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A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp

15 points by zaph0d 18y ago

mahmud 18y ago
zaph0d, if you know the author please tell him to put a summary of the project in cliki, http://www.cliki.net/chronicity http://www.cliki.net/chronicity, that way automatic tools like asdf-install can see it.
- zaph0d 18y ago
  Yes, I have told him. Thanks.
- chaitanya 18y ago
  Hi mahmud, Thanks for the tip. Chronicity is now asdf-installable. I hadn't worked with asdf-install in such a long time, that I didn't even think about making Chronicity asdf-installable. But it was nice to find out that it actually can be installed with asdf-install.
  - mahmud 18y ago
    Very good Chaitanya, welcome aboard yar! :-)
andr 18y ago
http://php.net/strtotime/ http://php.net/strtotime/ I don't mean to be a troll, but the fact that a simple function that has been available in other languages for years is only now making it to CL is a red flag for people considering learning Lisp.
- mahmud 18y ago
  what the hell? this is not "just coming to lisp", it's something someone wrote as a personal hack. I upvoted it and commented to encourage more lispers to post here. Erik Naggum's essay on the subject is highly referenced and cited by people developing time and date libraries for other languages and systems: http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html The premiere text on time and date algorithms IS written in Common Lisp: http://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Millennium-Edward-Reingold/dp/0521777526/ http://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Millennium-Ed... And here is a taste of what's out there; http://www.cliki.net/TIMER http://www.cliki.net/TIMER http://www.cliki.net/net-telent-date http://www.cliki.net/net-telent-date http://www.cliki.net/local-time http://www.cliki.net/local-time http://www.cliki.net/Date-Calc http://www.cliki.net/Date-Calc http://www.cliki.net/cl-l10n http://www.cliki.net/cl-l10n
- lispm 18y ago
  Yeah, like the Lisp Machine from 1980. Command: (software-type) "Lisp Machine" Command: (time:parse "twenty-nine years before yesterday") 0 0 0 4 4 80 4 NIL :RELATIVE

15 points by zaph0d 18y ago

zaph0d, if you know the author please tell him to put a summary of the project in cliki, http://www.cliki.net/chronicity http://www.cliki.net/chronicity, that way automatic tools like asdf-install can see it.

zaph0d 18y ago
Yes, I have told him. Thanks.
chaitanya 18y ago
Hi mahmud, Thanks for the tip. Chronicity is now asdf-installable. I hadn't worked with asdf-install in such a long time, that I didn't even think about making Chronicity asdf-installable. But it was nice to find out that it actually can be installed with asdf-install.
- mahmud 18y ago
  Very good Chaitanya, welcome aboard yar! :-)

andr 18y ago

http://php.net/strtotime/ http://php.net/strtotime/ I don't mean to be a troll, but the fact that a simple function that has been available in other languages for years is only now making it to CL is a red flag for people considering learning Lisp.

mahmud 18y ago
what the hell? this is not "just coming to lisp", it's something someone wrote as a personal hack. I upvoted it and commented to encourage more lispers to post here. Erik Naggum's essay on the subject is highly referenced and cited by people developing time and date libraries for other languages and systems: http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html The premiere text on time and date algorithms IS written in Common Lisp: http://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Millennium-Edward-Reingold/dp/0521777526/ http://www.amazon.com/Calendrical-Calculations-Millennium-Ed... And here is a taste of what's out there; http://www.cliki.net/TIMER http://www.cliki.net/TIMER http://www.cliki.net/net-telent-date http://www.cliki.net/net-telent-date http://www.cliki.net/local-time http://www.cliki.net/local-time http://www.cliki.net/Date-Calc http://www.cliki.net/Date-Calc http://www.cliki.net/cl-l10n http://www.cliki.net/cl-l10n
lispm 18y ago
Yeah, like the Lisp Machine from 1980. Command: (software-type) "Lisp Machine" Command: (time:parse "twenty-nine years before yesterday") 0 0 0 4 4 80 4 NIL :RELATIVE