This is a copy of CLIP 1.4 from January 1994, slightly modified to work with modern systems:
- Added README and .ps converted to .pdf
- CLTL2 is not bleeding edge any more, actually, there is a new standard there
- Use closer-mop for access to MOP
- I am sure that bundled portable-defsystem was nice, but asdf is standard now
- Apparently, it used to be possible to declare named VALUES
Not to be confused with Clips, Clisp.
Originally designed to be used with Clasp (statistics package, not the new CL implementation), but output files work with any modern systems (e.g., R) as well.
See manual. Basically, define separately
- a system that needs to be observed/measured, aka simulation
- collection of measurements that can be done, aka clips, as in alligator clips (e.g., values of variables). These can be run once per trial, on a trigger, or on a schedule
- a set of experiments on the simulation that use clips to do measurements of individual trials under varying conditions
and then run the experiments and report results to the file
See release notes, plus:
- newer CL implementations (such as sbcl) need to be told how to advice functions if you want to use trigger based clips. It might be more portable to use callbacks in a variable, though.
I recalled the package when I had an aligned need (separate experiment definition from main code), and I am not aware of modern alternative.
Also, the software is no longer available on the original location - actually, the hardest part was to find the original source.
- asdf system definition (clip-1994)
- there is a reader of CLASP format now in ./new-code/frame-loader.lisp (asdf system clip-1992/loader)
This is the original copyright. Based on that, I assume that publishing this is OK. My new code, if any relevant, is under the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 1994 University of Massachusetts Department of Computer Science Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory Professor Paul Cohen, Director. All rights reserved.
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