mroll

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by mroll 11y ago
The point isn't that eval or fexprs are good to use all over the place. It's interesting as an exercise in language design to see what is possible when they are available. And to the fact that fexprs operate on second class data.
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by mroll 11y ago
but not a macro in the sense Common Lisp knows them... FEXPRs are first class objects. FEXPRs can be passed around as values of variables, whereas macros cannot
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by mroll 11y ago
Lisp as the idea has no syntax. Racket is a dialect of that idea, and the authors have decided to add syntax.
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by mroll 11y ago
> I really dislike the idea that programming languages have "commands" I guess you would really hate tcl, then. Everything is a command.
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by mroll 11y ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but I know a lot of people, myself included, who have the patience to roast a golden brown marshmallow. I've only heard good things about Sandberg, but that seemed like a really weak anecdote to
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by mroll 11y ago
> If you quit your day job, you’ll most likely fill your schedule with low-value activities to put in a regular workweek and feel the pressure to build or sell too early. This is too broad a generalization. Yes, some people will not spen
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by mroll 11y ago
I like a lot of the stuff you brought up about what separates poker from other seemingly similar strategy games. Like the aspect of real cash, which makes the emotional stakes and ability to remain rational more important.
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by mroll 11y ago
One problem that immediately stands out to me is how sweaty everyone would be. I'm in shape but riding around a city on a hot day would have me drenched.
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by mroll 11y ago
A significant part of this feat is programming computers to understand text. Ironic that there are two typos in the first column of text in the paper.