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 [...]

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 [...]