Not quite 20 years ago, I was consulting for Symbolics, working on a Windows front end for PC Macsyma. I was writing Windows code in C, and working closely with a Symbolics LISP programmer named Frank ...

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 ...

Paul Graham once wrote an essay about the power of programming languages. Programming languages vary in abstraction, with the most abstract languages generally allowing programmers to express more ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) Common Lisp and Emacs have been two niche open source software projects with a loyal group of developers and users. Common Lisp is a programming language that belongs to the Lisp ...

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