So, for my 452 final, as previously mentioned, I’m working up some Lisp. One of the obstacles to doing so is, how ought I to turn it in?

1. Save a log of my programs in action on my own machine, annotate it, turn it in as a text file?

2. Export my entire Lisp runtime as an executable (probably some 25 megs), and post it for download?

3. Attempt to embed my work into a Lisp web server hosted in a vm on my own box?

–I’ve been leaning toward (3), but putting together a working web server using Hunchentoot on SBCL in Linux is turning out to be a challenge. I enjoy the embarrassing dearth of low-level info the internet yields on the subject (especially published since 2007), as it makes me feel like it might afford me opportunity for (some kind of) publication; but at present I’m experiencing it mainly as a vexing obstacle.

–And on the subject of publication: though I’m finding a certain amount of arrogant-sounding opining on the subject on a few specific (long defunct) wikis, I’m finding virtually nothing in ‘the literature’ on the use of s-expressions as markup (or, speaking a little more broadly, the relative merits of s-expressions and Lisp in information organization). It seems to me such a conscpicuous lack that it causes me to doubt my own information-seeking skills; but if I’m not mistaken, there may be room for research here.

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