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by enupten 12y ago
That's the equivalent of $50000 in Purchasing Power; so it's not as bad. Although to be fair, a lot of commodities appear to cost a lot more in India, because they are tied (legally or otherwise) to the outside world (blame Indira
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by enupten 12y ago
What's even more fascinating is that ISRO survived at all, through the cold war. The fact that India has a fledgling space program, despite its problems, strikes me as rather inspiring. The fact that it was done cheaply stems partly fr
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by enupten 12y ago
Have you seen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_the_People_%28Yes,_Pri...
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by enupten 12y ago
I see Mumbai is going to become more chic.
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by enupten 12y ago
I know jargon looks unsurmountable at first, but if you pay close attention to definitions, they are usually extremely simple. To wit, the example you quote is just the set of strings on X.
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by enupten 12y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "simpler" ? Drop me a mail if you like.
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by enupten 12y ago
It does matter when Lisp is not given due credit.
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by enupten 12y ago
Did you see the wiki ?
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by enupten 12y ago
I would also add parametric types to that list. I've always found it really annoying not to be able to define a type like "array" with element-type, dimensions and things (other than the global variable hack). Did you mean Sc
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by enupten 12y ago
That's mostly because we get annoyed when we see old things being marketed as "new" and "hip" :) That's not proselytizing, that's snobbery.
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by enupten 12y ago
It probably was when computers were less popular :)
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by enupten 12y ago
Iterate is so much cooler! defmacro-clause has been a godsend for my work.
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by enupten 12y ago
> It's just the community that seems to want to keep it that way. To be fair, it's just that no one cares to proselytize.
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by enupten 12y ago
The prefix-notation is annoying when you're doing anything mathematical. It's sad that CL doesn't come with a infix reader by default, I'm sure there is one on quicklisp.
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by enupten 12y ago
The big difference between Scheme and CL is probably that the former encourages recursion, hygienic macros and is a Lisp-1. Moving from CL to Scheme is very annoying for this very reason. The lack of portability and a SLIME-like IDE doesn&#
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by enupten 12y ago
May be that's how they get ardent devotees, like the Sufi masters of yore :D
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by enupten 12y ago
Learning CLOS from "The Art of MOP" is a stupid idea. Sonya Keene's book is far more suitable, and also rather unnecessary. Onlisp is a useful resource: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html . ANSI CL is nice
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by enupten 12y ago
All CL's have a #'disassemble, although the output of it is left undefined.
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by enupten 12y ago
> I need interoperability with native libs, JVM is just a hindrance for me. Have you checked out CFFI/Common Lisp ? I've heard Chicken Scheme and Bigloo are also quite good when it comes to this.
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by enupten 12y ago
If I were Kramer, I would dub thee Anti-Statite.
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by enupten 12y ago
Brace yourself for another Cold war.
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by enupten 12y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's what's behind the new R7RS.
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by enupten 12y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to SBCL ? Pity about the name though. It would've been more appropriate to name it on one of the "victorious" tyrants of our age. Perhaps one of "Columbus", "Churchill",
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by enupten 12y ago
The incompatibilities between Schemes is one for starters.
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by enupten 12y ago
I used to use StumpWM and clfsWM, but instabilities in CLX drove me to Openbox.
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by enupten 12y ago
I wish someone imported Coconut water from India; the Thai ones are just so awful (or is this because of all the poking that they do to it ?).
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Ramanujan was mediocre Math student(thehindu.com)
1 points by enupten 12y ago|0 comments
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by enupten 12y ago
If the story stop you from watching a movie, it probably wasn't worth watching to being with :)
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Lisp: Winners announced(lispinsummerprojects.org)
3 points by enupten 12y ago|0 comments
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by enupten 12y ago
Julia is an awesome language (and about time too!). For those of looking for a more lispy tool, checkout the version of Matlisp I'm writing: https://github.com/enupten/matlisp/wiki

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