Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules
Why Hacker News recommends it
Held up in Lisp threads as a striking example of Lisp powering cutting-edge science.
What it is
Christian Schafmeister's Google Tech Talk on Clasp and CANDO, a Common Lisp implementation on LLVM and C++ used to design molecules, including energy minimization and force-field calculations.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec nabla9 · 2016-02 · on “The Lisp Curse (2011)”
Lisp is programmable programming language, especially Common Lisp. It works as programmer amplifier. Better you are, more you benefit from it. I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed: [LINK] and [this video]
Strong rec reitzensteinm · 2020-10 · on “Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages [pdf]”
Your Google talk was one of my top 10 ever, it blew me away. It's not uncommon in the tech industry to build some mad scientist solution - pardon the expression - because we're trying to do something pedestrian but have painted ourselves in to a corner, eg HipHop VM. Doing it to help with cutting edge science is genuinely exciting. [this video]
Cites TeMPOraL · 2016-05 · on “"I know how to program, but I don't know what to program"”
Yesterday I was on the European Lisp Symposium, listening to the talk about Clasp and CANDO. Christian Schafmeister, who is a chemist , basically wrote his own Common Lisp implementation with focus on speed and C++ interop to have a base to run a molecule design tool on - because no available software was up to the task he's doing (designing stuff like water filters out of molecules)[0]. What it made me realize is that... I need to find myself something else to do than programming. Something else to learn about in greater detail. There are many, many interesting problems out there to solve, but you have to know about them first. Programming is great as a support speciality, if you have anoth
Cites pjmlp · 2018-10 · on “How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language”
"How the strengths of Lisp-family languages facilitate building complex and flexible bioinformatics applications." [LINK] -- US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health "Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules" [this video] -- GoogleTechTalks
Cites jakeogh · 2021-05 · on “SICL: A New Common Lisp Implementation”
Ah, related to #clasp: [LINK] Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming [LINK] 2018 LLVM Developers Meeting: C. Schafmeister lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [this video] Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules [LINK] Modular Polymer Catalysts - Chris Schafmeister [LINK] 10S6P4 Christian Schafmeister 2010 UNTT 3rd Annual Conference Session 6 Presentation 4
Cites jakeogh · 2022-11 · on “Christian Schafmeister – Atomically Precise Catalysts”
More presentations! I think two are almost the same presentation: [LINK] (July 2010) 10S6P4 Christian Schafmeister 2010 UNTT 3rd Annual Conference Session 6 Presentation 4 [LINK] (July 2015) Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming [this video] (Aug 2015) Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules [LINK] (Oct 2018) Modular Polymer Catalysts - Chris Schafmeister [LINK] (Nov 2018) LLVM Developers Meeting: C. Schafmeister lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM