Complaining about parentheses in Lisp is like complaining about the heat in the kitchen—as Jamie Oliver said, the cocktail of hot oil, shar...

Quick, what does #()(3).() do? OK, I think one can get used to it . But " support references to ‘this’ " sounds really doomed. A ...

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

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...

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...