Re:Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
by kazinator on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:27PM
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> The link between UNIX and LISP knowledge is missing.
That's where TXR comes in. A pragmatic scripting language geared toward the POSIX platform (with a half decent Windows port).
> I spent countless hours trying to figure out how to get the shell program's getopts equivalent in LISP
This is a nuisance area in developing utilities that are usable by others, and an area in which consistency with established conventions is required. For that reason, I included option processing in TXR Lisp.
That's where TXR comes in. A pragmatic scripting language geared toward the POSIX platform (with a half decent Windows port).
> I spent countless hours trying to figure out how to get the shell program's getopts equivalent in LISP
This is a nuisance area in developing utilities that are usable by others, and an area in which consistency with established conventions is required. For that reason, I included option processing in TXR Lisp.
http://nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-02C70C38