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Lisp "Curse" Redemption Arc, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The CONS(applied-langua.ge)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
One of the companies he started, Information International, played a significant role in the history of computer graphics: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/6-3... An interview with Ed Fredk
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by mepian 3y ago
Worked fine for me in Firefox 114.0.2 earlier today. The page runs a VNC session to an emulation server with a fairly low number of available sessions, so it's probably simply busy.
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Computer History Museum: Oral History of Ed Fredkin (2006, pdf)(archive.computerhistory.org)
4 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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Edward Fredkin, ‘visionary’ scientist and fighter pilot, has died(boston.com)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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AMD Announces Plan to Invest $135M to Expand R&D in Ireland(ir.amd.com)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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Xerox PARC's NoteCards in a Nutshell (1987) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
77 points by mepian 3y ago|26 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
"In a history of Smalltalk I wrote for ACM, I characterized one way of looking at languages in this way: a lot of them are either the agglutination of features or they’re a crystallization of style. Languages such as APL, Lisp, and Sma
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by mepian 3y ago
There is a distinction between making a new metalanguage, and making a new embedded language in an existing metalanguage. SICP and others promote the latter, while Arc (from my recollection) was supposed to be the former - the next big meta
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by mepian 3y ago
The mention of Arc really dates it. I'm disappointed that pg moved on from it so quickly, there was a lot of hype around Arc during its conception but now I rarely hear about it even though I follow everything Lisp-related obsessively.
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Symbolics Document Examiner: Delivery Interface for Hypertext Documents (1987) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
It was a popular meme in the gaming community during the Nintendo Wii and DS years. Relevant video: https://youtu.be/5foJ-cwj4Mk
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by mepian 3y ago
Section Seven would benefit from a few more entries: the MIT Scheme chips, the Texas Instruments Explorer II / microExplorer, and the Symbolics Ivory. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731 https:/&#
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by mepian 3y ago
No, this saves the fediverse from repeating the fate of XMPP.
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by mepian 3y ago
"Source-available" is already the established term for this kind of software, not sure what you are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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by mepian 3y ago
For Lisp I would recommend Edi Weitz's CL-PPCRE: https://edicl.github.io/cl-ppcre/ Pretty much anything else from Edi Weitz is also great. Mezzano is quite elegant in my opinion, especially for an operating system
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by mepian 3y ago
Maybe we should stop trying to bury any technology that is not the latest hotness.
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We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says(politico.eu)
11 points by mepian 3y ago|3 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
They already did: https://www.khronos.org/sycl/
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by mepian 3y ago
>“People have talked about technical debt for a long time, and now we have a brand new credit card here that is going to allow us to accumulate technical debt in ways we were never able to do before,” said Armando Solar-Lezama, a profess
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by mepian 3y ago
>the kind that actually works I'm pretty sure computer algebra systems and automatic theorem provers work quite well. The CPU you wrote this comment on was developed using the other kind of AI that supposedly doesn't work: htt
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Why the AI community still needs Lisp (1996)(web.archive.org)
17 points by mepian 3y ago|7 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
I can't find any relevant documentation for Texas Instruments but their prices were in the same ballpark as their primary competitor Symbolics, and you can find them in this document: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/symbo
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The TI (Lisp) Explorer Project(shanen.medium.com)
76 points by mepian 3y ago|32 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
>Is the TI machine in the parent article also a 68000? No, it's a fully custom CPU architecture and implementation, though they could use a 68020 as the "LX" co-processor. Also their primary competitor Symbolics used two 6
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by mepian 3y ago
The monitor and the main unit were supposed to be in different rooms.
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by mepian 3y ago
Jamie Zawinski was using it before working at Netscape: https://archive.is/vzeWI (not linking it directly since he doesn't like it) "Back before the Computing Dark Ages of the Nineties began, I hacked on Lisp Mach
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iOS 17 sideloading and third-party app stores nowhere to be seen despite rumors(imore.com)
1 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
So, does it allow sideloading like macOS, or is it more like iOS in this regard? I hope it's the former since it's literally a Mac SoC inside.
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by mepian 3y ago
Uhhhh, how is Common Lisp COBOL-style?

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