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Actors in Common Lisp
01/03/2008 actors(3)common-lisp(2)Taking a brief look at my current project of implementing Erlang/Scala style actors in Common Lisp.
The Subtle Joys of Generic Methods
12/11/2008 python(48)language-design(4)common-lisp(2)The object system in Common Lisp has something that almost no one else does: generic methods. Also called multi-methods, these allow a flexible and safe approach to dynamically adding functionality to a class at runtime. It's monkey patching without the monkey. When I write my programming language in a few decades, these are going to be there.
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