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This sounds like homework; if so you should identify it as such. I'm unclear what you want your function to return, but it sounds like you want to take a list of numbers, and return a list of factorials. So you need one function that takes a list of numbers as input. * If the list is not empty, retu...

I love when people answer "What can I use to write Lisp other than Emacs?" with "Emacs". Hey, I'm an average programmer from Australia. I've become interested in learning Lisp as I see it as a challenging and powerful language that would be useful to learn. The issue I'm having i...

Paul wrote:But Japanese isn't a tonal language...pitch accent is not the same thing.

Sorry, you're right, I wasn't familiar with what "tonal language" meant. Informal Japanese uses intonation to denote whether something is a question or a statement, which is why I thought of it here.

So you just have to remember to use a question mark to denote statements of fact. :? And have to disambiguate it when speaking, unless you consider spoken Lisp to be a tonal language. Sorry, that naming convention just drives me batty. IMO, marking predicates with a “p” makes a heck of a lot mo...

Clojure does "clean up" some things that are inconsistent or arcane in CL in my opinion. Clojure has only one implementation (so far) and so there are very few holes where things "vary by implementation", which makes sharing code a whole lot easier. I think some of the naming con...

Is there an authoritative or definitive style guide (mainly concerned about proper indentation) for CL? I've found this but it's Scheme-centric and doesn't seem complete, and has some odd suggestions. Up to now my style guide has been "whatever Emacs lisp-mode does" but this has its limita...

My question is how many people know about Clojure's implementation (sometimes referred to as a projects Bus Factor )? I only ever hear mention of Rich Hickey and I'm always nervous about a technology with only one person driving it in case they decide to walk away from it (much as seemed to happen ...

I recommend these videos for tips on developing the app (the "Reddit clone" videos are about Common Lisp with Hunchentoot, ignore the Clojure ones if you don't care about those). To deploy, it's fairly easy to set up Hunchentoot on a non-privileged port and then set Apache to forward traff...

Sorry, no I didn't mean to imply that you were one of the JVM-bigots. There's a difference between a rational objection and a baseless emotional objection. On my blog (forgive the self-promotion) I wrote my own list of annoyances in Clojure, most of which are nasty artifacts of being implemented on ...

I'm actually happy with the level of acceptance Clojure has received from the Common Lisp community overall. From reading c.l.l archives it seems that most new attempts at Lisp dialects are usually dismissed or flamed out of existence without missing a beat, but Clojure is getting at least some leve...