I was just  chatting with Ben Titzer on Twitter  about control flow in his  Virgil language  (which is cool and you should definitely check ...

Faré: What Makes Lisp Great : [U]nlike most other languages, Lisp is not an arbitrary design based on the whims of some author , but it is a...

All true Lisps have a very important feature: you can enter any expression any time . (Subject to some static rules of course. E.g. you can...

Nothing bothers me more than a flawed language feature, for which there's a well known, working solution in another language. Really, I ...

I'm a sucker for articles mentioning "the next Lisp". I just read Mark Tarver's, and I thought I'd jot down some quick...

As I've said before, the great thing about Lisp is it's age. Like a good wine, Lisp has had a long time to age. I think one of the b...

Since the early eighties (beginning with Scheme and T ), most Lisps began to settle around a common core . (This also coincides with the p...

There is beauty in the fact that Lisp expressions are called forms . Form is really fundamental. And so are Lisp expressions. While Lisp ex...

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In Lisps like Common Lisp, code is data. (In CL, code is represented as cons lists, which totally sucks, because you can't attach any me...

Because Clojure ignores Lisp. Put that gun down, and let me explain. Lisp is a process. Progress is measured in decades. Lisp gets lexical s...

Lisp is ugly. Will always be. If you care, you're just not ready yet. One of my big Common-Lisp-Aha!-moments was when I realized that un...