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The 'a' stands for anamorphic. Paul Graham's 'On Lisp' has it (and anamorphic if, cond, etc), but I think the technique is older than that still. PG also has the definition of 'with-gensyms'. I won't go into details since PG explains it in that book, which is freely available as a downloadable pdf ...

See also REDUCE.

I looked at other people's code and I can't understand why their code is so long just to parse a csv file. The CSV format is described by RFC4180 . It is not quite that trivial in general case. Also, you have to spend some code on parsing the values themselves. Lisp reader, which is what READ-FROM-...

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Anybody know of or have a good library of financial functions? I'm looking for things like NPV, FV, loan payments, etc? I Googled but didn't get much joy.

Very cool. I have been waiting for somebody to do this, thinking myself that ECL would be a great starting point.

Yes, CLiki has had this problem for quite a while. Unfortunately, it suffers from the curse of so much software: people wanted to reimplement the wheel in their favorite language for no good reason. There are far better wiki packages with more features (such as anti-spam/vandalism); they just don't ...

Paul Graham never really liked Common Lisp as such, which means that style used in his books is rather idiosyncratic . And it is telling that his language is rather Scheme like and based of Scheme. I agree that functional style is elegant and usually useful, but there are certain problem domains wh...

Since I've posted I've discovered Racket which has "{" and "[" all equivalent to "(". Which is nice because I can use either at the same time so it allows me to organize my code more. Personally, this is a nightmare for me. When editing, you're bound to get something u...

Scheme doesn't have a standard threading mechanism. I think they're looking at creating one for a follow-on standard (R7RS?).