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Lisp is one of those languages that people either love or hate. Count me among the Lisp lovers. I was brainwashed during my undergraduate studies at MIT to believe that Lisp is the only "real" ...

Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it ...

Briefly, Clojure is a “dialect of Lisp” and “predominantly a functional programming language” and thus, has a lot of smart people excited. As Stu himself states in the podcast, Clojure “unleashes the ...

This month's column diverges from the normal pattern of covering my struggles with technology. When I started this column, I was really looking forward to the Software Development issue, because I was ...

A new analysis of Reddit comments shows which language’s developers seem to be the happiest - and which are the most foul-mouthed Last week I had some bad news for Clojure developers: based on an ...

Data science/big data exists at the crossroads of traditional analytics and large scale computation. As such, neither the traditional tools of analytics (R, Mathematica, Matlab) nor mainstreams ...