Peter Coffee has an interesting article about "="" programming="" languages"=""> (and techniques) that are being used in mainstream applications. Peter mentions LISP, Prolog, genetic programming, and ...

Lisp is one of those interesting computer languages that you either love or hate. But it has certainly stood the test of time. Of all the ancient languages that are still in practical use, only ...

So I've recently started learning Lisp for a class in AI. I'm comfortable coding in plenty of languages, but Lisp feels so irritating to write/read. I'm having a really hard time getting used to the ...

Doing anything much with Emacs customization used to require learning Lisp, but this hasn't been true for perhaps a decade. One of the problems with long-lived projects is that they acquire ...

No, I use vi over Emacs because learning Lisp never struck me as a reasonable requirement for a text editor to impose on its' users. How does editing text with Emacs require learning Lisp? I'll admit ...