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I mean, honestly, sometimes there's a post that comes up that you've been waiting for for years, right? I think Justine goes like on an inward self search or s

I mean, honestly, sometimes there's a post that comes up that you've been waiting for for years, right? I think Justine goes like on an inward self search or something for personally echoing creative landmarks in the overall late eighties early nineties PC scene, the posts we're all eagerly waiting for, and when she finds one then just stops waiting :-) Very inspiring overall, I'm eagerly waiting for the next one, but in the meantime let me enjoy this one.

jart 4y ago
Justine here. I'm glad to hear you've been enjoying it! A lot of what I do for fun in my spare time is read old code, since I want to understand the hopes and dreams of each generation, and then find some way to capture the essence of that dream using the advantages of modern tools. For example, https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/ https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/ was a really nice blog post that recreates the idea of LISP as it existed around 1960, except much smaller and beautifully polished since we now have better tools than punch cards. I'm obviously much younger than the original LISP hackers, but I put a lot of effort into understanding and faithfully recreating their ideas. I even colorized the LISP 1.5 listing for my blog https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/ https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/ while I was reading it, since you really get to know people when you read their code. In any case, you can expect some more content from me in the upcoming weeks.
- enriquto 4y ago
  In 40 years people will read your code and find it just as legendary as that of the original lisp hackers. From time to time, I reread ape.S and it always brings tears to my eyes. (Too bad that github botches the art, it has to be experienced inside a real text editor.)