September 19, 2006 @ 18:03 Filed under General , workfriendly , programming , lisp , scheme I've been battling again with Scheme recently. Comment?
Scheme has always had a special place in the Dr. Dobb's annals. Comment?
Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released 
Watson Ladd writes, "The new version of the official Scheme standard has been released as a draft ." From the draft: "[This] report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Comment?
Five Programming Languages You Really SHOULD Learn Right Now
September 16, 2006 at 2:04 pm Filed under Programming eweek.com's article on ten programming languages you should learn right now is the most ill-informed pieces I've read in a while. Comment?
Corman Lisp 3.0 has been released . It is a Common Lisp implementation and development system for Microsoft Windows. Comment?
Joel Spolsky just posted an interesting article on Language Wars . I tend to agree with his conclusion: "...the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms that are all equally likely to make you ... Comment?
Steve Yegge has a post that I just stumbled across on why Lisp isn't an acceptable Lisp . Comment?
Advantages of Functional Programming
With functional programming seemingly getting more interest recently I am remind of, Can Your Programming Language Do This? and Functional programming in the Java language . Comment?
Recently I read the second public draft of a paper on the history of the Haskell programming language . Comment?
Closures for Java or money back
Joel Spolsky in Can Your Programming Language Do This? : Java required you to create a whole object with a single method called a functor if you wanted to treat a function like a first class object. Comment?
Decomposing lambda - the Kernel language
The Kernel Programming Language , by John N. Shutt: Kernel is a conservative, Scheme-like dialect of Lisp in which everything is a first-class object. Comment?
Random Bits and Pieces: ICFPC 2006 UM implementation in 100 Lines of...
Random Bits and Pieces: ICFPC 2006 UM implementation in 100 Lines of Common Lisp I've had lots of fun playing with the UM virtual machine described in the last ICFP contest, and found this page by Michael Weber ... Comment?
Common Lisp Document Repository Announced
Pascal Costanza has announced the Common Lisp Document Repository . It is "a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. Comment?
I recently ran across the RLisp library for embedding Lisp in Ruby. I think it's a neat little project, if only for academic reasons. Comment?
Python Package Index: Cheetah 2.0rc7
Cheetah is a template engine and code generation tool."/> Cheetah 2.0rc7 Cheetah is a template engine and code generation tool. Comment?
David Chisnall's recent article Debunking the Myth of High-level Languages , purports to show how programming in a low-level language can make the compiler's job harder. Comment?
Perl in Lisp 0.1 has been released . It is a Common Lisp interface to the Perl 5 API. Comment?
GNU CLISP 2.39 has been released . It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation. Comment?
LISP is, of course, the Hattori Hanzo sword of programming languages. PDF ebook - Practical Common Lisp : An awesome book that sells for $50. Buy it if you can afford it but author has released the soft copy ... Comment?
When it comes to academic approaches to teaching Computer Science, there are three major schools of thought. Comment?
Not to start an argument, but to vet a concen
The disfavorable reputation that seems to have been -- in yay-much of conventional discourse -- attached to Common Lisp, it is not deserved by Common Lisp. Comment?
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