Why I Still Lisp (and You Should Too)

The Common Lisp Cookbook

A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp

The Lisp Curse

The expressive power of Lisp has drawbacks.

Learn C • Build Your Own Lisp

If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you.

The Coalton Programming Language

A statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to Common Lisp

ELS 2026, Kraków - European Lisp Symposium

Homepage for the European Lisp Symposium

Using Lisp libraries from other programming languages - now with sbcl

Have you ever wanted to call into your Lisp library from C? Have you ever written your nice scientific application in Lisp, only to be requ...

Its Time for a New Programming Language

Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise

How a dialect of LISP can help developping modern enterprise applications

A break from programming languages

This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.

ZigCool

I can’t think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised more than Zig. I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion. To say it’s merely a language to replace C or C++, it’s a huge understatement.

Practical Common Lisp

This page, and the pages it links to, contain text of the Common Lisp book Practical Common Lisp published by Apress These pages now contain the final text as it appears in the book. If you find errors in these pages, please send email to book@gigamonkeys.com. These pages will remain online in perpetuity—I hope they will serve as a useful introduction to Common Lisp for folks who are curious about Lisp but maybe not yet curious enough to shell out big bucks for a dead-tree book and a good Common Lisp tutorial for folks who want to get down to real coding right away. However, don't let that stop you from buying the printed version available from Apress at your favorite local or online bookseller. For the complete bookstore browsing experience, you can read the letter to the reader that appears on the back cover of the treeware edition of the book.

Lisp Against the (LL)Machine

Every Lisp, Scheme, and Lisp-adjacent project listed is a non-toy implementation that is at least somewhat active. When I first wrote this article (2026-03-12), most Lisps did not have a policy or even public stance on LLM contributions. In such cases I posted to their bug trackers or discussion lists to ask. Most maintainers kindly responded.

Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design.

What is some curious and unexpected custom method you use to learn a language better?

23 votes, 36 comments. I'd like to know if you guys have a particular method (maybe that you invented) that helped you to learn a language, maybe…