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Lisp

Only Magic to Those with Inadequate Understanding

A quote from Raganwald: “The correct response is not calling arbitrary features ‘magic’. It’s programming. That’s all.”

A quick and dirty language...

For quick and dirty programs... Paul Graham has released an early version of Arc, his ongoing project to develop a Lisp dialect suiting a minimalist taste in programming style. Never one to shirk…

The Landscape of Computing

People think that it is strange that someone like me who knows so much about programming languages chooses to program in PHP so frequently. They're probably right, and I appreciate where…

The Missing Literary Traditions of Programming

Learning how to forget the properties of programming languages themselves, and think about the context of what is actually written in these languages.

A True Intellectual

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. - John McCarthy For some reason, I found…