What is life? This question keeps many people awake at night and has led to rafts of definitions, some involving features (procreation, metabolism and so forth), some involving chemistry, entropy or energy flux and some are of a more philosophical bent. A BBC article noted there are over 100 definitions of life and...

The usual way to develop programs in Common Lisp is to use SLIME in Emacs, which starts an implementation and provides a REPL. When a program needs to be running in production, one can either execute it from source or compile it to an executable core, for example with sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die in SBCL. While...