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There's a very good exercise on Codecrafters ( https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/shell/overview ) to walk you through writing your own shell. I found it enlightening, as well as …

There are several good suggestions in this thread already, but I think Nora Sandler's newish book ( https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Compiler-Programming-Language... ) is approachabl…

Back in 2009, before the acquisition, a developer ITA software presented at the SBCL workshop (audio here: http://www.sbcl.org/sbcl10/materials/cracauer-talk.ogg ), talking about t…

I'm an Emacs partisan, but the VSCode support for Common Lisp has come along way. Interested parties might look at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rheller.... .…

Without rat-holing on "should," here's something I had to do the other day: I am providing language-level APIs for a complex web service, one in Python and one in Common Lisp. The …

I write Lisp for a living (in a couple of different forms), and I've never seen this. You do occasionally get problems where the state drifts a bit and you end up with order depend…

I'm not going to gainsay your experience, but it doesn't match mine. Much of what you do in graduate school is to discover where the accessible areas of research are--where do we h…

I think that the explanation about credit scores probably applies here; much as people with good credit scores had better options than ISAs, people with some cash to put up do as w…

This is widely attributed to Sidney Morgenbesser ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser ).

I'm a fan of functional analysis, but even in my (very competitive) undergraduate curriculum, it wasn't required for a bachelor's in mathematics. I think Susan's guide covers most …

Clojure was built in 2007, so it's clear there have been some changes.

The Supreme Court was careful not to rule on that; they ruled only that it was a search, not that it was constitutionally unreasonable. There is good coverage of this decision by O…

So multiply it by your download speed. Let me know when you get to $22k.

First, the reason the "peak hourly retrieval rate" of "1 gigabyte per hour" is there in the article is to answer this question. At a relative allowance of 5.12 GB/day and 1 GB/hour…

They're not using tape storage. The ZDNet story confirms this: http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-launches-glacier-cloud-storage-h... . There are any number of reasons why deletes would b…

This article is a mess, and people need to stop voting it up. For example, it contains this perplexing passage: "Let’s say we have the string “hello world”, and let’s assume that i…