As you might know already Pico has a GUI system similar to for instance Haml. That’s all very well and fine, the problem is that as opposed to Haml a typical Pico GUI script contains a lot of logic as well, I shudder to think having designers poking around in there to output the HTML just like they want it. And we are not quite yet at the point where we are doing completely CSS controlled designs, it’s a goal though.... Read More

This is another step towards explaining how a registration form in Pico Lisp can work, I promise you we will get there but there is a lot of ground to cover still.... Read More

In this tutorial I will assume you’ve already glanced at the documents I linked to in the prior article. I hope you still have cms.db intact.... Read More

This time we will examine some more complex relationships with a common scenario, the CMS.... Read More

Let’s walk through a simple and usual example, what would constitute a user table in MySQL:... Read More

Let’s first look at a simple single inheritance example:... Read More

Pico Lisp has a very nice object system which will take some time to explore, let’s begin with simple examples and work towards more complex scenarios.... Read More

Let’s examine a common example, a list of people forming a table without key access to each person could look like this:... Read More

By now you should have compiled and installed Pico as per the install instructions. We will start the interpreter with ./dbg. You can create a file and just copy paste the tutorial snippets and run them in the interpreter with : (load “tutorial.l”). To rerun you hit “Esc” followed by “k” to step through prior commands, hit “Enter” when you see the load command. ... Read More

As I announced earlier, the plan was to create some small proof of concept web-thing in c-lisp but it didn’t work out. Instead I ended up doing just that in PicoLisp instead, I guess me and c-lisp was not meant to be. Anyway, Pico is created by Alex Burger without whose help and patience I wouldn’t have gone very far.... Read More