scottlocklin

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1921.
by scottlocklin 13y ago
bigmemory is a better package.
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by scottlocklin 13y ago
The only downside to J notation is some of the primitives use more than one character (something K solves). Otherwise, the notes are just written differently. I find old school APL impossible to read, basically because I never bothered lear
1923.
by scottlocklin 13y ago
Well, if you download, say, TL3 from Leon's page (a subset of SN), you'll immediately see that the "predecessors" are essentially the same language. Same Ogre, same UI. You can even call pieces of it in modern Lush. The
1924.
by scottlocklin 13y ago
Try this: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/contents.htm Or, download it and run one of the intro labs; that's even better.
1925.
by scottlocklin 13y ago
Lush as a language was developed in 1987, just like it says on the website. Older versions of it are reading the numbers off of your checks when you deposit it in the ATM machine. The ideas it embodies are significantly older than common li
1926.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
If you're interested in writing software, labview is a bad choice. If you're interested in solving problems on a computer, labview is often the only choice. Things like it will probably eventually make your job obsolete, as more people can
1927.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
It is oogly (thanks, mostly, to java), and it is a shell script. scott@thinkpad ~/j64-701/bin $ file /usr/bin/lein /usr/bin/lein: Bourne-Again shell script text executable I picked the word "lein" instead of "leiningen" for a reason. That's
1928.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
Dark corners at present: compiling 64 bit C++ code into it. Otherwise; it's my favorite thing.
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by scottlocklin 14y ago
It's extremely important in the financial industry.
1930.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
I believe I covered that. Though if it were not for PG, everyone would think RH was weird for doing it in Lisp.
1931.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
I do write for the same magazine as the moustachioed founder of hipsterdom, and my favorite Lisp is very obscure (Lush), but I fail to see any hipstery things in what I wrote. I'm a redneck and I lift weights. I don't use Lush for the reaso
1932.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
I thought it was pretty obvious. I had a lisp book before I read Graham's essays. I only seriously looked into lisp after PG convinced me to.
1933.
by scottlocklin 14y ago
It's not that Labview is great for spectroscopy. It's that it is great for building things to control large, complex scientific apparatus (mine was an X-ray Fourier spectrometer; the X-ray beamline was also controlled in this way), manage s