CLiki : FirstStepsWithAsdfAndAsdfInstall - since asdf and asdf-install are anything but intuitive, here's a link to a tutorial
lisp - 4.4.2007 - 31.1.2010
HintsForAsdfAndOpenmcl – Clozure CL - and this is how you generally get asdf-install running on Clozure CL.
Clozure CL - not linked for the first time, but the current 1.4 distribution has become really nice by now, there are the first IDE tools (Apropos, Listener, Inspector, Editor) in a usable form and the Cocoa framework and the ObjC bridge are also quite mature. Furthermore, it is one of the fastest starting Lisps for the Mac. Offers nice possibilities to play around with OS X APIs.
ABCL-web - a framework to program Java servlets with Common Lisp, can also generate .war files directly. I probably won't be able to convince anyone at the company to use Common Lisp for web development (the chances for Scala are at least significantly higher in some areas), but maybe it can be used for some hacks.
Armed Bear - just so I don't lose it again, abcl is the Java-Common-Lisp, but under the name Armed Bear there is also a Lisp called XCL, a new native code compiler implementation for X86 and X86-64 systems. I could take a look at it sometime (although there are already many not entirely compatible Lisps and with CCL and sbcl two quite good implementations).
Algorithmic Botany - in Common Lisp. There you will also find a link to the book with the algorithms. Rendering is done with classic renderers, the Common Lisp code only generates the model description as input.
Short Chat Server in Clojure - interesting small example of Clojure code. Shows well the use of asynchronous processes and network access. And with 75 lines nicely clear.
MCLIDE - Lisp IDE for Macintosh - an interesting project that reimplements the tools from Macintosh Common Lisp as standalone tools and then connects them to various Lisp implementations via Slime/Swank. Definitely more pleasant for Mac users than using Emacs, for example.
Why Common Lisp will never really become mainstream - the linked source is only used to use a binary-ascii decoding/encoding library in various Common Lisps via an automatically decoding and encoding stream. What's inside? Mountains of #+ markers with various Common Lisp implementations. That's not portability, that's just a mess.
avodonosov's abcl-idea - as I'm currently playing around with IntelliJ (and the plugins for Scala and Clojure for it), there's also a plugin for integrating Common Lisp into Idea. Even with the possibility of writing extensions for Idea in Common Lisp (and having your own REPL for it). I should definitely try it out.
Parsing JSON in Arc - nothing world-shattering new, just parser combinators, but you don't see Arc code very often, the Lisp dialect by Paul Graham.
Exploring the Mandelbrot set with your GPU - quite a cool Clojure library that enables GPU usage with Clojure.
Snow project - a GUI library for abcl (armed bear common lisp) based on Swing.
xmlisp - and yet another MCL descendant (or perhaps rather a CCL descendant). So a Common Lisp on Mac, this one with specific extensions for 2D and 3D graphics and game programming. Reminds a bit of Processing at first glance.
MCL - the old Digitool MCL (originally Apple's Macintosh Common Lisp and before that Coral Common Lisp I think) lives on not only in Clozure Common Lisp, but also as a direct descendant of the formerly commercial package. At least interesting for Lisp nostalgics. Unfortunately only runnable with Rosetta, not direct Intel code. But maybe that will come yet?
Erik Naggum, 1965-2009 RIP - it's strange to read an obituary for a Usenet poster and be touched by it - even if you never met the person yourself, only occasionally exchanged emails or news postings with them, and often shook your head at a thread in which he was involved. He was always uncomfortable. Nevertheless (or perhaps precisely because of that), he often and strongly shaped comp.lang.lisp. And sometimes he provoked thought.
Geeking out with Lisp Flavoured Erlang - I really need to finally deal with Lisp Flavoured Erlang.
Continue: Web Applications in PLT Scheme - and since I can't refer to Scheme without referring to the best Scheme environment of all time, here's a link to a tutorial on programming web applications with PLT Scheme.
JazzScheme - interesting "new" (not really, already 12 years old, but soon to be open source) Scheme environment. Unfortunately only X11 under OSX so far. But the GUI screenshots look very interesting.
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp - I think I've already mentioned this, but good things are worth repeating. And they seem to have been busy - they're already very close to a Python 2.5 implementation. I really should play with this a bit, as it combines two of my favorite languages and could help solve one of the central CL problems: the rather meager selection of good (meaning currently maintained and combinable) libraries. But whether I can get it running on Allegro CL 3.01 on my EeePC is rather questionable. I fear that in the last 5 major releases, quite a bit has happened ...
More: Systems Programming with PLT Scheme - nice tutorial on how to build a webserver with PLT Scheme.
PLT Scheme Blog - the new version is out now! And one of the nice new features: typed-scheme is integrated.
PLT Scheme version 4.0 is Coming Soon - the best Scheme system in the world will soon have a new version with many new features and some background changes. Sounds very promising.
impromptu - new version of the squeaking Scheme for the Mac.
Ready Lisp: Common Lisp for Mac OS X - cool. After the Eclipse version, there is now also the classic Emacs version. Very nice - Eclipse works on my iMac, but it's not really a hit there. And for a nostalgic Lisper like me, old == better.
Limp: When You Need More Than Just a Lisp - the proof that VIM is as powerful as Emacs. An integrated Lisp development environment in VIM.
cusp - I'm not a big fan of Eclipse (it just consumes more resources than I'm willing to grant an IDE), but this is quite nice. Namely, an IDE for Lisp that builds on the usual integration tools and thus creates an interactive Lisp environment - but with the typical Eclipse features for the editor and source navigation. Looks good. And apparently there's also a simple installer (which includes the appropriate SBCL) that also supports OS X. Maybe I should download Eclipse again ...
LispWithCusp - in case anyone wonders why I can warm up to Eclipse and Lisp in combination at all. Yes, the whole thing already looks damn good. Reminds me a bit of the Apple Dylan environment. Someday, current IDEs will catch up to the power of the old tools. Cusp already looks really usable.
MCL 5.2 has been released as open source - unfortunately probably not running under Rosetta, so nothing for Intel Mac users (which excludes almost everyone who has something modern from Apple). Well, the manufacturing company is probably more or less history, but maybe there will soon be a version that works with Rosetta - or someone ports the OpenMCL Compiler Backend into this version.
Ur-Scheme: A GPL self-hosting compiler from a subset of R5RS Scheme to fast Linux x86 asm - I like such projects, no matter how pointless they may be.
Programming Nu - had I already seen that? It's something like F-Script, but with Lisp-like syntax instead of Smalltalk-like syntax.
Arc - does anyone remember the fuss Paul Graham made about the 100-year-language? And that he wanted to achieve it with Arc? Well, he has scaled back: Arc is now just a language for exploratory programming. If you look at it, it looks like Common Lisp without the advanced features, with a more compact (but incompatible with other Lisp) syntax and some ready-made libraries to relatively easily put together a web application. Not really particularly exciting. There was already Picolisp for that - and if he is already based on MzScheme, one could simply use that, it has a much larger library and is used by more than just a few grumpy-old-men ... (and the excuse he gives for supporting only ASCII as a character set is simply embarrassing - especially since his underlying infrastructure cleanly supports Unicode ...)
New version of Ready Lisp for Mac OS X available - anyone who wants to test Common Lisp in a typical work environment, this package makes it typically easy on a Mac. Simply download a DMG, put the bundle in the Applications folder and off you go. The package includes AquaMacs, Slime, and SBCL, which is quite decent. Unfortunately, it's only for 10.5 - so not usable for me.
Clojure - interesting Lisp dialect that compiles directly to Java bytecode and integrates well with Java, but is conceptually more aligned with Erlang's ideas (no object orientation of its own, but a functional model as the basis, strong focus on parallelism) and makes extensive use of concepts from Common Lisp (macros, multimethods). Sounds very interesting.
CL-OBJC project - Cocoa applications with sbcl or Allegro.
Re: digitool MCL clozure OpenMCL - yay! MCL will soon be open source - only for PPC, but if the OpenMCL people bring their backends into it, it will soon be available for Intel as well. Would be very nice, even if it might only have historical significance.
Genera Concepts - who is interested, why Genera is so brilliant and why many people think that it is conceptually far ahead of even today's systems.
Alligator Eggs! - by far the strangest explanation of the Lambda Calculus I have ever seen.
Lambda Associates Home Page - Qi, a functional language based on Common Lisp. Freely available and runnable on various Lisp implementations.
AllegroGraph - interesting product, an RDF Triple Store. The whole thing is based on an elaborate Common Lisp system. And the platform is also available for OS X. If you are willing to pay the irrationally high prices of Franz Inc.
Vendetta Online - digging through their news there and finding out that their server side is created in Lisp and Erlang. Originally Lisp, which is slowly being migrated to Erlang (due to Erlang's suitability for parallel and distributed systems). Cool. And there's a Mac OS X version of their game client too!
ETOS Compiler - compiles Erlang source to Scheme (Gambit-C).
Vista Smalltalk Wiki - I had already seen this before, but there's a reason for the repetition: I only noticed today that Vista Smalltalk is not just a Smalltalk in Flash (ActionScript), but that it contains its own Lisp layer on which it is based. So a Smalltalk in Lisp in ActionScript ...
(The Scheme Way): Erlang or Gambit-C/Termite? A practitioner's perspective - Erlang wins the comparison. Some good points - especially Erlang's infrastructure is simply better and more mature.
BKNR - and something like Lisp on Rails. Although that would be more like an ICE with a double power car and an extra track.
CLiki : CommonLispPrevalence - securing internal objects against system terminations through parallel transaction logs. Essentially what Smalltalk does by default with the changelog and the image.
HUNCHENTOOT - The Common Lisp web server formerly known as TBNL - strange name, interesting package.
Lispbox - looks really nice now, ready-made packages with integrated Lisp and Emacs to get started with the book. Since I finally ordered the book (Practical Common Lisp), I'll probably take a closer look at this.