Parenthetically Speaking

A column by Kent M Pitman in the (now long defunct) ACM Lisp Pointers, considering Lisp from a technical and a philosophical viewpoint. Six (all six?) of these are at http://www.nhplace.com/people/kent/PS/About-PS.html .

http://www.nhplace.com/people/kent/PS/Lambda.html is an article titled "More than just words - LambdaTheUltimate political party".

...The reason is really the same as before--in a world of trade-offs, different priorities yield different decisions. The same differences in priorities that have led the Lisp community to become a different community than the C community...