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Documentation

Main documentation and man pages

• newLISP Manual and Reference in HTML format, no frames.
  newLISP Manual and Reference in HTML format, with index frame.


• newLISP-GS guiserver GUI functions. Here in framed format


• Code Patterns in newLISP frequently used coding patterns in newLISP.


• Modules are documented using the newLISPdoc automatic documentation system.


• UNIX man page for command line parameters - newlisp(1)


• UNIX man page for newLISPdoc - newlispdoc(1)


• Release Notes 10.7.5


• For building, testing and installing see INSTALL.


• Frequently asked questions about newLISP are answered on the FAQ page.


• PCRE Regular Expressions man page and as pure text from http://pcre.org

Tutorials, introductions and translations

• Introduction to newLISP on WikiBooks.


• newLISP ユーザー マニュアルとリファレンス is a translation of the Users Manual and Function Reference into Japanese by Johu from short story または 晴耕雨読な日々 . Also available with index frame.


• Code Patterns translated to Japanese by Johu.


• Code Patterns 代码模式 translated to Chinese by Winger from 天国之翼.


• GS Guiserver GUI functions translated to Japanese by Johu.

Videos

Thanks to Michael Michaels from neglOOk for the following instructional movies:

• newLISP Introduction: Learn the core elements of newLISP (10 min) or as a Slideshow (51 slides).


• What The FOOP?: Introduction into FOOP (Functional Object Oriented Programming), also covers the changes in v.10.2.


• gc - Counting words at Google: Experience how a small commandline utility for Google counts is written (6 min). The source.


• Contexts: Learn how to use namespaces in newLISP (12 min).

Shell Games - Videos

Michael Michaels from neglOOk produced this series of eduactional quickies. Each one of them shows an important aspect or pattern of newLISP programming (m:ss) :

• Number generators (2:46)
• Pushing and popping lists (2:39)
• Packaging data with contexts (2:06)
• Implicit indexing (8:29)
• Selecting more than one element (2:43)
• Passing data by reference (2:56)
• Appending strings (3:47)
• Manipulating functions after definition (3:16)
• Make destructive functions non-destructive (2:32)
• The format function (5:37)
• The exists function (2:37)
• The for-all function (1:39)
• Loops (7:00)
• Reading and writing files (3:54)
• Clean and filter (3:28)
• Expand (5:29)
• Reverse and rotate (3:54)
• Starts with, ends with (4:30)
• Structuring applications (3:20)
• Local symbols (5:00)
• Memoization (2:54)
• Upper, lower, title -case (1:49)
• Sort (3:36)

Also available at the original site: http://www.neglook.com/?Shell_Games

newLISP internals

• Automatic Memory Management in newLISP


• Expression evaluation, Implicit Indexing, Contexts and Default Functors in the newLISP Scripting Language