Update for 2014

Author: pnathan

content-footer.html

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 <center style="font-size: x-small">
 
-  <p>&copy; Paul Nathan 2013</p>
+  <p>&copy; Paul Nathan 2013,2014</p>
   <p><a href="https://github.com/pnathan/articulate-common-lisp"> Github source</a> - contributions welcome!</p>
 
 </center>

env~emacs.md

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Usually you want to get SLIME installed for your development.
 If you're using emacs23, SLIME can be found
 [here](http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/).
 
-Emacs24 has it in its package manager (`M-x package-list-packages`). However, I
-have not had good experiences with the SLIME found in the Marmalade emacs repo.
+Emacs24 has it in its package manager (`M-x
+package-list-packages`).
 
 
 I like to use the following elisp to configure SLIME:
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ I like to use the following elisp to configure SLIME:
 (setq slime-net-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
 ```
 
-Another useful trick is:
+Another useful tool is:
 
 ```
 ;; highlight parens
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ editing features that surprised him on first use.
 When you have configured your SLIME in a `fancy` fashion, you will find a SLIME
 REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop) buffer created in your Emacs window.
 
-This provides an interactive view into Common Lisp. You can evaluate functions you
-are writing in the source file and immediately use them in the REPL. This provides a
-very fast "code and test" facility.
+This provides an interactive view into Common Lisp. You can evaluate
+functions you are writing in the source file and immediately use them
+in the REPL. This provides a very fast "code and test" facility.
+p

env~lisp-system.md

@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ limited-functionality personal editions. This author has
 had good experiences with LispWorks Personal Edition; it has limitations
 on its use, however.
 
-Mobile developers may find [mocl](https://wukix.com/mocl) a very interesting
-product in this space; it is a recently (2013) released Common Lisp system designed
-for interoperation with the base systems.
+Mobile developers may find [mocl](https://wukix.com/mocl) a very
+interesting product in this space; it is a recently (2013) released
+Common Lisp system designed for interoperation with the base systems.
 
 Tabulation  of systems
 ---
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@ SBCL  Native High speed compiler
  ACL  Native Professional platform
 ABCL  JVM    Java interop
  ECL  C      C interop, has iOS port
-MOCL  Native Stores CL as a library for mobile devices - iOS & Android 
+MOCL  Native Stores CL as a library for mobile devices - iOS & Android

env~repl.md

@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@
 %
 %
 
-One of Lisp's biggest contributions to the world of software development is the idea of an 
-interactive command line as part of your programming environment, or, REPL. REPL stands for
-Read Evaluate Print Loop, which will become clear as we work through this file.
+One of Lisp's biggest contributions to the world of software
+development is the idea of an interactive command line as part of your
+programming environment, or, REPL. REPL stands for Read Evaluate Print
+Loop, which will become clear as we work through this file.
 
-In this article we'll assume that you've configured your Lisp environment correctly and
-now are trying to write Lisp code (Congratulations)!
+In this article we'll assume that you've configured your Lisp
+environment correctly and now are trying to write Lisp code
+(Congratulations)!
 
-Let's say that you have your `emacs` and `SLIME` set up. Then, let's load our SLIME. `M-x slime`.  This will 
+Let's say that you have your `emacs` and `SLIME` set up. Then, let's
+load our SLIME. `M-x slime`.  This will create a REPL buffer for you.

env~sbcl-setup.md

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 %
 
 Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is aggressively maintained with releases
-approximately monthly as of 2012. SBCL has a long history, with its
-source code stretching back to the early '80s under different
-systems. This tutorial recommends SBCL due to its popularity at the time
-of writing. Other opens source systems such as ECL, CLISP, CMUCL, and
-CCL exist.
+approximately monthly. SBCL has a long history, with its source code
+stretching back to the early '80s under different systems. This
+tutorial recommends SBCL due to its popularity at the time of
+writing. Other opens source systems such as ECL, CLISP, CMUCL, and CCL
+exist.
 
 Installing on Linux and OSX
 ---
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Dear Windows SBCL user, please tell us how it's done!
 
 Further installation on Linux/OSX
 ---
-Sometimes the SBCL you pick up from sbcl.org isn't as feature-complete 
-as you want, or perhaps you want to recompile it for your own reasons 
+Sometimes the SBCL you pick up from sbcl.org isn't as feature-complete
+as you want, or perhaps you want to recompile it for your own reasons
 (i.e., the Hunchentoot web server requires threads).
 
-In order to do this, download the *source* SBCL package and issue this 
+In order to do this, download the *source* SBCL package and issue this
 set of commands:
 
 ```Bash
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ pushd doc/manual/ && make && popd
 sudo sh ./install.sh
 ```
 
-* --fancy builds with several optional features as of 1.1.3: 
-  :sb-core-compression :sb-xref-for-internals :sb-after-xc-core, plus 
+* --fancy builds with several optional features as of 1.1.3:
+  :sb-core-compression :sb-xref-for-internals :sb-after-xc-core, plus
   threading on supported platforms.
 
-* For platforms with very limited memory, --dynamic-space-size=<MB> 
+* For platforms with very limited memory, --dynamic-space-size=<MB>
   can help ensure that you don't blow the internal Lisp heap.

index.md

@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-% articulate-common-lisp
+% Articulate Common Lisp
 %
 %
 
-how to write Common Lisp in 2013
+how to write Common Lisp in 2014
 
 an initiation manual for the uninitiated
 
-```
-(initialize-new-lisper 'YOU)
-
-```
-
-
 ---
 
 * Set up your [lisp system](./env:lisp-system.html).

make.lisp

@@ -179,13 +179,13 @@
        (build-a-file file)
        ;; Convert to `:` format when on Unix, i.e., a build machine.
        (when (find :unix *features*)
-	 (let ((args (list (format nil "site/~a.html" file)
-				     (format nil "site/~a.html"
-					     (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all
-					      "~"
-					      file
-					      ":")))))
-		 (external-program:run "cp" args))))
+         (let ((args (list (format nil "site/~a.html" file)
+                                     (format nil "site/~a.html"
+                                             (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all
+                                              "~"
+                                              file
+                                              ":")))))
+           (external-program:run "cp" args :error *standard-output*))))
 
   (format t "~&final reticulation...~&")
   ;; Get the static content over.

makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 .PHONY: all
 
-all:
-	sbcl --non-interactive  --load make.lisp --eval '(build-files)'
+all: sbcl
+
+sbcl:
+        sbcl --non-interactive  --load make.lisp --eval '(build-files)'
+
+ccl:
+        lx86cl64 -l make.lisp  -e '(build-files)'