June 27, 2004 1:01 PM (#)

SBCL manual now auto-built

See The SBCL pages (you might also notice the link in the top navigation bar). The Benchmark runner needs to automatically build every SBCL revision, anyway. It could build the manual, as well. And so it does.

June 25, 2004 12:59 PM (#)

CL tutorial google juicification

A google search for Lisp tutorials often doesn’t yield a useful result for a newbie: Lots of Tutorials from the late 90s and 80s. Most call it “LISP” (in capitals), and refer to “the interpreter”. This does not reflect reality any more. Here are some more useful introductions to Common Lisp:

Hope this helps direct the google juice into more modern channels.

June 2, 2004 12:59 PM (#)

finally, I understand

…what it means when people say that a thing is “rock solid” (especially when they speak of security). It means that they never tried to break it.