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The rather funky Mosquito lisp VM and language has been reborn in a slightly different guise: Wasp Lisp . From the development blog : Wasp Lisp is a member of the Lisp-1 family, borrowing principles from R5RS Scheme, Python and Erlang. Derived from MOSREF and MOSVM , Wasp Lisp will provide many of M...

Haven't tried playing with javascript yet. Parenscript is the way and the light. It can't hide every ugliness of javascript (you have to include return statements more often than I'd like) but you get to create macros to hide away a good chunk of the more ridiculous boilerplate. For example (steali...

Very cool. Lisp needs some more Prolog-like libraries. Several commercial Lisps have really good offerings for this, but the open choices seem to be mostly associated with books (PAIP, On Lisp) and so require a lot of dancing to disentangle from everything else that comes with the book — to say ...

Libraries! I just finished modifying a slightly aged bit of code in the CMU AI repository to make Gambol (basic prolog-like functionality). My current big project is to make my SVG library lively enough to privide basic GUI behaviors. That means I have to learn Javascript and the whole DOM API first...

Chicken! It has a pretty active development community and an enviable collection of libraries.

It's not clear they lack for a place for user community, though.

The web site where cl-yacc lives has been missing for at least two days.