Artful Code

newLisp does not have nested contexts. This is because contexts are not OO-style objects, although they can be used to prototype other contexts. In fact, contexts are name spaces that can be manually created as needed. However, since they create efficient hashes that can be used for many of the same purposes as objects (such [...]

newLisp is a loosely-typed language. However, if you are developing a library or module that other projects may mix into their own code, it is useful to give helpful errors when a function receives incorrect input. Especially if your documentation is lax (which we know it never is), throwing usable errors when a function is [...]

When I first began to program newLisp, I was concerned that it lacked the structured error handling syntax of the imperative languages I was used to. As my software begins to mature and I add more sophisticated error handling, I find that newLisp’s simple functions result in cleaner, more expressive code. Submit article

There is an interesting article at Irrational Exuberance about anti-objects and reflective design. The author states, “The first – and only – programming paradigm I was taught at college was OO.” Another recent blog post by a college CS tutor laments that object oriented design is the first (and often, the only) abstraction method taught [...]

Have you ever had one of those moments where you suddenly just get it? It just happened to me with contexts in newLisp. Allow me to share my epiphany. Submit article