enupten

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   by enupten 13y ago

   Wouldn't it make sense to switch to S-expressions for the underlying expression structure then (or some sort of automorphism between the two) ? You'll have the misfortune of calling yourself a Lisp, but then you'll have more
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   by enupten 13y ago

   It appears that this post seems have been interpreted as questioning the design choice of infix vs prefix. I do think that infix is far easier to deal with, and that the array slicing syntax is a joy; what I meant was more about how picking
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I do agree that infix syntax for math and array manipulation is more sane. This concerns input parsing (and can be taken care of in Common Lisp too - see the infix reader macro), this wasn't the point of my question. Did you find that
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I understand, but those are hardly two conflicting things, are they ? Julia does seem to use some sort of Scheme in their implementation, wouldn't it make sense to allow S-expressions in the language (or is it allowed ?) ? Or maybe, th
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   by enupten 13y ago

   Amen. Reminds me of Rabindranath Tagore's essay on Nationalism. Its really sad how the political interests (and madness) of the minority, governs the lives of common people for centuries afterwards.
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I'm not implying that their expression data structure is in anyway deficient, but given that Julia is so lispy in the first place, why was a design decision made to abandon (the more readable/familiar ?) S-expressions ? Can one of
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   by enupten 13y ago

   Is it just me who is sad for the early demise of what could've been a flourishing democracy in the Middle east (inplace of the silly regime that is now in power) ?
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   by enupten 13y ago

   I'm sure you can say the same thing about the Russians and the Israelis, no ? Oh wait, you can't.
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   by enupten 13y ago

   Do you even see what you've written before you post on the intertube ? This is Hacker news for god's sake ! India has English for its STEM needs; killing of languages because some nuts (including ones in the parliament) dislike di
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    by enupten 13y ago

    I haven't looked into Racket-math, but this post: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-January/0560... makes me wonder if Racket is really up for non-toy numerics. In contrast, SBCL uses tagle
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    by enupten 13y ago

    I agree with the lexical scoping part (explains more or less why I don't use Lush). Its a pity that there aren't any good numerical computing tools in Common Lisp/Scheme. Oh, well.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    I love that Julia does so many things in so Lispy a way. I wish that other languages like Lush received similar amounts of attention.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Wow, there's a Tagore St in Tel Aviv ?
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    by enupten 13y ago

    A few implementations of Common-Lisp (like SBCL) do this already (not surprisingly), and I find it very useful to compile misbehaving programs (and having not being segfaulted upon). Once you verify function behavior with a bunch of test ca
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Why don't all these tech companies form a coalition and release the details together ? The government would never dare going after a dozen companies at once, that would in essence spell doom for Silicon valley (and Obama's liberal
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Wait, you're saying I left India for this!
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    by enupten 13y ago

    What surprised me after coming from India to the US for grad school in Engineering, was the mad emphasis put on grades here. Back home, I either cared enough to do coursework extremely well, or give up on it (the consequences were usually
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Does anybody know how good Common Lisp (one of SBCL, Allegro, Lispworks, CCL) is with multithreading whilst calling the FFI ?
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    by enupten 13y ago

    Yes give the regime more eyes, why don't you.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    There is some truth here; even the militantly dynamic Common lisp has a blisteringly fast implementation (SBCL).
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    by enupten 13y ago

    I don't think someone who went JHU, and was planning on joining MSR, would be, to not put too fine a point, the kind of person you're alluding to.
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    by enupten 13y ago

    That white people are less sane ?
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    People's road in India's far east.(deccanherald.com)

    1 points by enupten 14y ago|0 comments
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    by enupten 14y ago

    .. brought to you by her Majesty's Civil service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
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    by enupten 14y ago

    Sadly, things don't change all that much in Grad school either.