Lobster Roll

Stories by mepian

Why I Chose Common Lisp (blog.djhaskin.com)
Introducing OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contribution (dpldocs.info)
Why x86 Doesn’t Need to Die (chipsandcheese.com)
CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) (dreamsongs.com)
Authors: Richard P. Gabriel (Lucid, Inc.), Jon L White (Lucid, Inc.), Daniel G. Bobrow (Xerox PARC) Abstract: "Lisp has a long history as a functional language, where action is invoked by calling a procedure, and where procedural abstraction and encapsulation provide convenient modularity boun...
Symbolics S-Render manual (1985) (archive.org)
DARPA Spent $1 Billion Trying to Build a Real-Life Skynet in the 1980s (2013) (paleofuture.com)
Symbolics Sunstone Development Plan (1987) (wiki.unix-haters.org)
Symbolics S-Dynamics manual (1985) (archive.org)
Symbolics Color System manual (1986) (archive.org)
Lisp & Hardware Verification with ACL2 (youtube.com)
Symbolics S-Geometry manual (1988) (archive.org)
Kronos: Soviet Processor Family for High-Level Languages (2006) (inria.hal.science)
Genera Retrospective: "the world's first commercial object-oriented OS" (1991) (archive.org)
A modern BLISS compiler based on LLVM (gitlab.com)
Please test the parallel mark-region collector for SBCL (applied-langua.ge)
Xerox PARC: A Metaobject Protocol for C++ (1995) (dl.acm.org)
Abstract: "This paper presents a metaobject protocol (MOP) for C++. This MOP was designed to bring the power of meta-programming to C++ programmers. It avoids penalties on runtime performance by adopting a new meta-architecture in which the metaobjects control the compilation of programs instead ...
The Symbolics Ivory Design and Verification Strategy (1987) (archive.org)
Lisp Ireland, August Meetup - A Tour of Common Lisp (Part 2) (youtube.com)
The mix-in revolution (technologyreview.com)
Garbage Collection in a Large Lisp System (1984) (dl.acm.org)
David A. Moon (Symbolics Inc.) "This paper discusses garbage collection techniques used in a high-performance Lisp implementation with a large virtual memory, the Symbolics 3600. Particular attention is paid to practical issues and experience. In a large system problems of scale appear and the mo...
How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister) (youtube.com)
MLIR For Beginners (github.com)