Damn. I can't install Cygwin under Wine 0.9.9. :-)

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Javier asks in his post <1152957974.751393.130630@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> on comp.lang.lisp what's happening to cliki.net. The site is down. And about two days later there's no information in the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp or on Planet Lisp. No blog mentions anything. It's like nobody really cares. But cliki.net is heavily used for "Common Lisp's answer to CPAN", ASDF-Install. I'm guessing there are just some technical problems and danb has enough to do to fix it. So I don't want to critize him or anyone else who is helping to fix the problem, instead of writing about it in his blog or on the news....

Willem Broekema announced CLPython in his news posting <1152045368.275100.86920@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> today. That's really crazy shit! (Meant in a good way! :-) A Python implementation in Common Lisp. At the moment it's Allegro only, but in the future we could perhaps compile CLPython with Python to run Python ... (CMUCL's compiler is called Python, too. :-) Sound's like fun. By the way: There's a similar approach called Python-on-lisp. This project uses the real Python and builds a bridge to it....

People use the opportunity to write about their feelings regarding the "Lisp community" in the comments of one reddit.com post. The post is currently on the front page of reddit.com. And rising.

Mixing different languages (not programming languages :-) into one blog looks a little bit chaotic. Like reading English blogs on LiveJournal.com with a German browser. (They translate everything surrounding the English entries. Looks really funny.) To be able to say some really important things (hehe) in my mother tongue, I've started a new blog called Dem Steff soi Blog. There I'll mix two languages: German and a local German dialect. :-)

Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. And I'm pretty sure this was due to the massive amount of posts and comments in many weblogs. Lordi being nominated for Finland was a sensation which roared through large parts of the blogosphere. And a few days before the actual contest, you could have read some more. Lordi's performance (YouTube) wasn't really bad. But I wouldn't have chosen such a song to introduce "...

The Haskell guys made some efforts to write good benchmark entries for The Computer Language Shootout Benchmarks. The results are amazing. Well, it's just marketing, but they've done it well.

Current version 0.4.3 of CL-EMB now uses the faster file slurping function from http://www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/slurp.html and got a new template tag @insert I fixed an example for generator loops in the README

From the NEWS file in the current CVS version of SBCL: new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE canbe used for bundling the runtime and the core file into oneexecutable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCLplatforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)