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Hi there, as I read your post, I'd recommend you to learn and (to love :D) two languages: Common Lisp and Haskell. In the case of the former one you should make yourself familiar with metaprogramming (macros & reader macros) and in the latter case that's where you'll find beautiful connection wi...

Trivial UTF-8 was written before Babel existed, but for new projects you might be better off going with Babel. The one plus that Trivial UTF-8 has is that it doesn't depend on any other libraries. Babel is a charset encoding/decoding library, not unlike GNU libiconv, but completely written in Commo...

Many lisp implementations support unicode characters in strings so you should look around libraries of this kind: trivial-utf-8, babel.

This look like what are you looking for. I'd say it's quite comprehensive.

As I said the NIL is an evaluated value of the expression you've entered into REPL (the interactive mode you are woking with). That's how the REPL works: prompts you with a prompt line. you enter an expression. prints whatever you write into the output stream (through print/write functions). prints ...

That nil is the value of the loop expression. And better way to print list this was is via format function.

Like changing the text color and mini text based games. I once wrote this code when I was introducing myself to multithreading in Common Lisp. It prints colored text into the console, it uses ANSI escape sequences (on Windows I recommend start using ansicon ; don't miss the release page ), the othe...

Excuse me, I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone knows where it has moved to? I had to move it to another free webhosting. I was using the Apache mod_rewrite module for subdomains, unfortunately they've broken this functionality (and probably do nothing with it) so I've moved it to the main domain....

finish-output is a blocking call and force-output is a non-blocking call.

There are functions for a buffer manipulation, force-output is probably what are you looking for.