BruceM

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by BruceM 12y ago
I'm the Bruce that he mentioned in the post. For better or worse, I've been pushing Dylan forward heavily over the last few years and am effectively the primary maintainer. Over the last couple of years, we've made a lot of p
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by BruceM 12y ago
poll, epoll, kqueue, sigio and other options depending on OS, etc.
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19 projects win Knight News Challenge on strengthening the Internet(knightfoundation.org)
2 points by BruceM 12y ago|0 comments
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Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine(lispm.de)
179 points by BruceM 12y ago|91 comments
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by BruceM 12y ago
This is a subject that keeps coming up over the years in the Dylan community (and why, in part, Mikel is slowly working on an s-expression reader for the current compiler). It is impossible to know what might have happened if Dylan had kept
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by BruceM 12y ago
Well, keep in mind this point as well: At the time, there was much frustration that Apple Cambridge spent so much time on their new development environment, and not as much as we wanted on making improvements to the Dylan
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by BruceM 12y ago
http://pastebin.com/0vcwKsjk
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by BruceM 12y ago
Mikel has many stories to tell and it would be great if he would tell more of them (publicly). We talk occasionally due to our shared interest and history with Dylan ( http://opendylan.org/ ) and he's always got valuabl
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by BruceM 12y ago
IIRC, the machine hosting this doesn't always have a lot of resources / bandwidth. I'm pretty sure that he used to discourage linking to stuff there for that sort of reason. It works for me now at the moment though.
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by BruceM 12y ago
> Are there any other languages that allow the calling scope to specify how lower-level functions handle errors without unwinding the stack? Dylan ( http://opendylan.org/ ) has them, but that's because some of the sam
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by BruceM 12y ago
While horrifying, this was pretty interesting. The ability to interrupt the cycle of the worm with existing technology is inspiring.
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Guinea worm: Close to eradication? [video](aljazeera.com)
17 points by BruceM 12y ago|14 comments
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by BruceM 13y ago
And 68k to PPC.
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by BruceM 13y ago
We have a specification: http://opendylan.org/books/drm/ We have, in the past had multiple implementations, but due to community size, desire to evolve things, etc, we narrowed it down to Open Dylan being supporte
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by BruceM 13y ago
Apart from the syntax and our current lack of a REPL outside of Windows, Dylan ( http://opendylan.org/ ) sort of fits in that space. We're a lot like a slimmed down Common Lisp (designed by some of the same people that s
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by BruceM 13y ago
I like ReST as well. With Sphinx, it is great for producing documentation. A project that I work with has converted hundreds of pages of books of technical documentation over to Sphinx and a custom Sphinx extension.
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by BruceM 13y ago
What happened to research, investigation, profiling rather than just publishing snark, vitriol and guesswork?
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by BruceM 13y ago
This is pretty disrespectful to the Atom team and word is that they're not really happy about it. They have the right to limit the distribution of their beta software.
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by BruceM 13y ago
I've maintained a 417 day streak despite taking multiple holidays / vacations. My overall rule for what I do is to always make at least a little progress each day. Even if that means I go and fix some grammar or spelling in docs,
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by BruceM 13y ago
But sadly that list is for people with more than a certain number of followers. I'm not on it ( https://github.com/waywardmonkeys ) despite having over 2000 contributions and a 417 day streak. :(
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by BruceM 13y ago
Running Open Genera in a VM is quite an eye-opening experience. Such a very different vision of computing and what is possible.
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by BruceM 13y ago
The person who answered you isn't associated with GitHub and has been trolling the channel (and apparently you).
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by BruceM 13y ago
IntelliJ is pretty nice on this point. You write a PEG-style parser and get a full AST. It is a lot of work, but the payoff is pretty nice and they have a lot of solid tooling to help you out.
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by BruceM 13y ago
We should get you to help us with the text on our website. :)
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by BruceM 13y ago
Hi Nick, I have a branch that will soon allow using either Boehm or MPS on the various backends. That'll probably be the case for the LLVM backend as well. Part of the reason that I'm doing that is to help gather some performance
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by BruceM 13y ago
Thanks for your great summary. :) Functional Developer and now Open Dylan also support debugging on Windows, have a REPL (on Windows) and many other features. With the upcoming LLVM backend, we'll be able to bring those features to oth
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by BruceM 13y ago
Well, none of the things listed in our current call for help are issues with modifying the language. In fact, we spend a lot of time on improving things like the tools, libraries and documentation. Lately, we've made our test framework
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by BruceM 13y ago
A Common Lisp-style condition system is a pretty key thing for me. It is highly readable. And you can use '!' and '?' in names! An optimized implementation of multimethods is always nice. The ability to apply optional st
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by BruceM 13y ago
Good thing we already have a compiler that does a pretty good job. :) (But yes, it is a pretty complicated beast in places.) But at the time, the Apple Dylan IDE was pretty slow and buggy. It is amazing what a few years make much more feasi
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Open Dylan's Call for Help(opendylan.org)
92 points by BruceM 13y ago|46 comments

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