I really dislike the tiny lisp implementation mentioned in the article. Part of the beauty of a real "lisp in lisp" interpreter is that it is meta-circular -- that is, the interpreter is able to interpret itself. Using…
Yup, very familiar with SBCL. But the truth is, to get SBCL to the point where it's anywhere near the realm of C for performance there's a ton of work that the compiler has to do that GCC simply doesn't. Escape analysis…
Emacs isn't really a follower of the unix philosophy since it's more a hold-over from the world of lisp machines. Emacs also eschews the "everything is a file" philosophy of unix (programs in emacs are just lisp…
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I really dislike the tiny lisp implementation mentioned in the article. Part of the beauty of a real "lisp in lisp" interpreter is that it is meta-circular -- that is, the interpreter is able to interpret itself. Using…
Yup, very familiar with SBCL. But the truth is, to get SBCL to the point where it's anywhere near the realm of C for performance there's a ton of work that the compiler has to do that GCC simply doesn't. Escape analysis…
Emacs isn't really a follower of the unix philosophy since it's more a hold-over from the world of lisp machines. Emacs also eschews the "everything is a file" philosophy of unix (programs in emacs are just lisp…
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