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Lisp with Algol-like syntax was of course Mulisp (1977). It was so beautiful and complete that it was end of history. Everything else thereafter is just endless

Lisp with Algol-like syntax was of course Mulisp (1977). It was so beautiful and complete that it was end of history. Everything else thereafter is just endless recycling same old shit. When you have clear rules between these two forms, you can implement macros effectively. Algol-programming department need not do macros anyway, because they are too stupid. http://www.edm2.com/index.php/MuLISP http://www.edm2.com/index.php/MuLISP

r9550684 3y ago
(hello, you are one of the people that have greatly inspired me many years go! in the early hackerspace days there was a lot of talk of diy, but it was a kind of consumer lifestyle thing, like stitching a new strap to your laptop backpack. I think the accounts of your projects, and your adventures, put me in the direction of thinking of diy as not some kind of external activity, but as the default mode of living. solving problems from first principles, refining them from experience, solving your own problems with solutions that are fundamentally superior to off the shelf consumer stuff, because they are driven by your own needs and knowledge and experience. my vessel of choice is a dinghy, and it's built from a kit, and the waters I navigate are much gentler than yours, but everything else is diy and jury rigged, and I sometimes would say some solution is "in the spirit of timonoko", and sometimes people ask "who's timonoko" and I say "oh it's this crazy cool Finnish kayaking guy, he wrote his own navigation software from first principles, and he wrote his own lisp, and he got into all kinds of amazing kayaking adventures" so, thank you!)
- timonoko 3y ago
  This is the way.
kazinator 3y ago
This looks like the implementation: https://github.com/jlfaucher/FormMath/blob/master/SRC/MUSIMP.LSP https://github.com/jlfaucher/FormMath/blob/master/SRC/MUSIMP... Curiously, the comments are in French.

r9550684 3y ago

(hello, you are one of the people that have greatly inspired me many years go! in the early hackerspace days there was a lot of talk of diy, but it was a kind of consumer lifestyle thing, like stitching a new strap to your laptop backpack. I think the accounts of your projects, and your adventures, put me in the direction of thinking of diy as not some kind of external activity, but as the default mode of living. solving problems from first principles, refining them from experience, solving your own problems with solutions that are fundamentally superior to off the shelf consumer stuff, because they are driven by your own needs and knowledge and experience. my vessel of choice is a dinghy, and it's built from a kit, and the waters I navigate are much gentler than yours, but everything else is diy and jury rigged, and I sometimes would say some solution is "in the spirit of timonoko", and sometimes people ask "who's timonoko" and I say "oh it's this crazy cool Finnish kayaking guy, he wrote his own navigation software from first principles, and he wrote his own lisp, and he got into all kinds of amazing kayaking adventures" so, thank you!)

timonoko 3y ago
This is the way.

kazinator 3y ago

This looks like the implementation: https://github.com/jlfaucher/FormMath/blob/master/SRC/MUSIMP.LSP https://github.com/jlfaucher/FormMath/blob/master/SRC/MUSIMP... Curiously, the comments are in French.