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LLMS and Lisp
I recently listened to a talk by Anurag Mendhekar from the 2025 European Lisp Symposium entitled: Back to the Future: Lisp in the New Age of AI on YouTube. In the talk, he outlined the reasons why Lisp was the lingua franca of AI development up until the late 1980s; what happened to AI in the 1990s and 2000s; and how Lisp was replaced by Python during the Machine Learning era. Finally, he takes a look towards the future and how Lisp might still play a role in Computer Scien
Sophie Germain Primes
Sophie Germain was a French mathematician that lived from 1776 to 1831. Highly motivated, curious and mainly self-taught from the books...
Fractals with Lisp
If you can find a graphics library for a Common Lisp implementation (or cobble together your own solution), then it is quite easy to...
Three Good Lisp Books
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” - C.S. Lewis Learning a new computer language by poking...
Getting Started
So you've heard of Lisp but how do you do Lisp? For being such a classic language that has been around for more than 60 years, sometimes...
(print "Hello World!")
Before Python, Perl, Javascript, C#, and Lua there was another super productive language that would grow and grow the more you learned....
