Collaborate Disseminate
Ah, Lisp, the archaic language that just keeps on giving. You either love or hate it, but you’ll never stop it. [David Johnson-Davies] is clearly in the love it camp …read more Continue reading A RISC-V LISP Compiler…Written In Lisp
Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has …read more Continue reading Get Your Lisp On With The Dune Shell
Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for …read more Continue reading The ’80s Multi-Processor System That Never Was
In the world of lambda calculus programming languages there are many ways to express the terms, which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, …read more Continue reading Forsp: A Forth & Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
That EPROMs, EEPROMs and kin can be used as programmable logic should probably not come as a major surprise, but [Jimmy] has created a Lisp-based project that makes using these …read more Continue reading Using EPROMS and EEPROMs As Programmable Logic With Lisp
During the late 1980s NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was busy developing the first ever wheeled robot that would roam the surface of Mars. Due to the long round-trip times …read more Continue reading When the Sojourner Mars Rover Nearly Ran LISP
Within the Artificial Intelligence and natural language research communities, Lisp has played a major role since 1960. Over the years since its introduction, various development environments have been created that …read more Continue reading Reviving Interlisp With the Medley Interlisp Project
Grizzled veterans of the computing industry will relate stories of submitting projects on stacks of punched cards, something those of us who stored their 8-bit works on audio cassettes could …read more Continue reading Punched Cards Are In The Cloud, With This Arduino
The last couple years have seen an incredible flourishing of the cyberdeck scene, and probably for about as many reasons as there are individual ’deck designs. Some people get really …read more Continue reading Computers for Fun
A common complaint among laptop users is that while battery technology has vastly improved over the past decades, a simulltaneous shrink in form factors has meant that a typical laptop …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: The PotatoP Runs Lisp For Months Without Recharging