In an earlier article, I showed how to invoke C# methods from Sicstus Prolog. Today, I would like to detail the steps for doing the same from LispWorks Lisp. LispWorks Enterprise Edition comes budled with support for COM and Automation. This is what we will be using. What this means is that we have to […]
I have been looking around for a compact embedded NoSQL database library for .NET, to use as the back-end of my “iLexicon” system. “iLexicon” is written in Lisp and Prolog (I have written a few articles on it before). At present, the entire dictionary component (containing over 300,000 word entries) is resident in memory, and the […]
L-system is a powerful string rewriting system. Opusmodus supports an implementation of this system (inspired by and based on this implementation). It is possible to use the L-system to generate anything that can be described in terms of an alphabet and a set of rewriting rules. Let us start with a simple example: As you can see, there are […]
![C++20 [[nodiscard]] Attribute](http://i1.wp.com/www.rangakrish.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Example1-src.jpg?resize=675%2C240&ssl=1 "C++20 [[nodiscard]] Attribute")
[[nodiscard]] attribute “encourages” the compiler to issue a warning when the return value from a function is ignored. It was introduced in C++ 17 and enhanced in C++ 20 to include a string literal that can be used as an explanation of the warning. Let us look at different cases one by one. Case-1: An enumeration […]
Let this New Year 2021 bring health and happiness to us all! In the last article, I talked briefly about JFugue and showed how to access it from LispWorks Lisp on a PC running Windows 10. In that example, the music was rendered by the built-in synthesizer. Although this is fine, it is sometimes desirable to […]
JFugue is an open-source Java library that can be used for algorithmic music composition. Developed by David Koelle, currently it is in its fifth major version. You can get the library from here. I had downloaded the library some time ago, but could not spend much time since my primary focus has been on Opusmodus. This […]
The recently concluded Black Friday sale by UVI was an irresistible temptation for me and I ended up investing in Falcon 2 and a few other instruments. Although I have the latest versions of Ableton Live, Propellerheads Reason, Renoise, and Reaper, I felt Falcon 2 would be a good addition to my existing collection, mainly because […]
I have recently started implementing a library for algorithmic music composition. It provides higher-level algorithms and abstractions for composing multi-track music, and works with Opusmodus software. Opusmodus is a great platform for music composition and has excellent support for MIDI-based music. My library is an attempt to enrich the Opusmodus platform with features that facilitate easier […]
Title: The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms Author: Michał “phoe” Herda Publisher: Apress Year: 2020 Unlike with other languages, it is rare to find new books being published on Lisp. The last book on Lisp, which I purchased was “Common Lisp Recipes” by Edmund Weitz in March 2016. After a […]
In mathematics, the simplest example of Random Walk is a random process along a one-dimensional plane of integers, starting at 0 and moving in the positive or negative direction in steps of +1 or -1, with equal probability. The Random Walk theory has been applied in many domains including Physics and even the Stock Market. Here is a […]
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