XML is a generic format for data storage that has been widely used by the industry. That could be all that there is to XML, if were not for the importance of data in programming. One of the things you learn when using Lisp is that data can also be viewed as code — we just…
The idea of code reuse has been a gospel for many years among advocates of modular technologies: first structured programming, then object oriented as well as other types of programming methodologies. While it is a good thing that we are able to separate concerns and make our code more modular, there is also a downside…
The Free Software movement was created with the assumption that software should be freely modified by its users. The main premise being that having the rights of using a program also means the right of modifying it when necessary. Free software exists today in different forms, and it is widely used, however in many situations…