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Multi-processing in newLISP can be a chore. All processes must be directly known to any others that will be accessing shared memory, which must be synchronized using semaphores. A new development release of newLISP (9.3.7) will change all that by adding Cilk-style primitives. Submit article

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Among the various methods of extending Python about which I have written, Python 2.5′s ctypes module is possibly the easiest. Submit article

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Tim Johnson has updated his emacs newLISP-mode. I’ve added a few customizations and posted them in projects. Changelog for 0.25 Added functions for sexp-cursor movement: newlisp-indent-and-move-next, newlisp-indent-and-move-back, newlisp-prev-opening-parens, newlisp-next-opening-parens Improved newlisp-next-function, newlisp-previous-function I made a few changes to his mode to make it suit me more: Changed the symbol color from magenta to plum. I [...]

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One of the handier features of modern functional languages like Erlang and OCaml is the use of unification to match arity against function definitions. The ability to define a function in terms of the type and number of arguments passed is both expressive and useful. Submit article

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The template module was inspired largely by the Django template system. I firmly believe that separating complex logic from the template itself leads to both cleaner code and, much more importantly, a simpler system for non-programmers. A content producer should not be required to know lisp to write a simple template. Submit article

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