LFE Friday - lists:delete/2
This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the
Erlang Thursday
series by Steven Proctor.
This week's translator: Robert Virding.
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Robert Virding | April 4, 2015 | Tags :
LFE Friday - erlang:list_to_atom/1
This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the
Erlang Thursday
series by Steven Proctor.
This week's translator: Robert Virding.
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Robert Virding | March 30, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: The Place of Lisp in the 21st Century
With this post we reach the end of the blog series highlighting the new preface for the LFE
edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
(book,
source) Below we ponder the question of Lisp's
pertinence to a field that has changed greatly since its beginnings in the
1940s and 1950s, a field that is almost defined by how much it changes. What
used to be unique characteristics of Lisp have have steadily – over the course
of more than 50 years – been integrated into old and new programming languages
alike. So, in particular, we ask weather Lisp still has something unique and
compelling to offer current and future generations of computer programmers.
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Duncan McGreggor | March 27, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: John McCarthy
John McCarthy: Creator of the prefix-notation programming language Lisp and founder of AI.
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Duncan McGreggor | March 26, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church: Creator of the λ‑calculus and articulator of the Church–Turing thesis.
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Duncan McGreggor | March 25, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell: Originator and co-author of the Principia Mathematica
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Duncan McGreggor | March 24, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano: Creator of the first recursive function definition.
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Duncan McGreggor | March 23, 2015 | Tags :
LFE Friday - ordsets:is_disjoint/2
This week's LFE Friday was translated with permission from the
Erlang Thursday
series by Steven Proctor.
This week's translator: Robert Virding.
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Robert Virding | March 22, 2015 | Tags :
The Hidden Origins of Lisp: Introduction
As mentioned earlier,
this post kicks off a blog series highlighting the new preface for the LFE
edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
(book,
source) The posts will be comprised of the
preface introduction and then a collection of short biographies as pertains to
the foundation (laid by the given individual) which ended up being crucial to
the development of Lisp, concluding with a section regarding Lisp's important
role in the future of computer science and related industries:
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Duncan McGreggor | March 22, 2015 | Tags :
SICP: the LFE Edition - Update
An update on the LFE edition of SICP and a note about the new preface
The LFE Edition of the historic Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs (book,
source) continues to make steady progress,
including getting a new preface. This post is a teaser for additional posts
which will appear here in the coming days. But first, here's how things stand
so far:
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Duncan McGreggor | March 22, 2015 | Tags :
