4:46:17no-defun-allowedI have little understanding of what happened - my guess is that I got tripped up while joining #lisp somehow, but that doesn't explain e.g what happened to LdBeth.
5:39:33splittistThe good news is that the connection to the xserver (or xclient - knowing I always get them mixed up, I always get them mixed up) crashed (perhaps when the screensaver kicked in), so I have an excuse to avoid my excuse for avoiding what I ought to be doing.
9:22:32beachOK, so 2008-2013 were quite slow for SICL. 2016 and 2017 a bit sluggish. So I think it is fair to say that I have so far put in around 6 years of part-time work, so say 4 person-years. That's not too bad.
11:06:28beachI need to figure out how to write the system-call code, and I need help comparing the options. 1. I can write the code in assembly using (say) NASM and try to figure out how to read a binary file to create a SICL function. 2. I can invent a type of function where the body consists of Cluster instructions and create a way to turn that into a SICL function. 3. I can create primops, AST classes, HIR classes, etc., and figure out how to
11:09:34beachzacts: Whenever I see "kernel", I kind of lose interest, at least with respect to the CLOSOS idea.
11:10:33beachI hate it when I have to restart Firefox just because they updated something, and I hate it that I have to restart the operating system and all the applications when they update the kernel.
11:10:36no-defun-allowedWhat about the "kernal" on Commodore machines?
11:11:02beachno-defun-allowed: I don't know. What about it?
11:11:43no-defun-allowedNothing important, I was wondering if the somewhat different spelling changed things.
11:11:48zactsbeach: with no kernel would all of the software have to be written in lisp?