Regarding: 'LISP'

12 Sep 2006

Gosling v. Greenspun —

On the relationship between the “Black Hole Theory of Design” and “Greenspun’s tenth Rule of Programming”.

tomayko.com 04:41

26 Apr 2009

When celebrity programmers attack: Guido on tail calls —

“Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen. The ability to tail call to functions that are not statically known is the foundation that makes many combinators useful. This is a style of programming where functions are composed in order to create a pipeline for values to flow through. Without tail call elimination, every stage in the pipeline would leak stack space and the whole approach becomes unusably unreliable.”

flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com 18:03

23 Jul 2008

Building Load Resilient Web Servers —

Great look at varnish and concerns around putting a front-end reverse proxy cache in place.

netzhansa.blogspot.com 20:07

03 Apr 2008

The Rec.humor.funny Ban —

“John McCarthy, better known to many as the originator of the LISP computer language, called me up to say he would be leading the fight at Stanford to reverse the ban.” – Could the man possibly be any more credentialed amongst hackers?

netfunny.com 13:55

15 Mar 2008

The Common Lisp Directory finally crashed after 823 days —

“So the CLD lisp process uptime experiment is now over and I will move the CLD to a better place than a simple server in my basement.”

groups.google.com 21:55

01 Feb 2008

How I lost my faith (in lisp) - comp.lang.lisp —

“Between 1988 and 1991 I worked on the research program that led to the Mars Pathfinder rover […] All three of [the prototypes] were programmed not in Lisp, but in little mini-languages whose compilers were written in Lisp.”

groups.google.com 04:59

11 Oct 2007

Programming - You're Doing It Completely Wrong —

I know! Seriously.

xach.com 21:27

28 Sep 2007

Paul Graham Facts —

“Paul Graham can divide by zero — and the answer is ‘Paul Graham’” … “Paul Graham invented Al Gore” … “Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.”

news.ycombinator.com 09:13

15 Apr 2007

The Truth About Lisp —

“Paul Graham originally wrote reddit, in lisp, on the back of a napkin while he was waiting for a coffee. it was so powerful that it had to be rewritten in python just so that ordinary computers could understand it.”

secretgeek.net 18:33

15 Feb 2007

Lisp [xkcd.com] —

xkcd.com 18:47

02 Jan 2007

Where were you on Saturday, November 9, 2002? —

Crazy.

weblog.raganwald.com 09:37

26 Dec 2006

Programmer Hierarchy —

Ranks programmers by who they consider themselves superior to. Comedy.

hermann-uwe.de 05:44

16 Apr 2006

Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp —

So I’m considering automating my del.icio.us to just automatically add links with “statistically infrequent” words as tags to all Steve Yegge’s posts…

steve-yegge.blogspot.com 14:26