As an exercise in my spare time, I decided to translate my Ruby prime number generator to Common Lisp.  What — isn’t that the sort of thing you do in your spare time?Common Lisp does not have call/cc (that’s a Scheme thing), although...
Topics: clisp, gcf, lcd, lisp, lispprime

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While watching the MLB playoffs yesterday, I could overhear my wife helping our son with his homework – fractions.  She explained “making the bottom number the same” in terms that he could understand, but I couldn’t help ruminating on the...
Topics: arrays, continuations, halfulton, Ruby

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Sam Mela liked my WiPeD debugger for WordPress, but he wanted an easy way to include call traceback information.  So he added it, and he kindly shared his addition with me.I’ve adapted what he did to my own tastes and included it in the download...
Topics: CSS, debugger, PHP, phpwpd, phpwpd13, plugin, sammela, Web, WordPress

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As I threatened in my last post, I’ve combined a lot of my Synergy/DE version 9 work into a single library, which I have named “synthesis”.  Why synthesis?It’s a synthesis of most of my explorations of what I can do with Synergy/DE...
Topics: fp, oop, synbool, synelapsed, SynergyDE, syngottk, synhash, synlet, synls, synmi, synprogn, synregex, synsingleton, synswap, synthesis, synvar

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Yes, Richard, I did it – I created another problem for everyone.  I’ve implemented a regex parser for Synergy/DE.  And because it’s written in Synergy/DE (as opposed to say, a C DLL), it’s portable between any number of Unices, Linux,...
Topics: DFA, NFA, regex, regexen, SynergyDE, Wildly popular

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