Some über-obvious notes: Lisp literals (booleans, numbers, strings, ...) are sometimes called self-evaluating or self-quoting objects. Th...

Three areas that seem to be exploding are new programming languages, new databases, and new content-centric networking protocols. But I thin...

I would still appreciate pointers as to how to implement this ;-) Anyone can implement Scheme, but only half a dozen people have implemented...

Taylor Campbell's blag contains many insightful posts related to programming languages, Scheme in particular. For example, he clears up...

This post attempts to explain how Lisp condition systems surpass ordinary exception handling . Condition systems don't unwind the stac...

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...