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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 interpre…

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 t…

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 (…

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