Yesterday, "Lisp was dead". Today, Lispers are asked to "reproduce their pre-AI Winter achievements" and there's ta...

I just saw this use of HTML lists and tables for syntax , and I liked it. I think that HTML is the future of all UIs, thus also of PLs. The ...

Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I just discovered the original 1992 Dylan manual: Dylan (TM) -- An object-oriented dynamic language . Back th...

My hobby Lisp->JS compiler, EdgeLisp (formerly known as CyberLisp ) just passed a major milestone: using multiple dispatch, a numeric to...

An amazing look back at Java's early days , by Chuck McManis on HN: Tcl was the 'language to beat' amongst the new language prod...

Raoul Duke : As soon as somebody brings in a reference to xah lee, somebody else has to call somebody a Nazi, and then somebody else has to ...

Schemers use the word "syntax" to mean at least two (and maybe even three) different things: in DEFINE-SYNTAX and LET-SYNTAX, synt...

On the occasion of Gosling joining Google, it's Java diss time again. But most Java criticism doesn't take its raison d'être int...

Given that software is so utterly confusing, it's often helpful to bring in metaphors from other areas, Christianity in this case: The H...

Nothing gets LtU's juices flowing like a good old OOP discussion. It starts with a harmless "OO is anti-modular? Really?" a...

Kent Pitman : I certainly sat in lots of Scheme design meetings where I pushed for obvious things like branch cuts, error handling, and othe...

My critically acclaimed Understanding Hygiene (part 1) contains the absolute baseline necessary for understanding hygienic macros. This pos...

A comment by Sean McDirmid on LtU is spinning off into a nice PL design discussion: We should only critique designs like we critique art, I...

Chris Double is again exploring ATS , a language with a very advanced type system: ATS did save me from some errors in my larger program tha...

This is CPython, the standard Python implementation, compiled from C to JavaScript using Emscripten, running in your browser (without any p...

Harrison Ainsworth's Wittgenstein for programmers is an awesome project. And very quotable: Where a proposition describes the world, a ...

Programs really aren't plain text. Or they shouldn't be. But until now there was no way out. OSes come with Ed, and Ed is the stand...

Vladimir Sedach just tweeted something dear to my heart: Arguing that the #GPL is restricting your freedom is exactly the same as arguing t...

I remember reading an article about RMS some time ago, where he says that a module system/namespace management for Emacs Lisp is not somethi...

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I've blogged about this before, but I think it's worth stressing again: Programming languages should not be viewed as media , but a...

It's hard to keep source code "beautiful". I think the only way it can work is to be dedicated like Zen monks cleaning their m...

Ian Lance Taylor, the author of the gold linker and the GCC version of the Go language, has written a nice mini-series on how to unwind the ...