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by lispm 10y ago
Images are not a hack. They allow us to save the state of a program and use it later. My Lisp Machine at home would not even work without it. It's the software the machine boots into. Image dumps are also a useful way to create applica
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by lispm 10y ago
I saw a Commodore PET at that time in a local store. In school I then got access to a Commodore CBM 3032, which was a more robust model of the PET. It had a better keyboard, for example. Booted into BASIC, too.
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by lispm 10y ago
Clojure has a primitive repl by default with lots of Java shining through. It has no image dumping. No restarts. Hot code loading is limited. Clojure even has no interpreter.
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by lispm 10y ago
Clojure borrows from C++, C#, Common Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Mathematica, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Java, Racket, Ruby - according to Wikipedia. I would guess that 10% of its operator names come from Lisp. Okay, that's a wild guess. Let'
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by lispm 10y ago
> AIM-349 describes scheme as "essentially a full-funarg LISP That's long ago. That was kind of true in the mid 70s. > and no compatability with Racket is ridiculus CL has no Racket compatibility. Zero. Racket has no CL comp
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by lispm 10y ago
Really? You must be really good at Clojure. Then you can explain this: user=> (list 1 2 3) (1 2 3) user=> (list? (list 1 2 3)) true so (1 2 3) is a list. user=> (cons 0 (list 1 2 3)) (0 1 2 3) use
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by lispm 10y ago
Depends what you call 'port' and 'emacs'. Common Lisp already has some native variants of Emacs. Though not GNU Emacs. The first one was called Hemlock and was developed in the early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.
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by lispm 10y ago
Good luck reading Thomas Mann or Hermann Hesse in German... Any modern fiction. No chance.
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by lispm 10y ago
Apple IIe and IIc. A friend's father had an IIe and I got a IIc for myself, later.
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by lispm 10y ago
People who can speak German dialects can understand each other. Books written in some form of German can be understood by most readers. Same for English dialects. For Germanic languages this is not the case. English and German are both Germ
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by lispm 10y ago
Maclisp came from Lisp 1.5. Code was simply ported to Maclisp. Some Lisp 1.5 code runs mostly unchanged in CL. Maclisp shared code with Common Lisp. For a lot of stuff there was a single code base at MIT for several Lisp dialects, including
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by lispm 10y ago
Mezzano would be an OS on top of a language/runtime for a programming language which allows flexible development from low-level up to high-level (CLOS/MOP). One could experiment with different OS models, which would be integrating
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by lispm 10y ago
temacs is just an intermediate build step, while building GNU Emacs. There is no working GNU Emacs without the C and the Elisp code.
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by lispm 10y ago
I think we have to get rid of the idea that any language with parentheses is a Lisp. For all practical purposes languages like Scheme, Lisp, Clojure are fully incompatible on all levels: syntax, semantics and pragmatics. All they share are
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by lispm 10y ago
GNU Emacs is written in C and Emacs Lisp. Much of the editor functionality is implemented in Emacs Lisp, while the Emacs Lisp runtime (plus some libs and some external tools) is written C. Many/most Lisp systems have a runtime written
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by lispm 10y ago
A better example would be ScoreCloud, developed using LispWorks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7axvT4fkF4 It's a real end-user applications that has nothing to do with programming. The user does not see Lisp and doe
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by lispm 10y ago
In 2016 Visual Lisp is still supported for AutoCAD http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=... and their Lisp forum looks busy: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lis
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by lispm 10y ago
That's all complete bullshit. The North Sea coast, where I live here in Germany 100km away, has always seen floods and violent storms. Additionally there are floods from heavy rains in the Elbe region. I live in such a region, where su
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by lispm 10y ago
> there are no external threats and 0 chance of environmental disaster (Germany doesn't get floods and hurricanes etc.) - it speaks to a terrorist threat. You have no idea what you are talking about. Germany has floods, snow storms,
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by lispm 10y ago
I don't.
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by lispm 10y ago
> It causes difficulties when you want to reason rigorously about your code That's what he said. In practice it doesn't matter.
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by lispm 10y ago
for what expression does the line break stand, exactly?
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by lispm 10y ago
What about all those superfluous commas? I also dislike languages where expressions don't have visible bounds.
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by lispm 10y ago
In CL without the need for destructuring: (setf (values a b c) (values 10 20 30))
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by lispm 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_GmbH
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by lispm 10y ago
Curly braces? The language was called 'Curl'. ;-) http://www.curl.com
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by lispm 10y ago
The Connection Machine had some cool art and animation usage. Karl Sims developed an art installation using algorithms to evolve images based on user selections. It was to see for example in Paris at the Centre Pompidou. As you can see on h
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by lispm 10y ago
While we are at it: Connection Machine CM-2 Technical Summary (PDF) http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/Connection... The Essential StarLisp Manual, with Programming Examples for the Connection
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by lispm 10y ago
> Apparently Emacs thinks all full-line comments in lisp should start with ';;'. Not exactly. ;; aligns to the current indentation level of the code. It's a usual Lisp indenting convention. The Emacs Lisp manual recommends
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by lispm 10y ago
I find it very handy and use it all the time. Luckily there are LOOP versions for Scheme and Racket as well: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/loop https://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=

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