lispy

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   by lispy 19y ago

   This is what happens when a mediocre programmer reads too many Paul Graham essays, hacks his way through a couple of sections of SICP, and shamelessly rips off Peter Norvig's code in chapter 2 of PAIP. Kids these days.... ;)
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   Startups: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings...(ondisruption.com)

   1 points by lispy 19y ago|0 comments
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   Accept a position as "Lead Developer"?

   1 points by lispy 19y ago|2 comments
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   by lispy 19y ago

   ...But more than likely just reinvent something that Guy Steele wrote a paper on in the seventies. ^_^
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   by lispy 19y ago

   This is an exercise that's being done just for the fun of it to explore what (for me) were cryptic remarks from people like Graham and Norvig. I wanted to work on something that would force me to write macros. Obviously, to make the code f
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   by lispy 19y ago

   Yes, the its the feature of closures that is important, and so much not the particular language that it's implemented in. (As Mark Jason Dominus said, "In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language with