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by amszmidt 1y ago
Note however, that you can't use diff on binaries, [...] You absolutely can, but you need to use an external diff tool: fossil diff --command "compare" You can also customise the diff-command variable. You
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Yes, it is called "unversioned files" in Fossil, but the max size is limited to what SQLite can handle in a single blob (so ~4Gbytes) https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/unvers.wiki
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by amszmidt 1y ago
The original cc was just a wrapper like this Python example around a bunch of external programs, calling c00, c01, until something could be fed to as and then linked using ld. GCC does basically the same thing even today,
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by amszmidt 1y ago
A carriage is a wagon that transports people, not "things", a carriage are also usually wheeled, just like wagons. In this case, one reason why "wagon return" might have made more sense is because there is a wagon that h
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by amszmidt 1y ago
The LMI and MIT Lisp Machine source code is not proprietary since about 10 and 20 years respectively.
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Dan Ingalls answer is much more interesting than anything I could explain ... From https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998... Ralph - Many times I have browsed past your article
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Its not the Romanian flag (order of color is different).
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by amszmidt 1y ago
The git log says differently. Not everything needs a "release" to be alive.
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by amszmidt 1y ago
From what I see -- that is not the case. The current state is _very_ fast in simulation to the point where it is uninteresting (there are other things to figure out) to write something as a behavioral model of the '181/'182.
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> Provocative question: would a modern Lisp Machine necessarily use Lisp? Seeing that not even "Original Gangster" Lisp Machine used Lisp ... Both the Lambda and CADR are RISCy machines with very little specific to Lisp (the CA
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Current work is at http://github.com/ams/cadr4 And of course .. https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3 .
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Mostly dead. Current Lisp Machine shenanigans related to MIT/LMI are at https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3 ... Currently working on an accurate model of the MIT CADR in VHDL, and merging the various System source trees into o
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> [...] and notebooks have embedded code in documentation since Mathematica in the 1980's. Late 80's, very late ... but the concept of "notebooks" predates Mathematica by at least a decade (it was very common to embed
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by amszmidt 1y ago
That is a very acute observation!
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by amszmidt 1y ago
(No need for LET*, just LET would suffice.)
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> What were the other colors? ADA was designed around a competition between four companies, to make it unbiased the proposals got named by colour. Honeywell was Green, Intermetrics was Red, SofTech was Blue, and SRI was Yellow. There wh
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by amszmidt 1y ago
While the Lisp Machine does use lists, the benefits of CDR coding were / are quite overblown. The Lisp Machine also used other data structures far heavier than lists. The Lisp Machine macroinstructions aren't that complicated, it
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Not sure where this "analysis" comes from, but the demise of the Lisp Machine has generally been agreed that it had to do more with the speed of technological advances than Common Lisp -- by the time Common Lisp was standardized,
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Sinks where you wash dishes tend to be far more dirty than any shower. Having showers at work is awesome, it means you can take a proper bike ride to work, and freshen up.
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by amszmidt 1y ago
It is documented in detail in the GNU screen manual, https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Log
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Yeah entirely possible. The threading code does seem to be "similar" enough to warrant some investigation, but from the looks no license notice was "removed". Even the threading code in question has never had one, from
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> 1. Commit 3ba50ec which Marcan is complaining about was pushed in 2008 and didn't just delete attrib specifically, but all (?) VCS comments indiscriminately. The file was barely touched since FWIW -- I think this is the commit bei
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> A good way to make sure your project won't cross compile is to use Autoconf. Rampant use of Autoconf is the main reason distros gave up on cross compiling and started using QEMU. Developers who use Autoconf and who don't know
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by amszmidt 1y ago
> A recent HN submission shows a ./configure system made from scratch using makefiles, which parallelizes the tests. That could be a good starting point for a C on Linux project today. Not everything is C, or GNU/Linux. The ex
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Such a license would be a non-free software / not open source license.
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by amszmidt 1y ago
FWIW, GNU/Hurd has been able to run a desktop environment the last 20+ years. And as someone who portedgor Doom working on GNU/Hurd decades ago … I’m going to wager that the GP has never used it. :-)
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by amszmidt 1y ago
Steve Russell comment is about writing the actual interpreter for Lisp, so the comment is correct on that Lisp started out as an interpreted language, and even mentions that in the comment that you quote. The interpreter (i.e. Lisp READ-EVA
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by amszmidt 1y ago
The only truth to the story is the missed email. There is nothing "unmodular" about GCC -- considering that it supports plenty of architectures, operating systems, and languages. The big difference, which people seem to miss in th
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by amszmidt 1y ago
That quote is from Robert Schumann, a German composer contemporary with Chopin. It was not a citation from any Russian officials, nor was Chopin banned in Poland by the Russians (it was banned during the German occupation for a while).
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by amszmidt 1y ago
AFAIR .. it wasn't even banned during the Imperial Russian times; rather it was just considered a "Russian" dance. Never heard of the Polonez being banned during PRL times... We sure danced it out in the fields then (though t

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