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The software industry is permeated with metaphors borrowed from architecture and construction. We even call ourselves architects and engineers, have project plans and deliverables, argue over ...

Dan Weinreb was one of the founders of Symbolics, as well as of object-oriented DBMS pioneer Object Design (now absorbed into Progress Software). He’s working again in LISP development, at a very ...

As a programming language, Lisp has been around longer than any other active language except for Fortran. To anyone who regularly uses it, it’s easy to see why: the language allows for new syntax and ...

On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status ...