There are so many nice things to be learned from Lisp - and Kernel . Take this: A Lisp REPL reads forms input by the user. But Lisp is nev...

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Reading the interesting Portable and high-level access to the stack with Continuation Marks , I found the following quote about procedure ca...

My current obsessions are delimited continuations (see my intro post ) and first-class macros (fexprs). Here are some nice papers related to...

... but were afraid to ask Brendan Eich . (the whole thread, starting with this post )

[I got bored with the original text of this post. In short: the authors of ClojureScript have taken the pragmatic approach of reusing Clojur...

David Barbour throws down the gauntlet to John Shutt in an already interesting and entertaining ( "about as coherent as a 90 day weath...

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. ( source ; also: Duke's Law )

Subject: Re: Switching tasks and context ∂08-Jul-81 0232 Nowicki at PARC-MAXC Re: Switching tasks and context Date: 6 Jul 1981 10:32 PDT ...

I've never studied cryptography. So when the paper Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem fell in my lap, I was perplexed. Using just t...

Zef Hemel has interviewed me for his weblog, State of Code : Lisp: The Programmable Programming Language . I don't feel qualified to be...

John Shutt now has a blog: Structural insight . John is pushing the envelope of Lisp with his Kernel programming language, a "dialec...

David Barbour is to me one of the most important thinkers on distributed programming languages and systems. He frequently posts on LtU and ...

We can now run Linux , LLVM bitcode , and a lot of other languages in JavaScript. And we can run JavaScript in everything - browsers, serve...

// Note: The following is all standard-conforming C++, this is not a hypothetical language extension. assert( top( o-------o ...

In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position. ...

Some programs are very successful with taking a paradigm to an extreme. Emacs tries to represent every user interface as text. Even video ed...

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more ...

I happen to think that pushing beyond plain text is one of the most important tasks for programmers today, or as Conor McBride put it : The ...

A somewhat arcane aspect of hygienic macro systems is the notion that macro-introduced toplevel identifiers are secret. An example of this i...

Good analysis by Vladimir Sedach: The entire point of programming is automation. The question that immediately comes to mind after you lear...

EdgeLisp is chugging along nicely. I'll soon do a proper release. I just implemented a variant of SRFI 72 , that is a hygienic defmacro...

EdgeLisp now has first-class object files (called FASL, for Fast-Loadable) and a primitive linker : Let's compile a FASL from a piece...