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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…
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Arguments over syntax aside, there is something to be said for recognizing that a loop that steps only one variable is pretty useless, in any programming language. It is almost always the case that o…
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“Lisp has some real problems.” Yes, it does. unfortunately, you didn’t list any of them. that’s also one of the real problems Lisp has: myths, misconceptions, and prejudice. http://xach.com/naggum/…
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By studying a number of examples, we have come to the conclusion that programs in less expressive languages exhibit repeated occurrences of programming patterns, and that this pattern-oriented style i…
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But then I had a whimsical thought; the sort of thing that seems at once not-impossible and yet such a long shot that one can just relax and enjoy exploring it without feeling under pressure to produc…