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I have seen your essays and finally bothered to look at your home page in your profile. Now you work on SC4? And before JPL and other places of ill repute? W
by 616c 10y ago
I have seen your essays and finally bothered to look at your home page in your profile.
Now you work on SC4? And before JPL and other places of ill repute?
When do you kick back and put out low quality, lowbrow work? Haha.
I was curious to see Lexicons, and Ciel seems neat, now there is a buildup in systems programming in high level langs. GC-less and system-friendly Lisps are hard to come by, and sadly it seems like work on this stopped a while back.
Thanks for all your work, open and closed. I have enjoyed your essays and you seem to be giving us great stuff. Keep it up!
- lisper 10y agoThanks for the kind words. > When do you kick back and put out low quality, lowbrow work? I have gobs of "low quality, lowbrow work" which I don't publish. Too embarrassing. But I kick back a lot. Lisp is a huge lever that allows me to appear a lot more productive than I really am :-)
- 616c 10y agoSome of us can be unproductive, Lisp or not. Despite all the jokes I can profer on HN in this trendy topic, some of us are destined to suck at programming, from Assemly to PHP to Datalog to J!
- lisper 10y ago> some of us are destined to suck at programming That sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- 616c 10y agoI keep coming back, years later after avoiding a CS minor even, because the bruises on my ego from it being beyond me. I wonder which n+1 iteration will be the charm. Haha.
- lisper 10y agoHave a look at this (please note that it's very much a work in progress): https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP/ https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP/ Feedback appreciated.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoTry Scratch. MIT designed it for kids to do code like they play with legos. They proceeded to do amazing things with it. https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu/
- 616c 10y agoI am waiting for my son to grow up a little to play with it. Honestly, I find a lot of this frustrating because I do not have a small goal. This week I came up with a few minor projects and will try to implement them in different languages if I have a chance, like an IP subnet calculator, and a reporting tool for maildirs on my computer. Trying to learn without simple goals has proven wasteful. I decided this last weekend to change course. We shall see how it goes.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI suck at programming right now, and am sure that I will always suck to some extent. The trick is putting in the effort to suck LESS.