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...

The Emerging Languages Camp looks interesting, even if ole' astroturfer Tim Oh Really is sponsoring it. My big hope is that Slava will ...

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...

Welcome to the Axis of Eval, my new blog about programming (languages). With a lisp.