> The goal of the Make-A-Lisp project is to make it easy to write your own Lisp interpreter without sacrificing those many "Aha!" moments that come from ...

Netscape and Sun worked together to bring Java to the browser, leading to infamous applets that would take forever to load and have terrible UX.

Jul 1, 2015 · Lisp creates a culture around metaprogramming that fundamentally changes how you approach programming forever after. You stop writing programs.

Nov 22, 2024 · Looking back it was the VBScript/JScript functionality that caused me the most problems. ... LISP interpreter (Emacs is an example for both ...

While we're on the subject, why is JavaScript the only language available for the browser? I can run tons of languages from the command line since they all ...

Jan 3, 2020 · Maybe JScript (Microsoft's ... And pretty much there's a Lisp dialect and compiler/transpiler/interpreter for every platform today.

JavaScript isn't really important for non-web development. I used to program video games for hand held consoles and JavaScript was the last thing on my mind ...

Nov 24, 2022 · Original Lisp was invisioned as a way to not have to write assembly. Note: That's avoid having to write os, interpreter, compiler, shell, etc ...

May 2, 2017 · C++ is an extremely challenging language to write a wrapper generator for. I did a C++ to Common Lisp generator about a decade ago for my GSoC project.

Mar 24, 2012 · Lisp has the most awesome metaprogramming built in and I had a brief heady love affair with it until it's lack of good type safety brought ...