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I was looking looking for the sources of real-life applications that are written in Lisp. For example a Pacman clone or a word processor would qualify as such.
How about a
web server?
text editor?
a type setter?
an interactive musical score editing application?
More example can be had at the cliki. Just stroll around a little bit.
The package-management application (similar to apt-get) that I use for Arch Linux, Paktahn, is written in Common Lisp.
Here is a list of applications written in Common Lisp. How "real world" they are is debatable, but since you consider a pacman clone to be "real world", I assume you will be satisfied.
Two big things come to mind.
EMACS
Maxima
The first has an incredible number of customizations. It would not surprise me in the least to find Pac-Man implemented in EMACS. Maxima does symbolic mathematics, so I imagine it'd be more difficult to grok the code.
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I am very interested in machine learning. i have an idea to develop a program which can generate a source code according to a given standards. for example if i have trained the system to how to write something to console and the standard way of using variables then it should be able to generate a source code for anything which i ask to print something to the console, likewise. Is there any resources source codes or existing open source projects?
You might be interested in Genetic Programming. It's a genetic algorithm that operates directly on programs.
The demo I saw used Lisp (Common Lisp, I think), which is a natural fit, but any language with eval should be decently easy to use.
The Wikipedia page lists a whole pile of implementations, many of them open source, so you should be able to start there.
This sounds like this is would be a Constraint Satisfaction [CSPs] or Search Problem, these approaches would probably be your best bet:
Genetic Algorithm
Some sort of goal seaking heuristic [with negative/positive reenforcements]
The algorithms that are under the CSP category.
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I'd like to start programming in Scheme but the variety of different implementations is confusing. What are some advantages or disadvantages of various implementations?
Every implementation tends to focus on something different. Racket emphasizes its large libraries as "batteries included", while Ikarus Scheme touts itself as compiling fast code. You should examine implementations based on what you want. If you're just learning Scheme, DrRacket is a good choice with its friendly interface and specific environments for various Scheme books.
Also, you probably don't need to find a R6RS implementation, when most implementations target R5RS and most textbooks were written for R5RS and earlier.
Since you're looking to learn Scheme, I recommend The Little Schemer as an introduction to thinking using Scheme's lists and recursion.
Honestly, while each one has their own quirks and modifications to the standard, they're mostly the same. The biggest differences is how it compiles. You should probably just pick one and go with it.
Racket would be a good choice because it comes with a nice debugging IDE and is easy to set up.
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What is a good book or tutorial to learn Lisp?
Practical Common Lisp is an awesome (and free) book for anyone interested in the language.
If you like learning by writing games "Land of Lisp" is now available, see http://landoflisp.com
A good place to start off would be the ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham which is what I'm hooked onto right now :)
EDIT: As mentioned by spacemanaki "there a few areas where Graham's coding style should not be considered typical" and are listed here.
Lisp (3rd Ed) by Winston and Horn is actually a pretty good textbook. I picked it up for a steal (plenty of $2 used copies on Amazon) and I've found it to be a decent learning tool. it is sometimes easier to read than ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham, although some of the advanced stuff is a bit weird or out-of-date.
Have you ever look for at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books ?
One of the best books for a beginner to learn Lisp by David S. Touretzky: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
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I'm working through Practical Common Lisp presently
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
It's an excellent book with some practical assignments towards the end, but I'm looking for basic problems that explore the use of functions, variables and macros. Can anybody suggest a suitable resource to work through in order to reinforce the concepts presented?
Project Euler is a great source of programming problems
also, there is Rosetta Code
You may also want to try the SICP exercises in Common Lisp.
There are great exercises in ANSI Common Lisp the book, http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html, for each chapter. Great book too, my favorite to learn Lisp with and as a reference.
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What are the good "rich" IDEs for Lisp? To clarify by "rich" I mean it should have a good look-up reference, auto complete, auto inclusion, checking of various sorts, some kind of compilation support, version management, REPL, etc. I have reviewed some of the previous questions/answers (Such as What’s a good Common Lisp implementation for Windows?) but it really does not get to my need/question. I am used to Eclipse and have found (CUSP but activity/support seems light).
Don't hassle me about the phrase "rich" IDE, by saying that emacs or slime is wonderful and that it is and IDE. I have used emacs for years during college, I understand. I am wondering what else is out there (and good) more along the Visual Studio, Netbeans, or Eclipse, type UI and feature set?
Lispworks.
A friend of mine bought a copy himself to develop Lisp programs in his sparse time. (He is very experienced in Lisp)
Lispworks also has a free personal edition.
Hm, strange seeing you dismiss Emacs+Slime as it covers most (all?) the points you've mentioned and a lot more. Note that Slime != Emacs, at all.
edit: E.g., stuff like CUSP or Lispworks are not as rich as Emacs+Slime.
CUSP
I have not actually tried it but MCLIDE sounds nice. But I concur with most other: SLIME is great.