As a baby-faced 17-year-old, Naveed Akram was already a fervent follower of Islam, preaching on the streets of western Sydney ...

Hypoxia levels in Long Island Sound fell to their lowest point in nearly 30 years – a milestone officials say proves that efforts to restore the East Coast's second-largest estuary are paying off.

Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life. The entire pattern is viewable on the browser here. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time a high-level ...

For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work. One of the most enduring, clever, and geekily satisfying inside jokes has been hiding in plain sight: the recursive acronym.

Library net.didierverna.clon very powerful, but too complicated to use in simple cases. This library provides a wrapper which will suite your needs in 80% cases. Compare this code, which uses defmain ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

The eval-when special form allows pieces of code to be executed only at compile time, only at load time, or when interpreted but not compiled. Its uses are relatively esoteric. One example of the use ...

The authors describe their multiprocessing extensions to Common Lisp. They have added a few simple, expressive features on which one can build high-level constructs. These consist of a multithreading ...