Being Popular So whether or not a language has to be good to be popular, I think a language has to be popular to be good. One thing hackers like is brevity. Hackers are lazy, ... The individual tokens should be short as well. "lambda"とか…

Beating the Averages And the reason everyone doesn't use it is that programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well, and nothing changes slower.

Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp One of the aims of this book is to explain not just the Lisp language, but the new approach to programming that Lisp makes possible. You can write prototypes so quickly in Lisp that you can go through several …

一つづつ読んでくことにした。 Programming Bottom-Up ・Bottom-Up。 However, Lisp gives you much broader powers in this department, and augmenting the language plays a proportionately larger role in Lisp style-- so much so that Lisp is not ju…