selwynsimsek · March 30, 2018 13:08
diff --git a/cl-help.lisp b/cl-help.lisp
 ;;; A guide I made which summarises the best way to do typical tasks in Common Lisp, using the easiest or most standard libraries out there.
 ;;; By 'typical' I mean tasks which are typically achieved using some standard library in Python, which in Lisp would require the use of Alexandria
 ;;; or some other such helper library which is not covered in the HyperSpec or introductory texts. May be useful to others.

 ;; Executing a shell task with real-time output (this is the best I could do, unfortunately SBCL specific and not Lispy.
 ;; Useful for long running tasks like builds which may take some hours to complete.
 (sb-ext:run-program "/bin/bash" (list "-c" 
                                      "echo a && sleep 1 && echo b && sleep 2 && echo c")
                    :input t :output *standard-output*)

 ;; Conjoining/disjoining predicates

 #'alexandria:conjoin
 #'alexandria:disjoin

 ;; Uniform random distribution
 (random 1.0)
	;;; A guide I made which summarises the best way to do typical tasks in Common Lisp, using the easiest or most standard libraries out there.
	;;; By 'typical' I mean tasks which are typically achieved using some standard library in Python, which in Lisp would require the use of Alexandria
	;;; or some other such helper library which is not covered in the HyperSpec or introductory texts. May be useful to others.

	;; Executing a shell task with real-time output (this is the best I could do, unfortunately SBCL specific and not Lispy.
	;; Useful for long running tasks like builds which may take some hours to complete.
	(sb-ext:run-program "/bin/bash" (list "-c"
	"echo a && sleep 1 && echo b && sleep 2 && echo c")
	:input t :output standard-output)

	;; Conjoining/disjoining predicates

	#'alexandria:conjoin
	#'alexandria:disjoin

	;; Uniform random distribution
	(random 1.0)