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by nibbula 7y ago
I find it surprising that the fellow that coined the word POSIX, agreed to censoring the POSIX_ME_HARDER variable. It's also surprising that the first version of bash committed source code suicide via a bug in globbing, which makes it&
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by nibbula 7y ago
Thanks, Don, for continuing to stand for truth in a energetic and entertaining manner.
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by nibbula 7y ago
As a Lisp programmer, the way most other languages handle errors make me cringe. How could I even make a decent ice cream sundae without error recovery ? But I do enjoy that 'make a Lisp' is a like a sport in every other language
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by nibbula 8y ago
One may be skeptical that a dog can solve differential equations better than an accomplished mathematician, but it is none the less true. Likewise it is easy to doubt that the spiritual enlightenment of a human has discerned a profound trut
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by nibbula 8y ago
So, your intuition about time being a illusion is "correct". But in such a context, most other "universal" properties are also an "illusion". Not in a philosophical way, but in a tangible, soon to be practical
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by nibbula 9y ago
I'm quite thankful that we don't have to worry about the syntactic position of comments, and the wise folks of CL, as you may know, made it so that saving comment text can be as easy as: (defparameter *comments* nil) (defun
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by nibbula 9y ago
Yes. As a Lisp programmer I've almost forgotten that I should be thankful to be able to say something as simple as: (defun button-bar (name) (let ((i 0)) (with-html-output (*page*) (:div (do-query (button
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by nibbula 10y ago
Can you say: “U+1f4a9 U+1f32a”? Those of you complaining about RMS's curmudgeonly demeanor, perhaps you would rather be using Apple iEmacs™ and “Microsoft Visual Emacs 2013”, with about the same freedom as you have with macOS / iO