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22:00:55
fittestbits
presentation-replace-input builds a file name string using directory-namestring and file-namestring so no host name.
22:01:33
fittestbits
However, filename-completer uses namstring which includes a hostname in some cases.
22:03:51
nyef
It'd be amusing if SBCL also used hostnames for UNC filespecs on Windows. I have no idea if it does, or if it is actually a reasonable thing to do. (-:
7:58:11
bjorkintosh
good lord beach. you have a small essay on perfection vs performance orientation.
7:58:49
bjorkintosh
well, you didn't say anything yesterday! it's a good essay. a light bulb has gone off in my head as a result.
8:00:25
bjorkintosh
no. thank you. I simply didn't know there was a name for the concepts in question.
8:02:27
bjorkintosh
ecraven, http://metamodular.com/Essays/psychology.html this is in relation to a little thing that came up about student attitudes yesterday.
8:03:23
bjorkintosh
it's short and sweet. beach you should definitely include that information at the end of the essay, you know for the perfection oriented!
8:04:03
bjorkintosh
so which marvelous feature did you discover, and which programming language was it beach?
8:04:50
bjorkintosh
"The people in the category perfection-oriented have a natural intellectual curiosity. They are constantly searching for better ways of doing things, new methods, new tools. They search for perfection, but they take pleasure in the search itself, knowing perfectly well that perfection can not be accomplished. To the people in this category, failure is a normal part of the strive for perfection. In fact, failure gives a deeper
8:04:50
bjorkintosh
understanding of why a particular path was unsuccessful, making it possible to avoid similar paths in the future."
8:05:32
jackdaniel
beach: did you think about specialized editor in which you can annotate the code? not only with comments, but also with drawings and possibly other media
8:05:58
jackdaniel
that would require a specialized editor which doesn't work directly on a text file
8:07:31
beach
jackdaniel: My main objective at the moment is to have an unbeatable tool for editing Common Lisp code.
8:08:02
jackdaniel
beach: I'm aware of it, just thought you might have had idea about it in the past
8:08:41
beach
I did have ideas about how to connect program text to external information such as documentation.