Inaimathi

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by Inaimathi 15y ago
Just to clarify; I am not in fact Steve Yegge (though I've been told I have a similar writing style), just a young lisper who read his essays.
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
Heh. The traditional snippet associated with that argument is the Game of Life in APL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 And yes, this is specifically why I opted to redefine "power" in my post; the standard definition leaves out
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
I could see this in the extremes (a one-of data-munging script has no maintainability requirement, for example), but accepting the weights as completely subjective seems dangerously close to saying "All languages are equally powerful, and i
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
That's the argument I fundamentally disagree with. It may be true for things like SQL (or PS or the many, many DSLs out there), but general-purpose programming languages are implicitly (perhaps tautologically) supposed to be good for the ge
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
This is true, and I don't have extensive enough experience to weigh those correctly (and even if I did, I would be heavily biased by the languages I currently use). This is why I opted to wuss out rather than risk getting it horribly wrong.
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
Sorry about the confusion. "Omega" was a reference to the Seibel talk I quote from, in which he casually postulates Omega as the most powerful language that might be built for current architectures.
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
I haven't had a chance to play with it seriously yet, but I went over a "getting started" tutorial a while back. forth-mode is installed and ready on Emacs in case I get some spare time; it's on my to-do list along with some more serious Py
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
Agreed, except with the "they aren't looking back" part. If that were true, Lisk and Liskell wouldn't exist (and people wouldn't be wondering aloud "How can I get pattern matching-definitions or point free style in Lisp?") The conclusion of
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
That's exactly what I meant. The CL version has options, the Scheme version just takes a format string (which has fewer possible directives than its CL counterpart), which makes it less flexible and slightly more verbose. To be fair, it's n
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
The other points about the web server (which Jay ended up focusing on more) are really side issues; my biggest gripe was that lack of iteration during the development phase. If I could change code on the fly, I'd be a happy camper.
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by Inaimathi 16y ago
A while ago I noticed that I was suddenly doing more coding in SBCL than PLT Scheme. When I thought about it, I realized that Steve Yegge said the same thing a long time ago and I remember reacting with dismissal. The post wasn't about Yegg