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by linguae 3y ago
I actually used SICP when teaching a junior-level course on programming language principles and paradigms at San Jose State University, where the introductory language is Java. My students programmed largely in Scheme and Prolog, and they
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by linguae 3y ago
I remember the Web of the 1990s and early 2000s where there were plenty of sites operated by hobbyists and academics that had no ads at all. Of course, there were also e-commerce sites like eBay and Amazon that didn't have ads since t
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by linguae 3y ago
The rise of Chrome in the early 2010s really cut into Firefox's marketshare. This is anecdotal, but I remember Chrome running very fast on my Macs in the early 2010s. It was much faster than Firefox of that era and was quite competit
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by linguae 3y ago
For me, the perfect laptop would have the chassis of a 12” Apple PowerBook G4, but with updated components: a HiDPI display, a modern touchpad, a modern multi core x86-64 or ARM64 processor, support for 32 GB of RAM, support for fast M.2 SS
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by linguae 3y ago
As someone who loves Lisp and PL research in general, I enjoyed reading this article! I'm familiar with the original Scheme papers and I've been slowly reading Compiling with Continuations . It's really cool hearing the pe
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Ask HN: What Were the Differences Between Symbolics Genera and Xerox Interlisp-D
8 points by linguae 3y ago|9 comments
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by linguae 3y ago
There's a lot of preparatory and legal work involved in preparing a proprietary software project for release as an open source project. It's not as simple as just pushing the source tree to GitHub and calling it a day. For examp
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by linguae 3y ago
What makes Symbolics Genera interesting is not the fact it’s a Common Lisp implementation; there’s SBCL, ABCL, and plenty of others. It’s the development environment inside Genera that many users fondly remember and make it stand out even
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by linguae 3y ago
The era when Lisp had its greatest commercial success (the 1980s) was a time when free (as in either beer or speech) high-quality development tools for any language were rare. This was the golden age of proprietary software; people were ex
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by linguae 3y ago
This would be a major development should this come to pass. Even if Genera doesn’t get released under a OSS-compliant license, this will be beneficial for hobbyists and historians (though I don’t know how restrictive non-commercial license
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by linguae 3y ago
There is a similar system in Japan known as the ronbun hakase (which roughly translates to "thesis doctorate", more information can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronbun_hakase [in English] and ht
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by linguae 3y ago
Have you thought about developing an "exit plan"? Face it, while Silicon Valley is an excellent place for software engineers to work on cutting-edge projects that would be difficult to find elsewhere, the high cost of living (esp
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by linguae 3y ago
I am reminded of a story from Alan Kay, who said that an English woman told him, “Americans have the best high school education in the world. It’s a shame they have to go to university to get it.” I could’ve benefited from a more rigorous
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by linguae 3y ago
I've faced similar issues when trying Plan 9, which assumes a three-button mouse and makes heavy use of mouse chording. I had difficulties using my normal mouse wheel USB mice. I ended up purchasing some old Sun USB three-button mice
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by linguae 3y ago
Don’t worry; dating in Japan can be fun, awkward, wild, and much more. My friends and I have our stories. Different cultures just have different scripts.
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by linguae 3y ago
Great article helping to dispel the myth that Apple simply stole the GUI from Xerox. The Lisa and the Mac were truly revolutionary, introducing many GUI concepts that we take for granted today. Another rather interesting Xerox PARC technol
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by linguae 3y ago
It depends on the definition of “nothing.” Typically one would go out on a few dates, typically 3-5, until one of the people (usually the guy, but can sometimes be the woman) confesses. However, any forms of intimacy beyond simple flirtat
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by linguae 3y ago
Lisp isn’t too difficult to learn. The syntax is off-putting to some people, but what helped me adapt to Lisp syntax quickly was my familiarity with RPN calculators; I used an HP graphing calculator in college and I regularly use dc in Uni
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by linguae 3y ago
As an American who spends a lot of time traveling to Japan and who had experience living there (and who has dreams of moving back there once I pay off my student loans), I’ve done this type of confession twice; it’s quite different from the
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by linguae 3y ago
I'm also nostalgic for the early days of personal computing, back then there was more experimentation and when there was a greater sense of wonder about the possibilities. While I feel there are still a lot of exciting advances in oth
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by linguae 3y ago
The film hasn't been released yet. There is a 30-minute version that has been shown at various events, but the final version of the film won't be released until late 2023 or early 2024, as there are still some interviews the dire
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by linguae 3y ago
"Move fast and break things" was originally meant to refer to agile development methodologies that encourages developers to iterate quickly on their implementations and to encourage a development culture where developers are not a
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by linguae 3y ago
I've been thinking about this, too, with teaching being my prime candidate. One of the downsides of leaving the tech industry is the reality of taking a massive pay cut at a time when the cost of living (especially housing) has been r
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by linguae 3y ago
I feel similarly. I've loved computers and programming from an early age, and I was inspired by the stories of researchers like Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Alan Kay, and others. However, after graduate schoo
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by linguae 3y ago
Some of my prized possessions include a collection of NeXT workstations (including a cube), a few classic Macs (the oldest being a Macintosh SE), an HP-48SX graphing calculator, and a Brother word processor I received as a Christmas present
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by linguae 3y ago
“When’s the last time anyone tried to steal design ideas from Microsoft?” I remember a time when Linux desktops were heavily influenced by Windows 95. In fact, the Windows 95 interface still holds up to this day. While certain design elem
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by linguae 3y ago
Exactly. AT&T Unix was the quintessential example of source-available software. Companies and institutions could get licenses for the Unix source code, but they weren’t allowed to redistribute it, and it certainly wasn’t free. If I r
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by linguae 3y ago
Depending on the domain, this can be quite challenging, and the challenge isn't limited to FOSS. The non-business consumer market, particularly the desktop computer software market, is probably the most challenging when it comes to mo
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by linguae 3y ago
The interesting thing is that had OpenDoc took off, the Mac would’ve moved more toward the component-based ecosystem that you describe instead of an ecosystem of monolithic applications: https://youtu.be/oFJdjk2rq4E Alas, O
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by linguae 3y ago
I disagree; I love pre-flat Mac OS X. I think Aero from Windows Vista and 7 was nice (even if I preferred the Windows Classic theme), and GNOME 2 was well-done and consistent if you stuck to applications written using GTK+ 2. I concur that

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