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I recently compiled a list of Perlis Languages that were meant to illustrate varying paradigms not typically found in mainstream programming languages. Those languages were meant to stretch your mind and are not necessarily representative of the state of the art in language design and implementation. In this post I…
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. – Alan Perlis
this post was discussed on various posts and podcasts including: Ruby5 , HackerNews , and Ruby Inside . BTW, this is now 29 27 25 lines.
caveat: tthis is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. If you find this post interesting then you might like my yearly best-of posts .
Lately I’ve been reading old computing papers, articles, journals, magazines, and memos and tweeting about them as I work my way through. The most recent exploration was of an Apple internal memo about the history of Apple’s involvement with Pascal. The memo is cursory, but it does provide an interesting snapshot of…
Earlier today Rich Hickey let the cat out of the bag that I’m joining the Clojure Core development team.
The German school of Lisp is described by Kazimir Majorinc as a Spartan movement 1 in Lisp implementation. But let me be clear, the Lisps in question are not toys like the one’s littering the Lisp landscape (including my own ). Likewise, these Lisps are not libraries nor are they full-blown development ecosystems.
this is the first entry in an n-part series explaining the techniques and design principles of ClojureScript . translations: [ 日本語 ]
Lisp REPLs are on the collective lips of the WWW lately and so I thought I’d add my little bit of chatter to the mix as well. 1
It’s has been an absolute pleasure 2 working with Chouser 3 and our army of Manning 4 editors and proofreaders. I would also like to thank Christophe Grand for his excellent 5 technical review. Additionally, I would like to thank Steve Yegge for writing the foreword and providing insightful feedback 6 that I believe…
Dr. Martin Odersky, the lead designer/developer of the Scala Programming Language , Generic Java, and Pizza requires no introduction, but the motivation for this micro-interview does. That is, there is an unfortunate view in some circles that sees the existence of Scala and Clojure as somehow being at odds. In…
John McCarthy was a genius of the highest order. Much is known about his contribution to Lisp as its inventor, but he was also the mind behind much of early AI research, the progenitor of much of computer chess, and the initiator of time-sharing. As a Lisp advocate I have many thanks due to John McCarthy and it…
After a seemingly endless journey , the publication of Functional JavaScript is complete and books have found their way into peoples’ homes. Below is a list of useful links related to the book:
Years ago I planned to give a talk centered around exploring the Clojure source history to find interesting buried artifacts. In service to that goal I walked every commit in the repository to see what I could find. There were indeed interesting discoveries, but eventually my passion for giving the talk 1 dissipated…
This post was discussed thoroughly on Hacker News . Even Mr. Graham was kind enough to comment – though not in the affirmative. There was moderate discussion on Reddit as well.
Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language. Based on the results of Chas Emerick’s great State of Clojure - Summer 2010 survey , 17% of surveyed Clojure users come from a Ruby background. Based on observed trends, I expect that percentage to…