Tag: LISP
In the last article, I showed how to make calls to Lisp functions from Elixir. We followed this pattern: 1) Initialize the Lisp environment by calling Lisp.init 2) Call Lisp functions as needed 3) Free the Lisp environment by calling Lisp.quit Using the powerful macro programming capabilities of Elixir, we can write a simple macro […]
In the last article I showed how we can simulate the idea of Lisp’s “closure” in Elixir. Today, I would like to demonstrate how we can call Lisp functions from Elixir using the NIF interface. What is the need to integrate Elixir with another language? I can think of two reasons: 1) We have a library […]
I started learning Elixir a week ago. Although this has been at the top of my To-do list for quite a while, I couldn’t take it up due to other commitments. I love Elixir. It is a great functional programming language. Having programmed in Lisp for a long time, I immediately noticed the similarity between Lisp […]
In the previous post, we saw how to invoke a Go function from Lisp. In today’s post, I would like to explain how to go in the other direction, namely, how to call Lisp functins from Go. There are two ways to do this. The first approach is to load the Lisp DLL (like any […]
For the past few weeks I was travelling in the USA and had the pleasure of meeting several friends, some of whom are senior developers and architects. It was interesting to learn that many of them were either using Go language in their daily work, or were passionately endorsing the language! Due to lack of […]
My work in the area of NLP requires me to work with several frameworks across multiple languages such as Java, Python and Lisp. Sometime ago I got a chance to experiment with CLPython, an open-source implementation of Python in Common Lisp. Although CLPython is not under active development now, I found it quite usable. In fact […]
In today’s post, let us see how we can enhance the grammar representation discussed so far to include both Number constraint and Parse Tree. Fortunately, this turns out to be quite straightforward. Just as we do in Prolog, we need to include additional parameters, as needed, to each grammar rule. In the earlier two posts, […]
Recently I was looking for a Common Lisp library for accessing Azure services. Azure has official SDKs in many languages, but Lisp is not one of them. Quite understandable and I have no complaints. Because the services are all exposed via REST interfaces, it should not be difficult to implement a Lisp wrapper to use […]
One of the nice language enhancements to C# in the latest release (7.0) is the ability to return multiple values from a function. Although one could use Tuples for this purpose, it is not an elegant or efficient approach. For more details, see this article. By the way, returning multiple values from a function is […]
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