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Nice article by Kent Pitman, mostly about his experiences with the Common Lisp standardization process: Common Lisp, the Untold Story .

A short article about an apparently successful digital livescan fingerprinting system .

Nice essay about John McCarthy .

See Beware the Purists, Lest They Kill Your Innovation . Much of what is stated there also strongly applies to programming and programming l...

Here is a worthwhile read: The Perils of Partially Powered Languages . It's from a Haskell perspective, but should apply to other non-un...

See here . To cite: "El Emam and his colleagues repeated some of those experiments using bivariate analysis so that they could alloc...

Wow. This is how complicated it gets to have he functionality of special variables in a language that really doesn't want them (and it...

The Lisp historical archive web site just got reorganized . I have made a quick check of the contents, and found out that Howard I. Cannon...

Now is the time to switch programming languages: Oracle is the borg .

Another interesting conference is coming up: The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development will be held in Porto de ...

The International Lisp Conference (ILC'10) is being held again, sooner than expected: It will be held in October 2010 in Reno, Nevada. ...

I only now realized that besides the interesting talks and presentations to be given at this year's European Lisp Symposium, there will ...

The third European Lisp Symposium is less than a month away. I have received the following call for participation to redistribute, which I p...

I am very excited that I can finally annouce a public release of filtered functions , an extension of generic functions that Charlotte Herze...

On May 27-29, there will be the 2nd European Lisp Symposium taking place in Milan, Italy. The program looks very exciting, and I will defin...

It has been suggested that certain programming language constructs, in particular the GO TO, lend themselves to obscure coding practices. So...

In the last couple of years, we have seen a growing interest in the Lisp programming language and its various dialects, including classic on...

There will be another instance of the European Lisp Symposium this year: in Milan, Italy, from May 27-29, 2009. It's very good that thi...

...celebrating the 50th birthday of Lisp at OOPSLA 2008 Monday, October 20, 2008 Nashville, Tennessee, USA co-located with OOPSLA 2008 parti...

Programming languages provide more or less narrow models on how solutions should be represented and thought about, and enforce such models i...