Archive for 19th August 2007

Preparing to LISP

19 August 2007, 5:06 pm

Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
— Philip Greenspun

Including Common Lisp.
— Robert Morris

I’ve been working on a top-secret, ultra-hush-hush project for my company for several years now — so secret that I can say nothing else about it at this point, not even the working name, so don’t ask. :-) I was discussing it with a security-cleared associate last week, and mentioned a feature that (so far as I know) exists only in the LISP programming language. He had never used the language, so I pointed him at a few ‘net resources on it (including Paul Graham’s Lisp pages) to get him started with it. Continue reading ‘Preparing to LISP’ »

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