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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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Note that this does not make Lisp “mainstream” for others, but it does make Lisp “mainstream” for yourself, and I think anybody who wants to make a change needs to start with himself. it is also very…
Getting Started on OSX
Here's what I did, though perhaps a better order of steps exists: * Downloaded Emacs for OSX * Downloaded ClozureCL from the Mac App Store. * Downloaded Quicklisp * Ran ClozureCL, then "…
The Eric Naggum archive
I was too young to participate in these discussions when they happened, but it is particularly enlightening (IMHO) to comb through the "Erich Naggum archive". Sure, there is some of what we…
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We believe COMMON LISP suffers from being designed by implementors with beliefs in what is possible, rather than by users with beliefs in what is probable. /content/files/Files/clcrit.pdf…
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There was a belief that Lisp is the correct language for systems programming. This is a religious belief, especially in light of the fact that only a few operating systems, for example, have been writ…
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The book and class leave it at that and proceed onto the limits of computability, which is the real point of the material. But there’s a natural question that isn’t presented in the book and which I n…
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The “debate” had an interlude, in which Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happ…