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Library genesis LISP by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold K.P. Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold K.P. Pearson Education (US). This third edition is a revised and expanded version of Winston and Horn's best-selling introduction.

EEL-5840: Elements of Machine Intelligence FALL SEMESTER 2008 2008 Catalog Data: Elements of Machine Intelligence (3) Prereq: Senior or graduate standing. Engineering and hardware concepts pertaining to the design of intelligent computer systems. Textbook(s): LISP, Winston & Horn, 3 rd edition or later, 0-201-08319-1. The application of mapcar is explained through the following examples mapcar 1 from SCHOOL OF MCA at IGNOU Regional Centre.

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I am relatively new to Lisps. I have some experience using Clojure and have also written a small program in Racket, which solves (very successfully) a relatively complex robotic path planning task. Generally, I do a lot of driver/systems programming, numerical, and library/infrastructure stuff; mostly, I have been working in C/C++, but also Python, Java, FORTH, IEEE Structured Text and such. What is most interesting for me in Clojure is the philosophy on concurrency and parallelism, I also like the focus on functional purity and the elegance of the language a lot.

What I was missing is the access to the native environment and scripting capabilities and this (together with Racket's copyleft licensing) is the main reason why I started to learn Racket. I am quite happy with Rackets (Schemes) minimalistic philosophy. It seems to offer a performance roughly in the range of Java combined with a lot of expressive power and the ability to quickly prototype complex code like one would do in Python, with an expressive power and means for abstraction which are far far larger than Python. I am very happy with the quality and scope of the documentation.

What I sometimes miss in Racket compared to C/C++ is the capability to drop down to very fast native code, and the concurrency features which I perceive as weaker than the concurrency primitives that Clojure offers.

I've made some experiments with writing 'hot loop' functions in Rust, and calling into them using Rackets FFI, and this works quite elegantly, with the modest drawback that the Racket/native transition costs itself noticeable time, so one needs to write large enough chunks in Rust (or C) to yield a net speed-up. What I am still extremely positively surprised about is that it is possible to translate simple Racket functions almost verbatim into Rust - it is no problem at all to maintain Racket's functional style, and in this respect, the language boundary has a very low impedance (but that might become more difficult if more complex memory management is involved, one probably needs to export a constructor-like function which returns a boxed, reference-counted object, and a destructor-like function which calls Rusts 'drop' statement).

Currently, I am pondering is whether it would make sense to explore Common Lisp a bit further, and with this I mean probably SBCL. My opinion might be to a good part be based on half-conscious assumptions and prejudices which I might have picked up in the last 30 years (for example, for a long time I was not aware that the performance difference between C++ and Java has become so small that it becomes harder and harder to justify to implement specific classes of applications in C++).

I get that CL is not at all minimalistic and a fairly large language, and I am wondering what would be the practical advantages and disadvantages of SBCL compared to Racket. My expectation is that the performance would be better, and that a purely functional style would be less well supported. I expect a better support for low-level concurrency primitives than for Racket, but nothing that matches Clojure - here, the 'memory model' seems to be much more similar to C, with everything globally shared and mutable. I'd expect that it is about as easy to call into functions with C API, and I am totally clueless what the costs of such C API calls would be.

I also expect good to very good support for scripting, prototyping, and development of relatively complex low-level algorithms. However, I am also expecting that SBCL is less well documented, much less easy to start with, and perhaps more of mixed quality.

There seems to be a general opinion that Scheme implementations are good for teaching while CL implementations are good for doing 'real work'. I don't have a very clear picture what that means, and this is my main question. My guess is that when I need, for example, a XML or JSON parser library, that it would be very easy to get a high-quality implementation and stunning abstractions accessible from Clojure, and at least possible to access a good implementation in CL, but perhaps less so for Racket.

A hot secret wish I have is something like Clojure's concurrency primitives and immutable data types for Common Lisp. Are there any chances that this wish becomes true?

Pierre Lavoie