This post deals with writing a simple CRUD application in Common Lisp. The code for this demo project is available on github Introduction We will write a simple TODO list application which will store its data in a postgres database. This application will have a basic terminal based interface. Running The Application Clone the git repository into a location where asdf can find it. $ cd ~/common-lisp $ git clone https://github. Read more

This post is meant to be a quick start guide to setup a CL project and writing code. If you do not have a CL Environment yet, please check out my previous post. In Clojure you could use lein or boot to quickly create the skeleton of a project and you could start coding away. In common lisp we use a library called cl-project to achieve the same Quick Note about Project Location Modern CommonLisp implementations use asdf to define systems/projects. Read more

Clojure is a great language and has a great community surrounding it. It is opinionated, and if you want to get down to business and write code that solves problems, it mostly just gets out of your way. It also lets me write lisp at work instead of Java! Clojure has also allowed me to become less intimidated with lisp in general, and when I started working on a personal hobby project I decided to pick up another lisp language. Read more