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

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