Nov 2, 2024 · Lisp has reader macros which allow you to reprogram its lexer. Lisp macros allow you to program the translation from the visible structure to the parse tree.

Nov 17, 2024 · The issue with Python and most other non-LISP family programming languages is that they don't allow you to easily treat programs as data. Things that are ...

5 days ago · The problem here is that Emacs is the Elisp interpreter. ... Common Lisp for example you have a currently running lisp instance that you are modifying.

Nov 3, 2024 · If you like C and Lisp (no Smalltalk experience?) did you ever have occasion to try Objective-C?

Nov 4, 2024 · Specifically, `==` is a binary operator that that compares an expression before and after and returns a boolean. In this case, A==B==C is a trinary comparison ...

Nov 19, 2024 · Second one runs the interpreter with the script file and against the locally downloaded dependencies. I.e. the local env dirs in Node.js are not a ...

Nov 4, 2024 · John McCarthy was a student of Church's at Princeton, so when McCarthy invented Lisp in 1958, he adopted the lambda notation. There were no Greek letters on the ...

8 hours ago · In Common Lisp, there is a function called ed, support for which is implementation-defined. If support is available, it is supposed to bring up an editor of ...

Nov 10, 2024 · An allocator implementation holds state and implements alloc, free and resize for its specific internal mechanisms, and then pointers to all these things are ...

Nov 5, 2024 · It is stack-based (which might delight Forth fans), but it excels at drawing and diagrams. Ghostscript is a free PostScript interpreter: https://www.ghostscript ...