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Jasper wrote:Hi. Firstly, many of us here prefer full sentences and typo-checked writing. Secondly, some might feel that you're asking us do do your homework.

Have you heard of Muphry's Law

danb wrote:and if they're both null, then return the symbol ITS-TOUGH."

Thinko. This should be "and if neither of them is null, then return the symbol ITS-TOUGH." :)

eg. one line read from the file is "Smith John H M 1018702738 1230432689 40000 Technician" in the order of last name, first name, middle init, sex, birthday, starting date, salary, title" By the way, one thing you might want to watch out for is, what happens when the last name is &qu...

One approximation of this would be to run a JVM and then use Java, Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure etc. on top of it :)

I don't use Emacs/SLIME, but perhaps some of these links will help you decide:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slime+si ... oop%2Fblog

Does it not simply mean that the file was closed successfully? (let form evaluates to its last subform, which is (close in), so that returns T (I presume is the emacs lisp equivalent of #t in Common Lisp, i.e. true)... right?) You're thinking of Scheme. T is true in Common Lisp (and I assume it's t...

aloyslisp wrote:As I just begin a nTh CL version in Java, I just crash on some problems.

See also http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

dlweinreb wrote:Because of timing and technical difficulties, the submission deadline
for the 2009 International Lisp Conference has been extended from
December 9, 2009, to December 16, 2009.

I assume you mean December 16, 2008 :)

Keep in mind, that one will have to iterate over the list twice, once to get its length, and once to get the random element (apologies if you know this already). It's probably fine for your purposes, but if it seems slower than it should be, consider either not using a list or storing the list leng...

Catching up on the Clojure group, I saw this message: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/d8a73d4c124bc8f6/a7ddc7b58782ca0b?lnk=gst#a7ddc7b58782ca0b I found this part interesting: Proxy generation was the last runtime code-gen/classloader requirement. So the path is clear for...