Published on: 2025-06-05 05:19:28
Okay, so I don’t actually know LISP, so this is gonna be a tough one. If I misunderstand something, please help me understand it. But from what I know, one of the big ideas of LISP is that code is data, and data is code. I mean, that’s kind of generally true, but in LISP it’s both culturally and syntactically emphasized. For example, let’s take this piece of code in LISP: ( + 2 2 ) This gives us 4 . But let’s put a quote before it: '( + 2 2 ) Suddenly, the result is… (+ 2 2) . Uh, what do
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Lisping at JPL Copyright (c) 2002 by Ron Garret (f.k.a. Erann Gat), all rights reserved. This is the story of the rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab as told from my personal (and highly biased) point of view. I am not writing in my official capacity as an employee of JPL, nor am I in any way representing the official position of JPL. (This will become rather obvious shortly.) 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years JPL at the time was in the early planning stages for a Mars rover mission
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Novel Operating Systems Catalog Catalogue of novel operating systems Somewhere after the fall in popularity of note-taking apps, perhaps recognizing that just note-taking is not enough and the deafening hype of LLMs, there was a sweet period of lull when a lot of people started boldly building new operating systems. This is a catalogue of such operating systems that I have come across. In the past, before the commercialization of computers, we had a plethora of operating systems with unique la
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sectorlisp sectorlisp is a 512-byte implementation of LISP that's able to bootstrap John McCarthy's meta-circular evaluator on bare metal. Overview LISP has been described as the Maxwell's equations of software. Yet there's been very little focus to date on reducing these equations to their simplest possible form. Even the original LISP paper from the 1960's defines LISP with nonessential elements, e.g. LABEL . This project aims to solve that by doing three things: We provide a LISP impleme
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This group is not part of the GNU Project. This is a lisp implementation. Now it is just an interpreter, but I will add some compilation later. I aim for Common Lisp conformance, but I'm not religious about it. To clone the repository, run this command: git clone https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/alisp.git You can find the released tarballs down on this page, but I recommend running from the latest commit, since new features and bugfixes happen often. To get the gist of this proje
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Exploring LispE: A Distinctive Take on Lisp Through Pattern Matching and Logic LispE, a modern Lisp dialect developed by Naver, introduces innovative constructs— defpat , defmacro , and defpred —that set it apart from traditional Lisp implementations like Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure. While Lisp dialects share a heritage of flexibility and macro systems, LispE extends this with advanced pattern matching, enhanced macro capabilities, and logic programming elements. This blog entry examines t
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There’s been a lot of buzz about GUI stuff lately, which made me briefly reflect on the state of the art and share something I’ve been working on as of late. What's this? Read on, it's a bit of a story... It seems folks really feel the pain of their ever-expanding tech stacks, multiplied by an explosion of display form factors and related tech such as accessibility. People are coming up with new ways of the GUI (PanGui, Dear ImGui, etc.), which is very exciting and encouraging in itself. Are w
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While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing (280th), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well. One of things that piqued my interest during the contest was a post on the AI Challenge forums about a bot written using genetic programming. Genetic programming (GP) and genetic algorithms have always held my interest but seeing the bot in action really motivated me to dive into the matter. Genetic prog
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Autology A hot take on Lisp metaprogramming, Autology is a Lisp with access to its own interpreter. What is it? Autology is a functional interpreted Lisp language, written in Clojure. The Autology interpreter function is defined as a data structure which is available to the Autology program, it is bound to the variable *i* . Whenever an expression needs to be evaluated, Autology will retrieve the current value of *i* from the current lexically scoped execution environment and use it to eval
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2025-03-11 18:34:41 Displayed 15269 times Why I stopped everything and started writing C again I've been a good student for 5 years at a French computer school. I've been a good freelance developer for 20 years. I've used Ruby on Rails exclusively however never writing my own code always for clients. One day I learned Common Lisp. It was supposed to be a short mission I thought I could learn Common Lisp in ten days and hack a quick server management protocol. I ended up writing throw-away Co
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Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long, rich and oftentimes confusing tradition. Unware of it at the time, in 1960 John McCarthy published a paper that over the next 64 years would spawn a thousand dialects and a number of very good ideas. The fragmentation of the Lisp family from an outside perspective can seem really confusing to newcomers, like a software Tower of Babel. In fact the variety of Lisp is in my opinion one of it's best qualities. It almost guarantees that as long
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