Archive for the ‘Lisp’ Category
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was ...
Posted in Education, Lisp | 36 Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Kenny Tilton just wrote a great article that I think cuts through a lot of the clutter that gets spoken about Lisp. Among the great quotes in the article, he says:
"The first reason you should be using Lisp is a non-reason, an answer to an objection, a negation, a ...
Posted in Lisp | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
On this Valentine's Day, give the gift people really want - complex key chords!
In other news, I've got fans!
Well, at least one anyway. A lot of the feedback I've received on this site so far has been from experienced Lispers who appreciate my enthusiasm and contributions for new users. ...
Posted in Lisp, Programming | 28 Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Following up on my transcript/review of the UCW "Hello World" screencast, here is my review of Marco Barringer's SLIME movie. (Description, 150MB .mov, Torrent, watch online). This screencast was more difficult to annotate because:
It was almost 3x as long (55 min vs. 20)
It covered more topics (Linux, Emacs, ...
Posted in Lisp | 16 Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I think one of the things that made Ruby on Rails so popular was the screencasts where you could write a blog site in 20 minutes, integrate with Flickr in 5 minutes, or setup database migrations in 20 minutes. It's hard to overstate how mindblowing those were in 2005 ...
Posted in Lisp | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
As part of my year's learning goals, I've started reading Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I've gotten through the first few chapters (introductions to Lisp and a small sample program), and so far it's a great book. Now, since I'm a cover-to-cover kind of guy, I ...
Posted in Lisp | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
I'm up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called:
Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper
Thanks to a wonderful naming idea from 50 years ago, we have ...
Posted in Fun, Lisp | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I'm overwhelmed at the response to my recent article about Lisp: The Golden Age Isn’t Coming Back, Let’s Welcome a Bright Future! It clearly shows my blogging virginity that I'm excited about 4,000 page views, but that doesn't make me any less excited! Not only that, there ...
Posted in Lisp | 5 Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
I am a fairly new member of the Lisp community, so new that most people have never heard of me. I'm one of the young programmers that have read the excellent writing from Paul Graham, Raganwald, and Steve Yegge and decided to try Lisp out for myself. I've had ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
(note: inspired by this post at SecretGeek)
(note #2: SecretGeek found this fantastic post by the greatly missed Kathy Sierra)
Anyone who spends 5 minutes reading technology news sites knows that there is FAR too much for any one person to learn (there's almost too much for one person to be aware ...
Posted in Education, Lisp | 4 Comments »
