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 ...

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 ...

Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

Overview Built for systems programming, C remains deeply embedded in operating systems, networking and performance-critical ...

Having recently recommended Dan Weinreb’s blog, I dropped by to see what he might have added. Besides the distress of discovering I called somebody “middle-aged” who’s only a year older than I am, I ...

Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in use today, but it has evolved in multiple directions over its more than 60-year history. Two of the more prominent descendants, Common Lisp and ...