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It's time to learn Scheme

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation's lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme is a streamlined dialect of Lisp. Many universities use Scheme as the language to introduce students to the Computer Science curriculum, and some of their teaching methods are based on the assumption that Scheme is the one language they can count on their students knowing. Even so, many active programmers and system administrators are unfamiliar with Scheme. This article will get you on your way to adding this tool to your developer or sysadmin toolkit.


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common-lisp-controller(3)				     Library Functions Manual					 common-lisp-controller(3)

NAME
common-lisp-controller - Common Lisp system management tool DESCRIPTION
The common-lisp-controller system will manage the installed Common Lisp implementations and libraries on the system. The main function is to enable every user to load any available library and to store the compiled files in a user and implementation specific cache directory. On upgrades of either implementations or libraries these directories will be cleared so that no old fasl files will remain. There are also options to add libraries by default to new images, see /usr/share/doc/common-lisp-controller/README.Debian , or to add user specific libraries to the management system, see clc-register-user-package. EXAMPLES
To load a clc library :foo on a clc enabled implementation simply do (clc:clc-require :foo) FILES
/var/cache/common-lisp/ <uid> / <implementation-name> / <library> the cache directory for a library fir a given user with associated uid and a certain implementation. /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/ the location of the libraries. BUGS
Bug reports should be sent to the Debian BTS, preferably with reportbug. AUTHOR
Peter Van Eynde (pvaneynd@debian.org) 2001-2006 Kevin M. Rosenberg (kmr@debian.org) 2001-2004 Rene van Bevern 2005-2006 Desmond O. Chang (dochang@gmail.com) 2010 SEE ALSO
clc-register-user-package(1), clc-unregister-user-package(1) register-common-lisp-implementation(8) register-common-lisp-source(8) unregis- ter-common-lisp-implementation|source(8) unregister-common-lisp-source(8) 7th Edition March, 15, 2006 common-lisp-controller(3)