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  • And finally The Lisps sang an excerpt from their musical Futurity about when the human race turns into robots.

    Cator Sparks: An Evening With Soho Rep. The Broadway of the Avant Garde! Cator Sparks 2011

  • Ms. Benson, 33, last directed Zoe Caldwell in David Adjmi 's "Elective Affinities," and she's currently in rehearsals at American Repertory Theater for "Futurity," a musical created by the Brooklyn-based rock band the Lisps.

    Lost (and Found) in Space Lizzie SImon 2012

  • And finally The Lisps sang an excerpt from their musical Futurity about when the human race turns into robots.

    Cator Sparks: An Evening With Soho Rep. The Broadway of the Avant Garde! Cator Sparks 2011

  • Towards the end, Emily Brodsky and opening band The Lisps joined AFP on stage for a rousing version of Delilah, a Dresden Dolls number about a girl who seems to enjoy being abused in a bad relationship.

    Holly Cara Price: Review: Amanda Palmer at the Highline Ballroom, June 5, New York City 2009

  • The OO system needs to be a whole-program transformation rather than just some macros using the normal macroexpander since things like inheritance graphs and method lists for generic functions need to be accumulated together; most Lisps handle that with macros that destructively update data structures, but I'm trying to design a system without rampant mutation, so need a whole-program code walk to do this.

    Snell-Pym » 2008 » April 2008

  • The OO system needs to be a whole-program transformation rather than just some macros using the normal macroexpander since things like inheritance graphs and method lists for generic functions need to be accumulated together; most Lisps handle that with macros that destructively update data structures, but I'm trying to design a system without rampant mutation, so need a whole-program code walk to do this.

    Snell-Pym » Insomnia 2008

  • S-expression based languages eg, Lisps, and by a broader definition of s-expression, things like Prolog use a single regular syntax to represent the parse tree of code, rather than having parsing rules for each syntactic construct in the language.

    Snell-Pym » Syntactic sugar in s-expression languages 2007

  • They'll ordinarily make some kind of global declaration that macro calls can all be expanded at compile time, and macros won't cost any more than they do in current Lisps.

    Some Work on Arc 2003

  • But this Lisp must be a hacker's language, like the classic Lisps of the 1970s.

    Being Popular 2001

  • And yet the Lisps we have today are still pretty much what they had at MIT in the mid-1980s, because that's the last time

    Being Popular 2001

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