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0:46:10
nyef`
trinque: OTP is "one-time programmable", EPROM is "erasable" PROM. These things do not go together.
0:48:40
nyef`
(Okay, "PROM", "EPROM", "EEPROM", and "FlashROM" are not, technically, "ROM", since they can be written, but they aren't "RAM", either, because writing them can be a pain (although the pain tends to decrease as you move along the spectrum from PROM to FlashROM).)
3:25:29
nyef`
... And now I have a hash collision between the children's book "Goodnight, Moon" and the old-school Lisp hacker.
3:31:55
nyef`
Maybe Moon did the initial version, and Stallman did the consolidation of different versions?
3:34:56
beach
I recently learned that the first Emacs implementation written in Lisp was NOT Multics Emacs, but some Lisp Machine implementation of it (ZMacs?).
3:37:23
nyef`
The impression I get is that ZMacs comes from when "they" were using Zeta as a prefix for some of the LispM stuff.
3:38:38
nyef`
Plausibly a derivative of ZWEI (ZWEI Was EINE Initially, a successor to EINE Is Not Emacs).
3:39:16
nyef`
... And now I'm reminded of INTERCAL, which stands for Programming Language With No Pronouncable Acronym.
3:41:38
nyef`
This would also be the programming language with the COME FROM statement, and some variants include the "computed" COME FROM, and the multi-threaded version where multiple COME FROM statements that come from the same place is used to spawn threads.
7:23:06
manny8888
I have been looking for documentation on how mcclim interfaces with backends. I have found nothing save for 1 page in the manual, and obviously reading through the code.
7:28:07
beach
I so wish we could eliminate this markup-language conundrum so that we could start uniformizing the documentation. Not any time soon, I fear.
7:33:04
beach
So your solution to the problem that we have too many markup languages and that, because of that, any particular choice is rejected by 90% of developers, is to suggest yet another markup language?