Tag Archives: Lisp

Getting Car Sick With Lisp

Just a quickie today. Over at the Lisp subredit, breck says that he used to program in Lisp but got car sick. It’s a pretty weak pun but the commenters took up the challenge and kept the ball rolling. DrownNotably … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Lisp Syntax Boring

Wait. What? Is Lisp syntax boring? My immediate response is, “Of course it is.” That’s its strength. Lisp doesn’t have much syntax so unlike other languages you can immediately start using the language without having to worry about learning a … Continue reading

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Why Isn’t Lisp Used More In Production Redux

I just came across an excellent Medium article by Kenichi Sasagawa that addresses the question of Why Isn’t Lisp Used More In Production that I wrote about the other day. My post took the somewhat cynical view that Lisp lost … Continue reading

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Why Isn’t Lisp Used More In Production

nderstand2grow, over at the Lisp subreddit extols the benefits of the Lisp languages and wonders why it isn’t more widely used in production. It’s a question that all Lispers eventually ask themselves. Despite what people who don’t know Lisp tell … Continue reading

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Rolling Your Own Syntax

Over at Abstract Heresies, Joe Marshall has a great post on one of the reasons Lisp is such a great family of Languages. I say “family” because there isn’t a single Lisp language. These days, the four main Lisps are … Continue reading

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Emacs For Common Lisp

Susam has a very nice Githup repository that contains an Emacs configuration for working with Common Lisp. The nice thing is that the README contains a complete explanation of what the configuration is doing and has a line-by-line exegesis of … Continue reading

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Using Lisp

Anurag Mendhekar has an interesting post about why he uses Lisp and thinks you should too. He uses several different Lisps—Scheme, Common Lisp, and Racket—but boils down their essence to, “An s-expression based, dynamically typed, mostly functional, call-by-value λ-calculus-based language.” … Continue reading

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Lisp: Advantages and Myths

Lately, I do almost all my programming in Lisp. That might be Scheme, Emacs Lisp, or Common Lisp. I’ve written many times on why I prefer Lisp as a development environment. I like the syntax, and most importantly that it … Continue reading

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The Lisp Community

Here’s a charming post on the Lisp community. I like it for a couple of reasons. The first is that Owmagow wasn’t afraid to dig in and figure things out even though he realized there were already libraries available to … Continue reading

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Why Learn Scheme

Back when I was learning Scheme, my go to implementation was DrScheme. It had great libraries, an excellent IDE, ran on Windows, Macs, and Linux, and produced good standalone code. Eventually it drifted away from the Scheme specification and was … Continue reading

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