We address the need for expanding the presence of the Lisp family of programming languages in bioinformatics and computational biology research. Languages of this family, like Common Lisp, Scheme, or Clojure, facilitate the creation of powerful and flexible software models that are required for complex and rapidly evolving domains like biology. We will point out several important key features t...

An onolysis of student learning with the LISP tutor indicates thot while LISP is complex, learning it is simple. The key to factoring out the complexity of LiSP is to monitor the leorning of the 500 productions in the LISP tutor which describe the progromming skill. The learning of these productions follows the power-low learning curve typical of skill acquisition. There is transfer from other ...

AspectL adds a number of features to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) that have been developed in the recent years in the AOSD community. According to the Lisp spirit, some of them have been generalized in the process of translating them to Common Lisp. These generalizations are likely to be interesting for designers of other aspectoriented programming languages as well since the bulk of As...

A system, ca l l ed GAP, which automat ica l ly produces LISP func t ions from example computations is descr ibed. GAP uses a knowledge of LISP programming to i n d u c t i v e l y i n f e r the LISP f u n c t i o n 'obviously ' intended by a given ' i o p a i r ' ( i . e . a s ing le input to be presented to the f u n c t i o n and the output which must r e s u l t ) . The system is w r i t t ...

INTRODUCTION There exist various experiences in constructing applications in functional and logic languages alone as reported, e.g., in the conference series Lisp and Functional Programming and Practical Applications of Prolog, respectively. Applications in integrated functional-logic languages (Hanus, 1994) have been less frequent, however, and little has been reported about experiences with t...

Advocating the use of a Common Lisp as a central organizing environment for building scientific computing systems runs counter to the conventional wisdom, which suggests that languages like Fortran, C++, or even Java, are more suitable. We prefer Lisp based on its debugging features, interactivity, memory model, existing code-base for computer algebra and user interfaces, and for purposes of th...

Lisp-based HTTP servers provide a starting point for building Web-based applications written in Common Lisp. They do not provide a complete solution. An application needs additional facilities for generating content and managing dialogs. We present some lightweight tools that have been essential in producing applications with complex interactive interfaces. Expressing computed responses is grea...

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We describe STELLA,1 a strongly typed, object-oriented, Lisp-like language, designed to facilitate symbolic programming tasks in artificial intelligence applications. STELLA preserves those features of Common Lisp deemed essential for symbolic programming such as built-in support for dynamic data structures, heterogeneous collections, firstclass symbols, powerful iteration constructs, name spac...