Dr. Alan Kay talks about the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming”. His summary:

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I’m not aware of them.

Rewriting Reddit. The story of Reddit’s rewrite from Lisp to Python.

Erik Naggum intelligently rants about the weaknesses in XML. He says:

XML, being the single suckiest syntactic invention in the history of mankind, offers you several layers at which you can do exactly the same thing very differently, in fact so differently that it takes effort to see that they are even related.

Paul Graham’s Arc status page, his next-gen Lisp tool.

The Art of Lisp & Writing

The story of a developer finding Lisp: Aha! While writing YAQL I accidentally discovered Lisp.

A small lisp interpreter. Can be fit in as little as 20k on x86.

A Lisp Movie, intended to show people why Lisp is so darned cool.

Philip Greenspun said SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I’ve seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.