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“It’s no secret that I’ve been interested in Lisp for quite a while. Lately, that has meant Clojure. Clojure is a new Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM. That means it has the power of Lisp (macros, source...

“I'd appreciate the opinion of who is still here (even lurkers) on this post. What do you think about the history of Arc so far? What do you see in its future? 4 points by pg 39 minutes ago link source...

“I was asked in a thread on comp.lang.lisp to elaborate on why I chose Lisp to write poker room software, whether I had to convince my backers, etc. Poker room software, if you are wondering, is the client that you source...

fo.py, mighty Forth Lisp SmallTalk mix in Python Blending Forth, Lisp and SmallTalk produced first results. I mixed late binding, reflection, concatenation and dynamics in a small python file. 17 lines of VM. 18 lines of compiler.

“ I am becoming increasingly frustrated by Common Lisp's age. On the one hand, history makes it what it is: Mature, well-documented, thoroughly understood and practical. On the other, it fails to keep up with current system designs, lacking convenient source...

“I think the answer is pretty easy. In real life, practicality usually trumps everything else. Most programmers aren't paid to revolutionize the world of computer science. Most programmers are code monkeys, or to put it more nicely, they're craftsmen who source...

“I've been meaning to try it out for some time. Download and install according to the documentation. I use SBCL-1.0.18. bzexe/gzexe helps getting down the binary size (stumpwm is an executable SBCL image dump). If you, like me, use Ubuntu, source...

“This is exactly the psychology that goes through the head of everybody who hears about Lisp and decides to check it out. Summary: Lisp is awesome, except for the multitude of trivially annoying things that make it much less so, source...

“In 2001, Paul Graham announced that he was working on a new dialect of Lisp named "Arc." Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Y Combinator source...

“Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its public access—is something more...

“ ABLE is an Open Source Common Lisp editor written by Phil Armitage. It provides symbol completion, syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, call-tips, Hyperspec lookup and parenthesis matching. It's developed using CLISP and SBCL on Linux and Windows. Source and binary source...

Three features of Common Lisp you will miss when you leave Lisp.

“This is marginally Lisp related, in that it has to do with recent tweaks to the Apache portion of our UCW setup. We have all our static content in a directory /paragent/nexus/html. Based on recommendations from YSlow, I added the source...