Using AllegroCL with Emacs
One way is the SLIME way -- similar to any other lisp/scheme implementation, install it, set inferior-lisp-program, add (slime-setup '(slime-fancy)) to your .emacs, and run M-x slime. Boom! Done.…
Solarized (everywhere!)
The black text on white background always seemed to cause me eye strain. On the other hand, the white-on-black or green-on-black seem too intense (too high-contrast) after a while, and made switching…
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of_course http://xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]…
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Free Software is a protest movement. Open Source is a weapon. I can see a significant constructive element to Free Software, but I can’t see any with Open Source. Linux is not a success to be repea…
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… the programming environment model in Unix is an imitation of the Lisp machine, and the way it is implemented is through processes and inter-process communication instead of function calls. Function…
Lisp Books
This is something I've always pieced together bit-by-bit, and I'm sure a lot of other people have done the same by combining occasional blog posts, reviews on Amazon, perhaps a few mailing lis…
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Common Lisp has a problem in that only mature people use it after they have become disgusted with other languages and their hype. http://xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]…
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I’m not arguing against type theories, not arguing against the usefulness of various forms of type inference, not arguing against reasonable requests, not arguing against the desire to reason about co…
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Professional programmers often find that the program they’re working on now has a great deal in common with some program they wrote in the past. It is this feeling that makes the idea of software reus…
My brief history with computers: Part two
If your idea of editing text is vim and Microsoft word, then boy am I going to have a tough time trying to explain Wordstar to you. And yet, such were the times that (I imagine twenty years from one p…
My brief history with computers: Part one
You see, you use these things to compute ... stuff I first encountered computers in books. Glossy books these were, the kind you would expect to find twenty years ago in the "reference books&quo…
Steve Yegge is always awesome.
I recently came across this excerpt: I demand excellence from my co-workersif there's some valid program out there that you couldn't ever write, then you're not justified in calling yours…