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23:43:17
pjb
sjl: I sympathize. Having used MS-DOS and MS-Windows leaves your brains so deteriorated for life. Poor little guy!
23:44:15
sjl
pjb: yeah, it's similar to how prologed emacs use leaves you illiterate, able to communicate only in monosyllabic grunts of "ctrl, meta, meta h"
23:49:19
White_Flame
\= is the Prolog syntax for "does not unify", so maybe that was in your history somewhere
23:52:10
sjl
White_Flame: damn, I didn't even think of that. I'm in the middle of the Prolog class SWI is doing this summer.
4:02:48
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CopyLeft could have cool things like recursive structures and parametric polymorphism and jump tables
4:10:40
PuercoPop
What I would like is an extensible environment to develop in similar to Smalltalk. McCLIM is the best FLOSS alternative in that direction that I know of. But as they say, "Write the code you want to see in the World"
4:14:38
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parjanya: I want to DEFSTRUCT A and B with them referring to one another with :type and not have CL croak
8:21:48
beach
johnnymacs: What on earth is that supposed to mean? Linked lists do not have any computation power.
8:24:49
johnnymacs
Is it not true that I can represent the number five as a linked list 5 deep and represent subtractionf rom that list as popping the the list 3 times to get a list 2 deep. And isn't it true that I can represent an array as a list, and isn't it true that I can represent an integer reteurn value as a list, and isn't it true I can represent and integer input value as a list?
8:30:03
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johnnymacs: representation of values is only a part of any sort of computing device/program/interpreter/etc
8:30:48
stylewarning
Even if we can represent 2 and 3 as lists, who is in charge of computing, say, 2+3 as a list?
8:33:13
stylewarning
Whatever that “something” is—an interpreter—is what you can have a conversation about Turing completeness over