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by jhuni 14y ago
Is it "clearly" a personal attack even though there is a question mark there?
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by jhuni 14y ago
The name of this language immediately made me think of the blocky.io ( http://blocky.io/ ) visual programming language, which was written in Common Lisp by David O'Toole before this language was developed. Blocky.io is very similar to thi
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by jhuni 14y ago
Ah yes, the good old "dictatorship" of the proletariat which introduces "despotic" inroads in order to create a communist utopia. For example, the Eastern bloc countries were "dictatorial" and "despotic" because they were never communist.
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by jhuni 14y ago
A quick note on sigils: recently I have been thinking that the dollar sign sigil could be used to denote place forms such that $_ is the top place form. Any place form could be cast into a function to be used on any object, for example you
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by jhuni 14y ago
The Common Lisp identifier names are the only standard I need. For my own personal use, I am not going to accept anything other then the Lisp naming conventions, which use lower case characters separated by dashes for identifiers. As such
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by jhuni 14y ago
To what 'bit' do you refer? Do you have a direct quote?
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by jhuni 14y ago
The sun burned fuel for billions of years well there was no one around whatsoever.
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by jhuni 14y ago
> He's still missing the point. If you read him carefully I think you will find that isn't the case. Much of a professional programmer's time is spent mindlessly debugging crapware, in other words, code plumbing. Plumbing is a separat
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by jhuni 14y ago
In Perl 6 - is the infix minus operator and a valid delimiter.
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by jhuni 14y ago
Use dashes for separators like in Lisp.
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by jhuni 14y ago
> Is it acceptable to wish Mr. Stallman well in light of allegations that he has advocated for truly awful practices? He never actually advocated pedophilia, so what awful practices are you saying that he advocates?
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by jhuni 14y ago
> Why not just do relational programming - prolog or sql. The lisp weenies still don't get it. John McCarthy was the first to recommend using logic in programs with his advice taker proposal. This inspired the logic programming paradi
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by jhuni 14y ago
> Python and Ruby both don't have that. Python and Ruby have first class functions, garbage collection, dynamic typing, and many other advanced dynamic features, so there is definitely a similarity between them and Lisp. However, the
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by jhuni 14y ago
> People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. The one true language is mathematics. John McCarthy (a math professor) discovered that programs could be represented as out degree one directed graphs (cons cells) th
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by jhuni 14y ago
> I've no complaint with this, but it leads to the mistaken impression that great applications are written in dynamic languages. They aren't. Great prototypes are written in dynamic languages, but the lasting replacement will be writte
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by jhuni 14y ago
> I really don't get this hype about lisp-like languages. Well for one thing some of us having been using Lisp for a very, very long time. I have personally been using it for years so it seems like the most natural thing to me at this
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by jhuni 14y ago
Microsoft's relative power over the computing industry has been in decline for several years now.
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by jhuni 14y ago
I don't think the Cute programming language is ready to be used as a first time target for developers yet. Try scheme.
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by jhuni 14y ago
> So let’s build more bullet trains The Earth's axial supercontent, Eurasia, is ideally suited to train transport. China has ambitious and innovative plans to build a Eurasian rail network capable of transporting people from Beijing to
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by jhuni 14y ago
Here are some relevant papers from Henry Baker on garbage collection: Lively Linear Lisp -- 'Look Ma, No Garbage! http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html NREVERSAL of Fortune[1] -- The Thermodynamics of Garbage Collection http:
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by jhuni 14y ago
There are many of us. PHP powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. There is a difference between the web and the internet. The Internet is powered by computer networking hardware, on the on the other
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by jhuni 15y ago
I am so glad that I am a Lisper. I haven't dealt with issues of text file size or syntactic standards for at least a year.
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by jhuni 15y ago
I use Lisp, so the answer to your question is yes. I do use parenthesis in all cases.
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by jhuni 15y ago
>JavaScript has its bad parts, but it's nowhere near as bad as PHP in its bad parts. I am not familiar with any precise quantification of the bad parts of JavaScript and PHP which could serve as a basis of that conclusion. That said, bo
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by jhuni 15y ago
JavaScript was rushed to the market in a few weeks so it is also a fractal of bad parts, for example, the == operator sucks just like in PHP, the + operator is used for both addition and concatenation, semicolon insertion has an unintuitive
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by jhuni 15y ago
I would pose a harsher criticism against Haskell then the one posed in this article. I believe that logical relations are a better foundation for declarative programming then functions. As such, even when it comes to declarative programming
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by jhuni 15y ago
The speed of light (c) is the cosmic speed limit.
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by jhuni 15y ago
Why build a programming language in a language other then Lisp?
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by jhuni 15y ago
There are many impressive Lisp dialects which aren't mentioned here like Mark Tarver's Shen programming language and John Stutts Kernel programming language, so I am just going to vote for Lisp which hopefully covers most of these dialects.
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by jhuni 15y ago
I would teach it like this: (/ (- (sqrt (discriminant a b c)) b) (* 2 a))

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