Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.” However, it is true that people tend to love or hate this venerable programming language. Whichever side ...

So I've started into learning lisp. For my learning project I've decided to try and write a small game by linking to the SDL library through a dll. So far going surprisingly well. The thing I don't ...

Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

The power and simplicity of the Lisp family of languages and the ubiquity and utility of C++ don’t commonly work side by side. But a new implementation of Common Lisp is attempting to change that.

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