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by lukego 4y ago
PPP matters though. There probably aren't many yoga teachers in Italy spending €3000 per month on rent. Switzerland can be a nice place for people to work hard when they are young and then move back home to start a family (or business.
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by lukego 4y ago
I have one of these with a Nvidia GPU and my complaint is that the fan runs hard all the time while driving a pair of 4K displays (one HDMI and one USBC.) Drives me nuts.
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by lukego 4y ago
My favourite piece of software these days. Have been using it on NixOS. Seems rock solid even with all the GPU features (but switched from Radeon to Nvidia to make that easy.) Got a "free" Studio license with the Speed Editor htt
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by lukego 5y ago
I was lamenting this the other day, thinking of Smalltalk being able to snapshot the stack and store it in a variable for debugging later. Then it occurred that one should be able to write a Lisp function that creates a data structure conta
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by lukego 5y ago
Likewise. The core language is pretty amazing and this steady stream of improvements is very impressive and reassuring. Being able to easily install, run, and combine bleeding-edge research tools is fantastic. I'm really enjoying explo
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by lukego 5y ago
I'll concede that there seems to be a lot of work done on this in Julia that I'm not aware of. Thank you for the references, I'll check them out and then gladly concede the rest the next time this topic comes up.
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by lukego 5y ago
Yeah. This forum doesn't seem like the best place to have the discussion, alas. Maybe the corner of a room at JuliaCon with a few Lisp refugees one day :). Coming from a Lisp background Julia fits like a glove in the beginning but some
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by lukego 5y ago
This is a binary view of development-verses-production. I appreciate languages that treat this as a continuum and let me make my own trade-offs. Common Lisp, Smalltalk, and Erlang all treat the process as running indefinitely. This gives th
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by lukego 5y ago
I really wonder how this compares with modern Smalltalk environments like GToolkit? Are Smalltalkers of today living the Lisp Machine dream here and now? (Should Lisp programmers pining for the Symbolics era put aside their parenthesis and
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by lukego 5y ago
Also, right before Swing was Netscape IFC, based on NeXT (IIUC), which ran like greased lightning in comparison. I'm not sure which UI VisualAge Java used but I remember that working much better than the median Java program too.
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by lukego 5y ago
There was one cohesive tribe in the 00s centered around the quasi-annual European Common Lisp Meeting. I miss that and wish I could find the same thing again now. Maybe it exists somewhere online? The ELS community is still going strong. Th
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by lukego 5y ago
Forth is an interesting case. It's really unproductive to build complex systems with. If you try, you will probably be frustrated. Instead it forces you to try really hard to find a cheating short-cut to solve the problem as few moving
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by lukego 5y ago
Buffer-local variables are also underrated. There's another universe where this context-switching between objects is what we call "OO" instead of Smalltalk/Self style.
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by lukego 5y ago
Similar to variable capture with dynamic scope e.g. in classical Emacs Lisp? That's been the root cause of a bug for me exactly once in years of Emacs hacking, and having finally been bitten my radar detects that risk going forward. So
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by lukego 5y ago
Norvig's PAIP is what won me over from Scheme to Common Lisp. https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
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by lukego 5y ago
It's really neat that you did this :) Of course you will never please everyone, especially in the extremely heterogeneous Common Lisp community, but I think it looks sharp.
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by lukego 5y ago
Yeah I was really excited expecting to see m68k Amiga code. Oh well, maybe next time!
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by lukego 5y ago
I'm in the opposite situation. I setup a Minecraft server and outsourced the hard work to my kids. They are toiling away for a couple of hours most days building all kinds of elaborate structures. I just drop in to say a few words of a
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by lukego 5y ago
I used Kawa as a "Clojure" of sorts about 20 years ago. Extending Java applications in Scheme. Worked really well, great implementation.
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by lukego 5y ago
Hey what's a good way to engage with Roblox? My 6-7yo kids love it but I don't see them doing anything creative as they do with e.g. Minecraft. maybe they are just playing it wrong?
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by lukego 5y ago
Nevertheless, there are probably more Smalltalk programmers today - and indeed Common Lisp programmers - than there ever have been before. Saying that nobody uses Smalltalk seems a bit like saying that nobody lives in Norway.
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by lukego 5y ago
My favourite take on "computer science" is from George Forsythe who founded Stanford's computer science department in the 1960s. He didn't seem to be embarrassed to put the computer into computer science. Excerpt from h
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by lukego 5y ago
I consider Serapeum to be a revamp of the Common Lisp standard: https://github.com/ruricolist/serapeum/blob/master/REFERENCE... . This provides a bunch of new features and idioms including ideas borrowed
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by lukego 5y ago
That must be someone else. The Emacs backend is the first one I'm working on.
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by lukego 5y ago
> Luke Gorrie is working on an Emacs McCLIM backend This works quite well now. If anyone wants to try it the installation instructions are at https://gist.github.com/lukego/0b74b94492066ae2b8c2a12b18e84... .
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by lukego 5y ago
The surprise for me, working on the Emacs backend for McCLIM, is that CLIM is actually a lot simpler than it seems. The CLIM specification is overwhelming. The Lispworks and Franz user manuals for CLIM are too. There are just too many conce
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by lukego 5y ago
Congratulations! I remember trying it out 22 years ago and in retrospect I did not appreciate what a young language it must have been :)
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by lukego 5y ago
Design rules in CAD software? I know that Cadence's ASIC design tools are based on a custom Lisp dialect. I've seen a presentation at a Lisp conference from an architect who was representing myriad building regulations as Lisp exp
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by lukego 5y ago
He's talking in measured terms about his own personal experience on his own personal vlog. It was probably cathartic for him (and for other people too.) No big deal.
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by lukego 6y ago
Yeah this is great right! We stumbled on Halley's Comet at the local science museum here in Skövde and it'll really spice up travel around Sweden for the kids a bit.

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