Abstract Heresies

              Unorthodox opinions on computer science and programming.

Friday, September 4, 2026

Will it DEFMACRO?

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Why write boilerplate code when you can ask an LLM can do it for you? But even LLMs will avoid boilerplate if they can. I recently vib...
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Thursday, September 3, 2026

Recursive Descent: Vibe Coded Rogue-like in Common Lisp

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I was talking with Amit Patel of Red Blob Games the other day and he mentioned that he had been participating in a programming endeav...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Will it CPS?

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Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a functi...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Functional Refactoring Pass

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This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet. I'm a firm believer in functional programming and I consider myself a `mostly functional...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Will it Lisp?

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Yesterday I mentioned that my LLM was generating some fairly good Lisp code and showed some examples of the code it generated. An anony...
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