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Early LISP history 1956--1959 | Simon Dobson
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Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, It Is Lots
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| | Lisp is an ambiguous category. But Common Lisp isn't, right? It's a restricted self-sufficient language, after all.
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Programming language notes
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| | [AI summary] The author explores the subjective nature of choosing programming languages, reviewing modern options like Zig and Vala alongside classics such as Ada and Fortran, while analyzing their distinct roles in software development.
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A Road to Common Lisp / Steve Losh
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| | [AI summary] The text is a comprehensive guide to Common Lisp, covering its structure, libraries, and ecosystem. It explains the different layers of project organization, including files, packages, systems, and projects, and highlights popular libraries for various tasks such as utilities, threading, foreign function interfaces, regular expressions, HTTP clients, and more. The guide also discusses tools like Quicklisp and ASDF for managing dependencies and projects, and touches on the stability and community of the language. It concludes by emphasizing the depth of Common Lisp and the importance of careful study for mastering it.
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Clojure Start Time in 2019 - Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
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| [AI summary] The author benchmarks various ways to run Clojure in 2019, comparing traditional JVM launchers like Leiningen with faster alternatives such as Babashka, Joker, and GraalVM-compiled native binaries against a basic C program.