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I've been using packages for so long in CL and I never think about them. I think about other stuff. Like, how do I get format to do that thing I want it to do
by e40 12y ago
I've been using packages for so long in CL and I never think about them. I think about other stuff. Like, how do I get format to do that thing I want it to do? I always have to look it up. Packages? They just work and work well.
I think RMS is having the same problem really smart people have: if it can't be made perfect I don't want it. I regularly see this in some smart people. They reject stuff because it's not the way they want it, without them being able to articulate why they don't want it.
In the early 90's I (and others) wrote not a small package and we used prefixes to avoid problems. It was ugly though, and a real package system would have been nice. For those interested, it's here: https://github.com/franzinc/eli https://github.com/franzinc/eli