la4ry

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by la4ry 3y ago
The question asked was about the differences between the two software systems in the past. From that perspective the two systems had very different objectives and target audiences. Interlisp-D was focused on ease of use, the GUI, incrementa
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by la4ry 3y ago
you can run it now: https://notecards.online
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by la4ry 3y ago
LTAND established a petition system where passed petitions could then be implemented by a "wizard". A character named Grump wrote a petition trying to establish a way of moderating content and actions using "Arbitration"
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by la4ry 4y ago
I suspect the tales of "Do what Warren Means" are apocryphal. We're now used to the idea of wasting CPU cycles to compute possible completions of user entries. DWIM was just ahead -- and a way of deciding "conservative g
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by la4ry 4y ago
small correction: Medley online.interisp.org doesn't run IN the browser -- it's running on a Linux-based Docker container with AWS. You can also install it on your linux, macos, windows (with WSL or ...) and other computer/o
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by la4ry 4y ago
https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/issues/920
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by la4ry 4y ago
Things are fairly solid if you install on your own machine... online wasn't stress tested for the kind of load a 'top hacker news' would attract.
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by la4ry 4y ago
There's a ton of material you can read up on at https://interlisp.org . We're still looking for helpers. https://github.com/Interlisp
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2021 Medley Interlisp Annual Report(docs.google.com)
3 points by la4ry 5y ago|0 comments
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by la4ry 5y ago
Of historical interest was Interlisp-D as a system that did structure editing and version management. it was at the beginning of time so getting it to work again as a practical development environment is a lot of work. https://gi
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by la4ry 6y ago
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRXr79RIRkRr... for slides. https://interlisp.org for more info.