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4:55:26
beach
drmeister: Wow, that's a fairly long discussion, and some people seem to have understood the point, too. Very unusual and very nice.
5:01:39
beach
I am very surprised that this document gets read. I had not expected that, and I don't know what to think about it. :)
5:33:33
drmeister
Well, people like things and post them to hackernews. There is a lot of crap posted - it's nice to see something good now and then.
5:34:25
beach
Indeed. I don't follow these forums (fora?) so I don't quit understand what is going on.
5:36:03
drmeister
Pretty much that. crap crap crap crap cool-thing crap crap really-cool-thing. Hackernews is better than most.
5:38:52
drmeister
I think the site itself is coded in Common Lisp - it's run by Paul Graham and ycombinator.
5:39:16
no-defun-allowed
I think it's written in Arc, which is effectively Scheme with lots of shortenings.
5:41:04
no-defun-allowed
IIRC, Arc transpiles to (or is interpreted on?) Racket, which is also pretty cool.
5:46:17
no-defun-allowed
I get you though, writing lst in my otherwise very pretty, uncontracted code makes me cringe.
5:46:49
drmeister
ACTION likes his namespaces the way he likes his ice-cream and root-beer in floats - separated.
5:48:44
no-defun-allowed
I was very stupid today and forgot to copy my code off the desktop before I returned the CPU. I now cannot work on any of it for "two to six weeks". Oops.
5:50:34
no-defun-allowed
Also, erm, do you use the LLVM GC interface in Clasp, drmeister? On first sight, it seems a little obtuse, but I haven't had to manually interface with a GC for a while.
5:51:29
drmeister
No - I don't use the LLVM GC facilities. We interoperate with C++ and C++ doesn't provide any support for them.
6:10:59
samebchase
drmeister: you can try lobste.rs as well. It's like HN, but with a publicly available moderation log, and a smaller community
6:11:24
beach
Since I hadn't expected anyone to read the document, the version on the metamodular site was not quite up to date. Plus, lispos.pdf is the old name, so that one was even older. Now, closos.pdf and lispos.pdf are the same and up to date on the site.