Phel is a Lisp‑inspired functional programming language for PHP that integrates seamlessly with the PHP ecosystem, offering immutable data structures, a macro system, an interactive REPL, and concise syntax, while providing step‑by‑step installation via Docker or Composer.
Fennel is a Lisp‑style programming language built on Lua that offers zero‑overhead compilation, full Lua compatibility, compile‑time macros, and easy embedding, making it ideal for creating games and art in environments like TIC‑80, while preserving the simplicity of s‑expressions.
The article showcases Justine Tunney’s remarkable engineering feats—from the RedBean web server that runs the same binary on six operating systems, to the cosmopolitan libc, a 512‑byte sectorLisp, the Blinkenlights visual debugger, the RoseHub security effort, and the llamafile tool that packages large language models into a single portable executable.
This article explains the concept of S‑Expressions, defines their simple syntax, and provides a complete C implementation that parses, stores, evaluates, and prints S‑Expression based Lisp code, including detailed explanations of data structures, constructors, destructors, and evaluation logic.
This article explains how to create a Lispy Value storage system in C, defining numeric and error types, enumerations, constructors, printing functions, and semantic error detection to support a simple Lisp REPL that evaluates Polish notation expressions.
This article introduces Lispy, a parsing‑style language built in C, outlines its design goals, showcases core features such as interactive REPL, arithmetic, list handling, lambda functions, conditional logic, and demonstrates a suite of utility libraries with complete code examples.
NASA’s Deep Space 1 mission, launched in 1998, relied on Lisp‑written control software, enabling remote REPL debugging across 240 million kilometers, and the story traces the language’s rise, internal politics, and eventual decline within JPL, illustrating the complexities of software engineering for interplanetary probes.
This article explores the concept of Single Source of Truth in SwiftUI, explains the nature of computer programs, compares compiled and interpreted languages, discusses Turing completeness and formal language history, demonstrates a simple Lisp interpreter, and examines how Xcode leverages ASTs for live SwiftUI previews, highlighting the benefits of a code‑out approach.
This article explains how Vipshop built the Hera data service since 2019 to provide a unified API for warehouse access, detailing its background, architecture, core features such as multi‑engine queries, adaptive execution, custom Lisp syntax, task scheduling, metrics collection, and performance gains for both B‑to‑B and B‑to‑C workloads.
This article compares Python, C++, Java, Lisp, and Prolog, outlining their strengths and weaknesses for artificial intelligence projects to help beginners decide which language to start with.
The article explores the historical and practical reasons for mastering C, compares it with Lisp, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, and Python, and reflects on how language choices shape software development, performance, and developer culture within large engineering teams.
