Community
Lisp is commonly held to be a dead language, so you're probably wondering about evidence of some signs of life here. In the last few years (since 2001 or so), the Free Common Lisp community has seen:
- At least four new or recently invigorated projects to produce free Lisp implementations:
- other free Lisp implementations continuing to develop with their customary previous vigour:
- This site, a popular Wiki-like web site for free CL resources grew from
basically nothing and 100 daily page views at its inception in May
2000 to 8000 pages (maybe about half of them describing real free CL
projects or applications; the others include navigational pages,
homepages, documents, wishlists, vapourware projects, hints and
tips etc) and 1-2000 page views/day in December 2003 (these numbers are ballpark at best)
http://www.cliki.net/
- Project hosting service for open source Common Lisp projects: Common-lisp.net
- Two projects (overlapping marginally, different emphases) to create archives of free Lisp code along the lines of CTAN or CPAN:
- A similar project for scheme, the Comprehensive Scheme Archive Network, has been started on
http://strader.xs4all.nl/csan/index.html.
- An IRC channel on the Open Projects network with about 150-200 users (at some times of day, I'm told, it has had more people connected than are in any other language-based channel on that net except C)
irc.freenode.net / #lisp
- Vendors of commercial Lisp implementations (Franz) and Lisp-based applications (onShore) releasing significant and useful projects to the Open Source community.
- Weblogs
- Event?s and Conferences:
Technical fixes for social problems: software which facilitates bringing people together.
- Cliki, the software running this site
- Climbatree, a CL version of advogato's trust metric
Pages in this topic: ALU David Steuber Doug Tolton International Lisp Conference 2002 International Lisp Conference 2003 Lisp Deployment WikiNode
Also linked from: Bradford W. Miller index
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