Lisp has done quite well over the last ten years: becoming nearly standardized, forming the basis of a commercial sector, achieving excellent performance, having good environments, able to deliver applications. Yet the Lisp community has failed to do as well as it could have. In this paper I look at the successes, the failures, and what to do next. The Lisp world is in great shape: Ten years ag...

This paper proposes a visual functional programming language called IconicLisp. The IconicLisp system is an interactive environment for the development of Lisp programs visually. It uses the Cons-Cell graphical notations to write visual Lisp programs. The syntax and the semantics of IconicLisp are based on the functional programming language Lisp. Once a visual program is developed, the IconicL...

Reverse engineering software systems, especially large legacy systems, is a difficult task, because of the sheer size and complexity of the systems. Many approaches have been developed to analyze software systems written in different languages. These approaches employ vary techniques like metrics or visualizations, and typically rely on parsing the system and on extracting a model that conforms...

Criteria for productive application development are considered (yet again), and a point is made why we regard Lisp as the only language suited for that task. Pico Lisp is presented as a successful example, used in commercial applications for many years, and adapted to this task (arguably) better than any other Lisp.

We describe Slisp (pronounced ‘Ess-Lisp’), a hybrid Lisp–C programming toolkit for the development of scriptable and distributed applications. Computationally expensive operations implemented as separate C-coded modules are selectively compiled into a small Xlisp interpreter, then called as Lisp functions in a Lisp-coded program. The resulting hybrid program may run in several modes: as a stand...

The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) limits the growth of the Default-Free Zone routing tables by creating a highly aggregatable and quasi-static Internet core. However, LISP pushes the forwarding state to edge routers whose timely operation relies on caching of location to identity bindings. In this paper we develop an analytical model to study the asymptotic scalability of the LISP cache...