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Yes, those of us who have been editing Lisp using Paredit-like commands for years [0] may not find that much value here. But I think we're not the target audie
by ScottBurson 11y ago
Yes, those of us who have been editing Lisp using Paredit-like commands for years [0] may not find that much value here. But I think we're not the target audience; the goal is to help get newcomers over the hump, and that will be a wonderful thing if it works.
[0] 35 years, in my case. David Chapman and I implemented balanced-parenthesis editing commands for Zmacs (the Lisp Machine editor) in 1980. To my knowledge, it was the first such implementation for a text editor; the Interlisp structure editor already existed, but was considered hard to use.
- mbrock 11y agoThis Chapman, I assume? https://meaningness.wordpress.com/about-david-chapman/ https://meaningness.wordpress.com/about-david-chapman/ I'm something of a fan. This article is great, about his history at MIT's artificial intelligence lab, Ken Wilber, Heidegger, and Buddhism. http://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence http://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artifi...
- ScottBurson 11y agoYep, that's him! Thanks for the links -- I had lost track of him and hadn't seen his blog.
- mbrock 11y ago:) Here he is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meaningness https://twitter.com/meaningness While sleuthing a bit on Google I realize he was also a contributor to the "UNIX-HATERS handbook." Weirdly, that was really fascinating literature to me as a ... 15 year old, maybe, in like 2004? In my Swedish teenage room full of messed up Linux and OpenBSD boxes, reading everything I could that seemed interesting and intelligent. That handbook, the C2 wiki, various mailing lists, Usenet groups, IRC channels... I attribute a lot of my personality and interests to this nerdy/literate heritage.
- ScottBurson 11y agoYes. I'm in the UHH too :-) Bottom of p. 211.