Maybe one reason why people love C# so much is that it was influenced by Lisp?
Stranger things have happened.
Month: April 2008
R6RS can complete with Common Lisp?
R6RS is the new language specification for Scheme. The goal is to provide programming features that folks need for programming “in the large”.
Can it compete with Common Lisp? I don’t think so. I like to think of R6RS as an experiment.
I might be right; I might be wrong.
It is never too late
It is never too late to make that change you wish to see
Catch elisp bugs with the compiler
Juan Garcia has a post on reducing elisp bugs using the byte-code compiler.
init style configuration
This article explains how to configure init rather than .emacs style configuration.
Emacs Lisp as a scripting language
Here is a great article about using Elisp as a scripting language.
Haskell Consultants: Well-Typed
Björn Bringert, Duncan Coutts, and Ian Lynagh have started a Haskell consultancy called Well-Typed.
(via CUFP)
Bus Scheme
Bus Scheme is an implementation of Scheme in Ruby.
You can read a little more about it in various posts on the authors blog.
Artist Mode
Artist mode lets you draw lines, squares, rectangles and poly-lines, ellipses, and circles with your mouse and/or keyboard. It is extremely useful when inserting text diagrams or figures in your source comments.
Shlisp
Shlisp is a Lisp without lists!