Lisping is a Lisp development environment for touch-screens on iOS. The author describes the lessons learned from developing it.
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Aaaargh! Quora. No! (Should I learn Clojure for Android programming?)
Having contrasted Quora, positively with StackOverflow, I find that Quora is also starting to play the “word-shaping” game by which either an algorithm or a tone-deaf moderator decides to constrain how you are allowed to express your questions 🙁 No idea why they really feel the need to do this. But it basically has the …
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Vi Hart on Making Her Videos
How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make a Video… There’s something about Vi Hart’s recursive video about how she makes her videos which reminds me strongly of the Lispish ideal of having the Lisp interpreter available at write-time, compile-time and run-time.
RIP John McCarthy
John McCarthy has died. Discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
Someone else with the disease. 🙂
How to write an interpreter in one day.
Lisp will be 50 in October.
Tim Burks talks about his language Nu (seems to be kind of Ruby-like behaviour with a Lisplike appearance (lack of syntax?) Good references to Brad Cox‘s Planning the Software Industrial Revolution. Cool. Didn’t know this stuff before.
Sweet Expressions … great idea for making S-Expressions more like other, more readable programming languages without losing their power (such as generality, macros, quasiquoting, homoiconicity, and easily-manipulated program fragments). Hat-tip Folknology
Paul Graham’s Arc Challenge . Examples in Lisp, Smalltalk Seaside, Ruby, Perl and Python (using generators instead of continuations) And an Erlang response.