Archive - December, 2007

There’s a new blog aggregator dedicated to Sage, it is called Planet Sage. Enjoy!

Trivial doctests in Common Lisp

Lisp illustration by Conrad Barski

The pros and cons of doctests have been discussed elsewhere so I won’t enter that debate here.

I was told it was trivial to roll your own doctest suite in Common Lisp. I have done that and it is easy indeed but I have included the code in incf-cl for those who would like to use it right away.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Madrid 2007.12.03

It was an awesome and very energetic concert!

Call graphs using the GNU Project Debugger

Chris Ball asked everyone who likes Unix for a tool which would be to function calls what strace and ltrace are for system and library calls respectively.

I wanted to write this myself for a long time but what prevented me from doing so was the fact that I had come up with a trivial shell/awk script that achieved almost the same goal. Continue Reading…