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by eudox 12y ago
>Whereas many in the Common Lisp community will not, no matter what. Common Lisp on the JVM: http://abcl.org/ Common Lisp/Java bridge: http://foil.sourceforge.net/
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by eudox 12y ago
ASDF is the build system, Quicklisp the package manager. QL depends on ASDF.
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by eudox 12y ago
>a lisp programmer might eventually put together a collection of idiosyncratic macros with much of the functionality of Rails, but that wouldn't be a project you could hire someone else to maintain There is, in fact, such a thing as
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by eudox 12y ago
Python's module system is completely broken, but since it's "the best language for learning" many new programmers will never know what's wrong with it.
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by eudox 12y ago
>running code in a REPL won't fix your web app since it's a separate process. In the server you have a script that fires up a Lisp process and starts a Swank[0] server on port whatever. Then the developers, from their own machi
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by eudox 12y ago
In certain ways, the difference between (Common) Lisp and other languages is the difference between Linux and Windows. When you have a fundamental problem in Windows, your only solution is to wait for a fix then reformat/reinstall. Sim
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by eudox 12y ago
>Edit: I see the fascists have discovered my comment. Down vote away. It doesn't change history. I was about to upvote you when I read this. Please don't be so anally frustrated in the future.
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by eudox 12y ago
StumpWM's defaults can be very unusual, I remember the first time I used it was like the first time I tried to use Vim. But after using it for a while, it's become almost unthinkable to drop it for something else. This is in part
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by eudox 12y ago
We can put people on the Moon and smash protons to pieces, but we can't handle apostrophes.
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by eudox 12y ago
Common Lisp version with some extra goodies: https://github.com/tkych/cl-spark
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by eudox 12y ago
Essentially this. Some pointers are null, some are not, and the type system should let you express this.
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by eudox 12y ago
Who in his right mind would actually buy a webcam cover? Just find a piece of paper and fold it over. Good Christ.
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by eudox 12y ago
The worst thing about living in Uruguay is being right next to Them. Now this happens, and we're going to get the fallout.
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by eudox 12y ago
This could be an interesting use case for Common Lisp reader macros.
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Upvoted for CL.
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Your personal alternate realities are not historical precedent.
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by eudox 12y ago
And there are people who sincerely believe cryonics is some sort of weird pipe dream. Can you believe it?
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by eudox 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov Sunlight reflected on clouds, misidentified as the launch of a nuclear missile.
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by eudox 12y ago
I agree in that I don't entirely buy Rust's approach, mostly because of the cognitive overhead that it puts on me, but I don't think it's plausible to think future changes to the compiler (Without the introduction of new
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by eudox 12y ago
They probably use the same heap underneath.
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by eudox 12y ago
I'm afraid the memory management scheme might cause the Nimrod ecosystem to end up with too many libraries that require GC, and since the building blocks are already using it, why not use it yourself? Either make it fully manual, or do
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by eudox 12y ago
Since the tests are relative they should include a script that tests the different frameworks/languages. It shouldn't be too complicated.
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by eudox 12y ago
Thanks for contributing to the gradual destruction of computer science.
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I'm pretty sure it was already done in the Symbolics Lisp Machine.
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by eudox 12y ago
We have this discussion literally every time. Different languages have different conventions and build systems, and packaging a library for every operating system package manager is just not feasible. A single package, for a single package
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by eudox 12y ago
Sometimes I love my job. Sometimes I read posts like this and think I should get a job at a research station in Antarctica so I don't have to watch the collapse of civilization when one of these people convinces banks to switch to Go a
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by eudox 12y ago
>It's the new hotness These people are the reason we are going to spend the next twenty years cleaning up after these two-week fad languages/frameworks.
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by eudox 12y ago
I really think that should be left to nginx or stud or something like that. It's the Unix way, with which I mean, it's less likely someone's going to fuck something up.
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Exact numeric nth derivatives(jliszka.github.io)
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by eudox 12y ago
Related: A huge collections of images showing Symbolics UI and the software written for it: http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples....

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