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11:48:04
ebzzry
Using ASDF, is there a way to determine the name of the system that is currently being loaded?
12:34:17
beach
jprajzne: Not necessarily. If the existing software is written in an unsafe language, or in a language that makes the software difficult to maintain, or in a language that is not supported by some operating system we are thinking of, then writing a better version is justified.
12:35:31
jackdaniel
English term "reinventing the wheel" is terrible at what it tries to illustrate, because wheel was reinvented many times for many reasons (i.e we do not drive on wooden wheels)
12:37:51
jprajzne
beach: yes, in reality. but aside from that, if it was good to run in production, we should be able to reuse it
12:38:36
jprajzne
but i rarely see people taking implementation x and reusing it with much of writing new code somewhere else?
12:42:24
jackdaniel
oh, thank you, I didn't know that. next time I'll bring that up against the "wheels" instead of Polish idiom
13:06:42
flip768
just read https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793253/6ff74ecfb804c410/, didn't know that C was already _that_ messy... Seems that writing things in C is only doable with -O0 now.
13:23:37
beach
dlowe: Me neither, or at least I don't think so. But I found several sites on the net claiming it is an idiom.
13:25:37
ck_
ACTION activates stopwatch to see at what point someone is checking google ngrams or equivalent
13:48:45
Xach
cron runs "screen -c daily.screenrc -dmS daily-build" and daily.screenrc runs sbcl with the right options.
17:10:11
Xach
portable allegroserve changing from aserve to paserve has broken a number of things that are very old and unlikely to be fixed
17:15:16
ck_
do you know, as in do you collect stats for, how often these are requested through quicklisp?
17:17:42
ck_
do the broken legacy ones appear in any significant way? If some authors are no longer contactable, maybe someone else would take over and do the p-port
17:22:14
ck_
anyway has this happened before in quicklisps lifetime? Are there -legacy repositories where the maintainership has changed?
22:13:11
nullnullnull
man, I just wanted to try lisp and im stuck on the debugger console :| exiting the debugger is a serious business
22:25:53
Oladon_work
See how it says "restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):" ?
22:26:54
Oladon_work
Yeah, what no-defun-allowed said — you're good for now, but you should learn how to use the debugger for the future
22:34:48
Oladon_work
Hehe, nullnullnull: the REPL there is reacting to your SIGINT and dropping you down into the debugger