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4:30:26
no-defun-allowed
I have submitted my application to transfer universities. Upon re-reading the list of dates, they do say they will accept late applications if there are too few applications, so that situation is sort of expectable.
7:48:08
no-defun-allowed
Admittedly not really, I just...really disliked the first year at this university.
7:49:26
no-defun-allowed
Like surely how computers mangle arithmetic, and how things exist in memory should be the least of your concerns when you haven't written a "Hello, world" program, but apparently that's first week material. And most of the information was wrong, like saying the minimum number of instructions you need on a computer is about 10 (or is 1 about 10?)
7:51:41
splittist
no-defun-allowed: I am cynical, so take this comment in that spirit. I don't think you should expect to learn things at university from lectures (beyond what the examiners will want at the end of the year, or TAs will want for the coursework if that counts, too). You will learn things because you have time and access to facilities and, if you are lucky, fellow minds, that are curious about the same things.
7:51:49
no-defun-allowed
Apparently I have too high standards, never mind that I accumulate US$7000 of debt a year to rot my brain on this "education".
7:52:27
no-defun-allowed
splittist: I am well aware, I have acknowledged that I'm at university to get a piece of paper that suggests I can take this shit. Sometimes I wonder if I can.
8:00:13
no-defun-allowed
I've felt less capable of handling anything until I leave university, this week, let alone for much, much longer. But that's not a #sicl discussion.
10:12:12
ck_
Maybe this is old hat to you, but I just got some amusement out of looking at the github statistics for SICL. According to it, there's 0.1% "NewLisp" code in it :)
10:35:05
no-defun-allowed
(It also occurs when you find lexical scoping too hard to implement in your interpreter, and write long paragraphs about how deep copying return values between stack frames is faster than garbage collection, and how mutable data structures and variable arguments are far too complicated. Okay, I'll stop.)
10:41:11
no-defun-allowed
I'll leave it at "I like to read NewLisp propaganda when I'm having too good of a day".
13:24:38
jackdaniel
github gathers statistics how much of the code written in cl is new and labels it as newlisp