Disclaimer If you’re looking for a flame post - this is not one of them. I love both languages and I’ll simply compare some of their features and possible uses. Prelude Ruby or Python? This is t...

One task that often recurs in programming is the need to parse a string representation of a number(or several numbers) and convert it to its numeric value. Parsing integer value in Common Lisp is f...

Prelude Should I stay or should I go now, should I stay or should I go now If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double So come on and let me know I guess nothing describes mo...

Prelude I’ve been using Z Shell (a.k.a. zsh) for about three years now and continue to be impressed by its immense power and flexibility. Switching from bash to zsh was a decision as good as switc...

Prelude Programming languages have always been a passion of mine and through the years I’ve learnt quite a few of them. The first one was Pascal, some 13 years ago, and the last was Scala, just a ...

Prelude I love reading - I love fiction, I love technical literature, I love newspapers and magazines. I’m also a bit of old fashioned - I love the feel and smell of paper, I love the ability to f...

One of the things I love most about Lisp development is the ability to develop applications in an incremental interactive manner - you write one function, compile it, load into your current REPL se...

During the past few months I’ve been working on a project to convert my vast Emacs configuration into something generally useful and self-contained that could help the typical software engineer. Th...

As you know I’ve recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. One of the things I had to do was add an Atom feed (RSS sucks). It was quite the easy task. I just had to create an atom.xml fil...

This is my first post after a very long hiatus partially induced by a migration of my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, which I started half an year ago and never quite finished.1 I wasn’t particular...