The Future of Lisp

Another rescued Quora answer to the question : What is the future of the LISP programming language? I’m writing this answer as an unabashed Clojure fanboi. The second of these advantages is syntax for data-structures. (defn f [x y] (the int (+ x y))) That’s it. You’ve typed the expression (+ x y) as having …

Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp

Interesting to go back to Stevey’s Blog Rant from 2006. Quite perceptive … the ascendent Lisps today, at least the ones that have caught my attention, are Clojure and Racket. Neither of which really existed at the time he was writing (although Racket’s ancestor, Dr. Scheme did). Both of which do, indeed, have offered a …