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Hello from Dublin! Yesterday I had the privilege of attending KatsConf2, a functional programming conference put on by the fun-loving, welcoming, and crazy-well-organized @FunctionalKats. It was a whirlwind of really exciting talks from some of the best...

or, "why does building guile take so friggin long" Happy new year's, hackfolk! I don't know about y'all, but I'm feeling pretty good about 2016. Let's make some cool stuff! Today's article is about Guile and how it builds itself. It's a Scheme implementation...

2014 is going to be a busy year for Lisp. The 7th European Lisp Symposium (Paris, May) will be followed by the International Lisp Conference (August, Montréal). ILC 2014's Call for Papers is just out! And this year, we have a special focus for...

IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), which met at the Organization's London Headquarters for its 91st session from 26 to 30 November 2012, agreed that rules to require passenger safety drills to take place prior to, or immediately upon, departure should...

Planet Haskell readers might want to skip this one. Recently I've been thinking about the possibilities offered by embedded interpreters. This is becoming a common design pattern in commercial software -- games written in C++ embedding Lua, for example...