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by isr 5y ago
This may sound like a facetious reply (its not intended as such!), because what I'm suggesting is itself a self-programmable (from the outside-to-in, as opposed to emacs/vim from the inside-to-out) almost "live" environm
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by isr 5y ago
Posting a bit late to this thread, but anyway (this snakeoil salesman really ticks me off, so ...) The writer in question is infamous for making ridiculously bombastic claims about smalltalk which only serve to put off potential new-entrant
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by isr 5y ago
> I just wish there was a Tcl that was redesigned from a modern perspective. Give me first-class lambdas. Give me unnamed objects that get destroyed automatically (with a callback) when out of scope[1] so I don’t have to use a weird name
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by isr 5y ago
Why not ask the local Klu Klux Klan chapter in your neighbourhood? They have a "fine" tradition of conducting such hikes. Most recent example - Charlottesville?
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by isr 5y ago
Fascinating, I had no idea. I blithely assumed that pijul was just a rewrite of darcs. Off to check on pijul again ... :-)
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by isr 5y ago
Is oforth still being developed?
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by isr 5y ago
pijul (successor to darcs) looks very interesting (I like the darcs model of using patches rather than the entire source tree as the object being versioned) ... What would be REALLY interesting would be someone taking a snapshot-happy copy-
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by isr 5y ago
Gauche scheme is a very "scripting-focussed" implementation, with some niceties inspired from scsh. I've used it's repl as a shell of sorts for a short while, just to see if I could. Janet is a new lisp (heavily inspired
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by isr 5y ago
No, it isn't. There is 1 version. This myth keeps getting proposed by, quite frankly, anti-Muslim bigots of various types and persuasions, across the centuries. It has been repeatedly debunked. And you will get the same answer from any
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by isr 5y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on this? Not arguing, genuinely interested ...
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by isr 5y ago
This doesn't address the dynamic vs static typing issue you brought up, but for the rest, you may be interested in exploring guix. Guix is essentially a reimplementation of nix packaging system using a pre-existing language - guile sch
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by isr 5y ago
To complement the Pharo recommendation, I would also recommend cuis smalltalk. It also forked from squeak, but went on an aggressive diet, shedding much complexity in the base image, and modularising (using git) much of the rest. Smalltalk
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by isr 5y ago
Thank YOU for taking the TIME and EFFORT to attempt to OUTLAW the BARBARIC PRACTICE of using capital letters in written communications, to convey a slightly ELEVATED tone. Err ... oops ... ;-)
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by isr 5y ago
IMHO, the claim that pharo is not smalltalk is, to put it bluntly, nonsense. Yes, I understand that Pharo may well eventually change the some semantics of the underlying language, or at least reserves the right to do so. Fine, call it &quot
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by isr 5y ago
I've read the English translation of that book. Quite simply, the best history of those wars (which could be called the real First World War, if anyone thought to name it as such), period. Hands down. Strongly recommended!
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by isr 5y ago
I don't know if you mentioned scrollbars as a rhetorical argument, or literally. But if the latter, then ... (queue rant) ... What? Even scrollbars? Shows just how broken, regressive and anti-innovation the US Patent system is. Its par
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by isr 5y ago
As someone who used Gentoo for over a decade, including in production environments - I disagree. Its a falsehood pushed by old 80's thinking. It sounds nice, in theory. In practice, what you often get are bugfix patches blindly applied
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by isr 5y ago
> A woman cannot divorce a man A blatant lie. False. Untrue. As I said, you're just a flat-earther. The real joke is that you're probably unaware of what Islam actually teaches, nor what the law is in practice. You're just
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by isr 5y ago
You're deluded. As someone with experience of more than a few Muslim countries, I can categorically say that nothing you're trying to paint has any semblence to reality. You're pretending that a woman who divorces and remarri
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by isr 5y ago
More nonsense. There are the usual male-female dynamics at play in any relationship, but this constant falsehood being propogated here about how Islam denies these rights is not just misleading, its the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of the truth. I rep
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by isr 5y ago
> We’ll ignore for a second she got a divorce which would also have her beheaded in the Koran What utter, complete, made-up nonsense. Islam guarantees women the right to divorce (along with property rights, pre-nuptial contracts, etc). Y
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by isr 5y ago
Typing this response on a Gemini, from Planet Computers. Essentially, its a vanilla smartphone, with an updated version of the Psion Series 5 keyboard bolted on (designed by the same chap who did the original). If you look online, you'
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by isr 5y ago
As someone who quite likes joe (especially its integrated shell - quite appealing to an acme user), may I ask ... Why oh why doesn't it implement proper soft line wrapping???
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by isr 5y ago
The comment I was responding was specifically talking about "hating" Muslims & Islam. You're talking about criticising with arguments (using Christianity and a quote). The arguments may be bunk (taking a quote out of cont
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by isr 5y ago
Hating people for their ethnicity, or hating people for their religion - both seem to come from the same cesspool of ignorance and impotent rage (you're angry about something else, but resign yourself to picking on another group to ven
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by isr 6y ago
I believe that on (some?) Intel 11th gen chips, S3 sleep states are disabled, and only S1 works? S3 = traditional "suspend to ram" S1 = new fangled "kind of sleep, instant on mode" At least, thats what I found on a Syste
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by isr 6y ago
Hmm, I would disagree with this (quite strongly). Not that tcl doesn't have misfeatures (of course it does), but that `upvar` or `uplevel` are one of them. Those commands effectively make any tcl function be able to operate as an f-exp
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by isr 6y ago
Honestly, thats just nonsense ... Anyone who wants to try out gobolinux for real would at least do some basic reading first. Its that distinct a distro that you kind of have to, and no problems with that. Not everything innovative can be ex
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by isr 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Its a build-from-source system. Akin to ports, or emerge. Where they do the fetching of sources, compiling and installing of global symlinks for you. No, it doesn't write your config fi
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by isr 6y ago
One of the "first-class-links" on the top of the homepage explains their build-from-source manager: https://gobolinux.org/recipes.html Might have been a good idea to just click on that, first? FWIW, they used to h

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