Re: How is Lisp compiled ahead of time?

2009-10-21 Thread Jeff Sapp
I'm not aware of a good tutorial online, but Peter Norvig does excellent treatment in his book "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming". Chapter 23 is devoted to writing a simple compiler. The source for his compiler is online at: http://norvig.com/paip/compile1.lisp http://norvig.com/p

Re: function rebinding and logging

2009-10-21 Thread Jeff Sapp
at logging inside retry blocks > could reduce your logs to meaningless pudding pretty quickly ). > On the other hand, I could just be being paranoid. > > R. > > 2009/10/20 Jeff Sapp >> >> Hey, I'm working on a small to medium sized, hopefully commercial >> pro

function rebinding and logging

2009-10-20 Thread Jeff Sapp
Hey, I'm working on a small to medium sized, hopefully commercial product in clojure. I'll be providing an API to clients, and I'm also going to have to make some performance guarantees about a few of my functions. Because of that (as well as a few other reasons), I'm very interested interested in

Re: Clojure and SOAP

2009-09-10 Thread Jeff Sapp
I've been working on a project (both client and server) for the last few weeks using Clojure and SOAP. I looked around for anything SOAP related and didn't find much. I ended up just using the Apache Axis library. Their WSDL2Java saved me quite a bit of time. Right now I have more java code than