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Photo by Piotr Makowski on UnsplashEvery programming language bills itself as a general purposes programming language, but that always comes with tradeoffs. Working in a systems programming language gives you access to pointers and raw memory, affording you fine grained control over your code. However, this comes at...

For a while I have wanted to make my own terminal utility for manipulating text files. Some version of Sed, or AWK; or maybe even .jq. And I finally did. So here are the first 25 Fibonacci numbers calculated, and printed in an unnecessarily complicated way, using my new query language: Lisp Query Notation (LQN): ❭ e...

I was just chatting with Ben Titzer on Twitter about control flow in his Virgil language (which is cool and you should definitely check out), when I felt the need to once more promote how Common Lisp does non-local control flow (stuff like returning early from a function or breaking from a loop), because I think it'...