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   by lispm 10y ago

   Basically 'Relational Lisp' won. Just three hours development time.
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   by lispm 10y ago

   > why German companies aren't moving their production to cheaper markets German companies ARE moving their production to cheaper markets. They have been doing this for decades and they are doing it today. At the same time the market
3. 3273.▲
   by lispm 10y ago

   > has the largest low-wage sector in Europe . That's easy, since Germany is also the largest country in Europe (not counting Russia), has the largest number of employees, has a lot of people from East Europe coming for work, ... The
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   by lispm 10y ago

   Now you have to show that the 'hidden champions' the author talks about are using 'wage suppression'. Actually the midsize manufacturing companies offer long-term employment, fair wages, jobs in rural areas, jobs which r
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   by lispm 10y ago

   > Germany couldn't run its huge trade surplus without its currency appreciating The Euro policy is not German monetary policy. Germany has always asked for a harder currency policy. Germany also had a huge trade surplus long before
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   by lispm 10y ago

   No, but the Common Lisp of 1984 has much of the Lisp of 1960. It's backwards compatible in many ways.
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   by lispm 10y ago

   > Even if you convince me these two languages are so different, there's nothing here to convince me Common Lisp deserves the title of the "real Lisp" or "true Lisp" It's the lineage of Lisps where Common Lis
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   by lispm 10y ago

   Actually I write Lisp code, but I use neither Paredit nor SmartParens. I don't automatically balance my parentheses.
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   by lispm 10y ago

   Hmm, my editor does it for me. Wait, even Lisp does that for me, because it has a built-in source code pretty printer: Call the pretty printer to format this mess: CL-USER 41 > (let ((*print-case* :downcase)) (pprint '(def
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    by lispm 10y ago

    > You have to use an editor where "copy" is called "Kill-ring-save" is invoked with "Meta-w" You are misinformed. I'm using a GNU Emacs (-> Aquamacs) on the Mac and cut/paste/copy are invok
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    by lispm 10y ago

    How do you think Boeing then will sell a single aircraft in Europe?
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    by lispm 10y ago

    prog + goto was two decades one of the main tools for loops in Lisp...
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    by lispm 10y ago

    > When I need to change the inputs or outputs of a function, I have no idea if I've done it correctly or not; due to the lack of type checking. Well, the good news is Common Lisp has runtime types and some implementations even suppo
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    by lispm 10y ago

    This Lisp I code is from 1959/60. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/rle_lis... Page 101: DEFINE (((COLLAPSE,(LAMBDA,(L),(COND,((ATOM,L),(CONS,L,NIL)), ((NULL,(CDR,L)),(COND,((
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    by lispm 10y ago

    That's a step up from loops with 'goto': (prog ((result '()) (i 0)) loop (when (>= i 5) (return (reverse result))) (when (evenp i) (push i result)) (incf i)
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    by lispm 10y ago

    On a Symbolics you can add swap space files when there is an out-of-memory error. If you find some disk space somewhere (possibly after deleting some unused junk), create a swap file, add it and continue.
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    by lispm 10y ago

    Fake news. I haven't downvoted your post above. If you claim that the EU is ruled by Germany, the refugee crisis has clearly shown the opposite. Most countries did not follow German policies. Actually the press in Germany talked about
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    by lispm 10y ago

    > The current generation has an university enrollment rate of about 50%. Enrollment does not mean that they get a degree. That's simply a different number.
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    by lispm 10y ago

    Germany does not rule the EU, so this remark is silly.
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    by lispm 10y ago

    The ultimate goal of the EU is to promote peace and collaboration in Europe.
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    by lispm 10y ago

    https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...
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    by lispm 10y ago

    > Why Germany Educates International Students for Free One thing to remember: That university education may not be that expensive does not mean everybody is allowed to study. Universities often set high barriers. In Germany 27% of young
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    by lispm 10y ago

    I don't believe a word.
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    by lispm 10y ago

    But there is need for an update of the Common Lisp standard. There are lots of improvements needed without creating a new language. There are different implementations for various extensions and one needs to standardize them, instead of pro
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    by lispm 10y ago

    > hasn't incorporated any of the Computer Science learnings and advancements somehow I fear that this is a good thing
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    by lispm 10y ago

    Monads?
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    by lispm 10y ago

    I smell fear of macros. A macro is just another function, but it does some code transformation. The code base will not explode, the world will not stop revolving, just because a few macros. I use LispWorks, which adds a few hundred macros (
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    by lispm 10y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system The German dual education system addresses this. Normal jobs have a formal education system where young people learn practical things in companies and at the same tim
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    by lispm 10y ago

    Instead of blogs people used to publish/discuss on mailing lists: http://ml.cddddr.org
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    by lispm 10y ago

    Let's not forget Lisp I. Lisp I Programmer's Manual, 1960, Page 67 > ... that immediately after all the triplets have been > evaluated the state of the memory as it stands is read out > onto tape 8 as the new &quo