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1. 3961.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   > It's implementation dependent so you have to know your compiler well. In any larger application you have to know your compiler and the special libraries well. GCC, CLANG, whatever... SBCL is kind of large. Other open source Common
2. 3962.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Honestly, your posting does not make sense. > Their "data protection" is circumvented by the newly introduces complete data retention for police purposes. This has never been introduced. > Websites are completely unusable du
3. 3963.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   > It's easy to forget that the German re-unification wasn't simply two countries merging together. It's not. The Bundesrepublik Deutschland took over what was once the GDR. > While the US and its closer allies limited t
4. 3964.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Germany was struggling with the reunification, having added 20 Million people from a collapsed country, the German Democratic Republic. That was difficult enough. Currently there are no special labor restrictions for EU citizens in Germany.
5. 3965.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Copying is much easier than inventing.
6. 3966.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Says the dwarf standing on the shoulder of giants: McCarthy, Steele, Gabriel, Fahlman, Weinreb, Moon, Stallman, Bobrow, Greenblatt, Moses, Norvig, Sussman, Brooks, Masinter, Pitman, White, ... The all have been working on useful Lisps...
7. 3967.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   There is quite a bit of (non-university) educational use of Lisp variants in education. See Logo and Scheme. There are lots of publications about this topic.
8. 3968.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Though Common Lisp 'packages' are not really 'modules', they are namespaces for symbols. Common Lisp does not really hide things. It also does not allow fine grained control of interfaces: the class FOO and the function
9. 3969.▲
   by lispm 11y ago

   Lisp does not have 'equals' and 'equals?'. Lisp has 'eq', which is for object identity. Lisp has 'equal' which checks for structural equality.
10. 3970.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Since Clojure is not a Lisp in the narrow sense, this is a useless question. If Lisp means something broad, then we would list very different languages: Logo, Dylan, Julia, R, Javascript, Racket, ACL2, ... - again that would be a useless q
11. 3971.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Not 'had', 'have'.
12. 3972.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Lisps without GC have been used in various places for delivery. An example was Thinlisp, which tries to be mostly compatible with Common Lisp, but without GC. The compiler for Thinlisp is written in Common Lisp. G2's Gensym is written
13. 3973.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Symbolics.com was the first .com domain. > Which he personally did not like at all due to its role in suppressing use of Macsyma outside of its machines. Symbolics offered Macsyma on other platforms. Anyway Hillis' problems with Sym
14. 3974.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    There is a discussion group at Apple where lots of people seem to have the same problem with various different USB audio devices.
15. 3975.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    I fear that this is one of the worse OSX updates. I've seen a lot of issues in the GM. For example my USB audio device (an amplifier) is no longer working. The Wifi connectivity issues are not fixed. The Airdrop connection between my M
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    by lispm 11y ago

    > It's been widely suspected (but, likely due to corruption, ignored) that emissions and fuel consumption tests are outright manipulated. This is widely discussed here in Germany for some years now, but the government chose not to
17. 3977.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    and I thought hacking the diesel engine is coal, I mean, cool: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos...
18. 3978.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    I don't think Clojure is a Lisp. iT's just another Lisp inspired language. Again, zero code of the past fifty+ years of Lisp runs in Clojure. iT is fully incompatible with any Lisp dialect. It shares zero lines of code. Don't
19. 3979.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    > Conses are different in newlisp, but it certainly does have linked lists These are different. newlisp seems to have a list cell, which then points to linked content cells. A mechanism which is different from any other Lisp dialect.
20. 3980.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    > To be honest, I'm not sure what point you are making. I'll repeat it for you: Lisp dialects are defined by a common core language. Newlisp does not have that core language. Even if it uses the same name for functionality, it
21. 3981.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    It isn't. Newlisp shares that not much with McCarthy's Lisp. newlisp does not even have linked lists, it has a different evaluation model, ..., no GC. Languages like Standard Lisp, Franz Lisp, ISLisp, Eulisp, Emacs Lisp, Visual Li
22. 3982.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Ever heard of Lisp 1.5, UCI Lisp, MacLisp, ISLisp, New Implementation of Lisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, Standard Lisp ,Franz Lisp, Emacs Lisp, ISLisp, Autolisp, Visual Lisp, and many many other Lisp dialects? Notice something? These all have Lisp
23. 3983.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Why would I call a 'new' language 'Lisp' when it can't run a single line of Lisp code from the past 50 years? Give it a different name. Not every random language which happens to use parentheses in some way needs to
24. 3984.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    I used a Symbolics 3600 much more memory, 4MWords IIRC. My own 3640 has 4MWord. A word was 36 bits wide. > So they were roughly comparable in memory capacity. Sure not: you could use a 3600 with 20 MB RAM and 150 MB virtual memory.
25. 3985.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    Symbolics used an object-database for that.
26. 3986.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    I think he is talking about something different. The difference is like this: A 5 dollar plastic keyboard vs. a handmade $1000+ keyboard with mechanical switches. The very first Lisp Machines were handmade $100000 pieces of hardware. With w
27. 3987.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    I was not talking about CCL. CCL is also not dead.
28. 3988.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    > Franz LISP on Sun 2 machines for real work. The SUN 2 was a tiny machine in comparison. 1 MB RAM, 4 MB max. 16MB virtual memory. > Sun 2 was a 680x0 machine The Symbolics 3600 was also a 680x0 machine. ;-) It used one as its fronten
29. 3989.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    You could read the chapters on memory management and GC in the Symbolics Genera 8 manuals: areas, generations, resources, ephemeral GC, generational copying GC, full GC, ... http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf&#
30. 3990.▲
    by lispm 11y ago

    > Your Lisp code (unless it's an emacs tool) will never work with anything or anyone else. I wonder how the Lisp I'm using got its Cocoa user interface. Oh, it has an Objective C bridge, so that it can create natively looking M