Roly Perera , who is doing awesome work on continuously executing programs and interactive programming , tweeted that we should take inspir...

As should be obvious to my regular readers, I'm using the Axis of Eval to post raw thoughts. I don't do the work of rigorously th...

One misconception of computing is that plain text is somehow the natural thing for a computer to process. False. It only appears that way...

In a recent comment , John Shutt wrote: I do agree that the success of Lisp depends quite heavily on the fact that it has no syntax dedic...

If you've posted a comment in the past couple days, and it hasn't showed up, please repost it. Thanks. (The Blogger GUI showed me ...

You poor fool! Wait till you see those goddamn parentheses. Recent investigations of xonses  and first-class patterns have driven home...

I have rewritten my interpreter to use xonses throughout. As expected, Lisp code that doesn't use them is unaffected, and continues run...

A good sign: xonses are already making me think previously impossible thoughts. In my Kernel implementation Virtua , every object can pot...

I think I finally had the breakthrough regarding named parameters and conses: Xonses. In short: (open-file "README" :mode ...

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Picasso   "The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem ...

There's now a klisp Google Group for discussion of the klisp implementation of Kernel , and of Kernel in general. Check it out, there ...

J. A. "Biep" Durieux has posted a highly interesting message to Scheme-reports , that should resonate with the "oh my, Schem...

Writing a Kernel-like language in Atomy and grinning from ear to ear. — Alex Suraci (@alexsuraci) September 6, 2011

Call for use cases for Dart package system . Everybody loves to debate package/namespace management systems. But remember that some of our b...

You should take the time to learn fexprs if you answer yes to any of these questions: You like Lisp, and want to learn even more about its ...

Apparently, youse people don't know the R -1 RK by heart yet. Vau is just like lambda, except it doesn't evaluate its arguments, an...

I now have a bit of experience with Kernel -style fexprs (short for fun expressions, not frankenprogramming expressions ), and I must say I...

Quick note: I think in a user interface, objects should have at least three different sizes, or semantic zoom levels : S(mall), M(edium), an...

Rob Simmons has written an amazing new post - What does focusing tell us about language design? - on Call-by-Push-Value , an exciting new p...

I wrote another Kernel -ish interpreter in JavaScript: Virtua . This time, no tail-call optimization or first-class continuations, just plai...