December 2001 (rev. May 2002)
(This article came about in response to some questions on
the LL1 mailing list. It is now
incorporated in Revenge of the Nerds.)
When McCarthy designed Lisp in the late 1...
Similar Articles (10 found)
🔍 85.6% similar
May 2002
"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a
lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
- Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec
|
|
In ...
🔍 82.6% similar
May 2001
(I wrote this article to help myself understand exactly
what McCarthy discovered. You don't need to know this stuff
to program in Lisp, but i...
🔍 75.4% similar
| |
1993
(This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp.)
It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional
elements of a progr...
🔍 72.1% similar
May 2001
(This article was written as a kind of business plan for a
new language.
So it is missing (because it takes for granted) the most important
f...
🔍 69.3% similar
May 2002
"The quantity of meaning compressed into a small space by
algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates
the reasonings we are acc...
🔍 68.6% similar
Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming
languages: to describe each in terms of the problem it
fixes. The surprising thing ...
🔍 66.6% similar
May 2001
(These are some notes I made
for a panel discussion on programming language design
at MIT on May 10, 2001.)
1. Programming Languages Are for ...
🔍 65.9% similar
May 2003
If Lisp is so great, why don't more people use it? I was
asked this question by a student in the audience at a
talk I gave recently. Not for ...
🔍 64.9% similar
August 2021
When people say that in their experience all programming languages
are basically equivalent, they're making a statement not about
language...
🔍 64.2% similar
There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but
some of the smartest programmers I know are some of the least excited abou...