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3:47:45
pillton
I am going to try and be a regular. I miss the discussions and the references that come up.
3:48:16
pillton
e.g. I don't know who recommended "The Art of Multiprocessing Programming" but thank you. I really enjoyed it.
3:49:11
beach
Speaking of books, can I assume you know that phoe's book on the condition system is now (or soon?) available on Apress?
3:51:05
pillton
"It is not easy to understand even for Lispers. I had two attempts that I abandoned."
3:53:52
pillton
The discussion about syntactic, glue and programmatic layers really resonated with me. A lot of what I write follows that design pattern.
4:15:12
borei
quick question - if i do foreign-alloc within lisp function and i don't do foreign-free - im getting memory leak ?
4:20:10
borei
yep, totally agree. im working on the rados client, which depends on librados - which is C-library, so there will be pretty big portion of code dealing with for low level memory operation.
4:20:59
borei
was looking to do pure lisp implementation for the client - but im not there yet. Too complex.
7:37:28
adlai
ACTION is currently here for the purpose of condition-handling against https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-projects/issues/1917
7:38:02
adlai
scalpl is not officially unmaintained, thus, it is reasonable to close the issue, having denied the request, if that is the distributor's intent.
7:39:27
adlai
the primary purpose for that removal request is, for lack of a better name, "defensive unlicensing"
7:40:18
adlai
in case anyone is worried, the code is not covered by patents; and there is a significant, although low, probability that certain copies of it will soon be covered by aggressively copyleft licenses.
7:40:45
adlai
thus, I wish to save anyone who automatically mirrors the default dist a massive headache, involving lots of unsolicited paperwork.
7:41:40
adlai
... and if you ever include me in your software development process, please consider inviting your lawyer to my job interview.
8:48:57
adlai
https://freenode.irclog.whitequark.org/lisp/2020-10-15#28144452 << pillton, I once heard a theory claiming a paradoxical effect, wherein the surprise bestsellers that were failed by several editors, yet benefitted from -- grey-hat byte-stuffing, for lack of words -- still get incredible reviews because the critics just can't get past the tedia
8:51:12
adlai
; although that does not imply that the book is as terrible as you'd expect, from a glowing review by a paid professional critic.