Review of “ANSI Common Lisp”

Why Lisp?
A few months ago, I decided that this summer would be the summer I learn Common Lisp. There are two bloggers who are at fault for this decision: Steve Yegge and Slava Akhmechet . Linked are the pertinent articles, both proposing and explaining the idea of data storage as a Lisp program.
The idea is [...]

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This post was written by Jake on July 14, 2008 Comments (10)

Graham and Feynman Meet in the Middle

I’m working through ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham right now (book review on Monday), and I found this little chestnut:
Experienced Lisp programmers work bottom-up as well as top-down. While they’re writing their program down towards the language, they also build the language up toward their program.This way, language and program meet sooner, and more [...]

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This post was written by Jake on July 11, 2008 Comments (0)