promised bibliography of open-access CAISOR <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> articles from the 1960s-2010s. Each citation links into <a href="https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75</a> 's collected oddities. Because I focused on preserving rarities such as draft versions of papers from the 60s and a single sentence article with JOHN overwrote onto it, my collection should be regarded as a primary archive.

Simon Brooke<a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@screwlisp</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ksaj</a> the conceptual design of the post-scarcity hardware (PoSH) machine is a hypercube of (theoretically) up to 4,294,967,296 compute nodes each with 2 cores and 8 Gb of on-board memory, each running an (identical) <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisp</a> runtime. Each node can address any memory location belonging to any node, but memory has to be copied stepwise across the hypercube, so near nodes are cheaper to access.This is, of course, only a thought experiment... for now...<a href="https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2017-09-19-implementing-postscarcity-hardware/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2017-09-19-implementing-postscarcity-hardware/</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@vashti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@vashti</a> and this is why we shouldn't store numbers in fixed width fields, or compute using 32 or 64 or 128 bit or any other fixed size integers.Bignum arithmetic has been a solved problem in computing since Maclisp in the 1960s.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lisp</a>

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