Lisp, the Universe and Everything

This is a snippet of the "Trees" chapter of the book. Couldn't resist adding this xkcd Balancing a binary tree is the in...

This is a snippet of the "Hash-Tables" chapter of the book. Now, we can move on to studying advanced data structures which are...

This is a snippet of the "Key-Values" chapter of the book. To conclude the description of essential data structures, we need to ...

RUTILS is my take on the Lisp "modernization" effort that adds the missing syntactic and data structure pieces, which became prov...

This is a snippet of the "Lists" chapter of the book. Linked data structures are in many ways the opposite of the contiguous one...

This is a snippet of the "Arrays" chapter of the book. Arrays are, alongside structs, the most basic data structure and, at t...

The next several chapters will be describing the basic data structures that every programming language provides, their usage, and the most i...

The introductory post for this book, unexpectedly, received quite a lot of attention, which is nice since it prompted some questions, and on...

Drago — a nice example of a real-world binary tree This was the first post about my book on algorithms and Lisp. Writing it, actually, st...

Recently, Tamas Papp wrote about one problem he had with Lisp in the context of scientific computing: that it's impossible to specializ...