FractalLP

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by FractalLP 8y ago
As an engineer I don't understand "engineering is done without numbers". All engineering revolves around math. Granted, estimations are needed when your doing analysis on something with no simple formula or that 12 inch pipe
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Alexander has a "Need for Speed" article where he shows it's in the neighborhood of Clisp, but Clisp isn't really all that fast. Comparing to SBCL would be more useful as it is very fast.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
It sounds like you stopped. Care to share the reason?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Alexander Burger has some free books out on it, but a lot of it still requires more work to really learn it than I can put in right now. I'd love to see a book on building really small business apps with it though.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Cool! Most DBA's I know tend to stay on the side of what is popular like Java. Do you use Lisp at work? If so, any pushback?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Clojure compiles to JVM bytecode, so it should run much much faster than an interpreted picolisp. Clojure works on Windows too, while Picolisp needs Cygwin I think. Picolisp is really simple from a language point of view. It has a small gro
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by FractalLP 8y ago
http://www.specnext.com/about/
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Any reason y basic is the only high level pl? Tradition and compatibility with old software? Thanks btw!
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by FractalLP 8y ago
APL is really good and fast with matrices. I mean it is an array language and a matrix is just an array with another dimension. The problem though is that it wouldn't be fast enough for actual scientific computation on non-trivial data
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Thanks for the update. I know that this probably isn't the right place, but I'll go ahead and ask since you seem to be in the know. What languages are implemented for this spectrum? I know Assembly and Basic, but is there a C comp
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Is that just because no large initiatives have been made?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
They are perpetually sold out it seems.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Wasn't he allowing some remakes?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'd say this is regional. I've met lots of people in the south with a theology background and it is commonly seen as a good thing and I'd say atheists experience being ostracized far more often when a huge portion of your cow
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Esperanto is surprisingly easy to learn and is meant to be a secondary language. Realistically, it's probably going to be English. Some say Mandarin in 20 years, but there are a lot of practical reasons why I find that hard to believe.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Rich Hickey has responded to this many times. They made Clojure free and open source and have put lots of their own $$ into Clojure. If they want to make a product that costs money, that is their choice. They also need to keep the lights on
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Science Fiction Browser Based MMO Game(taustation.space)
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by FractalLP 8y ago
The glyphs are unicode now and I bet A+ is just legacy and new things are kdb+ which is the successor to A+. Can anyone confirm?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
There is a PBS Spacetime episode describing this. The host is very talented: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hd3AI2CAA
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Yea. Using Mathematica is much easier to do than Jupyter as my IT department just has to purchase. Sadly, I have a lot of data, so using a calculator (even programmable RPN)is out of the question. Even Excel is too small foe some things.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Carl Sassenrath (Amiga and Rebol inventor) tried to do this with Rebol. He had what he called iOS (internet operating system) that would let you share the tiny Rebol source files. A 1/2 page of Rebol can run a fully functional GUI with
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I used MathCAD in college engineering, but never the Word interface. My wife had to use it for all her engineering classes and was a whiz with it. Still, the overall system is pretty far behind in overall functionality I would say.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Thanks for posting. I'm sure bugs like this show up in any and all software. I do wish they had a public bug tracker though.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I hear what you're saying and you're right that WinPython & Anaconda certainly help, but the documentation is still a long way off from Mathematica in my opinion. One thing in Python's favor though might be depth in certa
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Long time user of Python here and recent user of Mathematica. Some observations I have are that they're both great. Python is a nice open source scripting language, but getting libraries to work can sometimes be a pain. Mathematica is
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Agreed. I found it a bit of a pain though to write using it as most languages have so much syntactic sugar for OO.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
They had pilot BPL (broadband over power lines) projects (I think ibec comes to mind) back in the day, but the FCC doesn't like interference and the BRU (broadband regenerator units) that have to be installed every so often to fix sign
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Lol I thought the author might be joking, but couldn't tell. Overall I love APL (hobby language) and think this would be neat if feasible.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
I think APL is for "a programming language", not "another programming language".
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by FractalLP 9y ago
I barely even write perl, but still read part of his OO book and learned a lot

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