This is a nice piece on "computer archeology". Given the academic nature of language design (I don't want to say "functional programing" or "LISP" here), it is

This is a nice piece on "computer archeology". Given the academic nature of language design (I don't want to say "functional programing" or "LISP" here), it is obvious why it was written in the form of a scientific paper. If this was about the language C, I guess this would have been a blog post! Note how ArXiV can be used for blogging: This paper is not peer reviewed but "only" uploaded to ArXiV. The site has some credibility barrieres which require invitation, but otherwise anybody can upload. I find this nice, but you should keep in mind this is just some academic variant of blogger.com ;-)