Exploring Lisp

Malach son of Marach ... dwelt in Hithlum for fourteen years; and he learned the Elven-tongue

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, 1977.

A little website about Lisp stuff. That's Common Lisp.

Here, I keep a Blog and some Links to projects and other Lisp material.

Why Lisp?

There are all kind of arguments for why Lisp is a great language to use. Many of these go over my head, as I'm more of a hobbyist and use Lisp "like any other language". It offers a nice mix of procedural, functional, and object-oriented features. Macros? Yes, in small doses. Live images? Not so much. Reader macros? ?

I also like that the language does not change - it's not dead, implementations and libraries are updated continuously, but there are no new language features to keep up with.

If you need some technical arguments, see where Lisp sits between C/Rust/Go and your friend's favourite dynamic language in Table 4 of the paper: Ranking programming languages by energy efficiency.

Contact

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