Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...

Not quite 20 years ago, I was consulting for Symbolics, working on a Windows front end for PC Macsyma. I was writing Windows code in C, and working closely with a Symbolics LISP programmer named Frank ...

Contrary to popular belief, LISP does not stand for “lots of irritating spurious parenthesis.” However, it is true that people tend to love or hate this venerable programming language. Whichever side ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

So I've started into learning lisp. For my learning project I've decided to try and write a small game by linking to the SDL library through a dll. So far going surprisingly well. The thing I don't ...

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The power and simplicity of the Lisp family of languages and the ubiquity and utility of C++ don’t commonly work side by side. But a new implementation of Common Lisp is attempting to change that.