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Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (2014)

Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry.
Like many hackers, my first real programming language love was Lisp. Paul Graham, who inspired my own explorations of the language, is a particular advocate and has written quite a bit about Lisp a…

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