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4:41:01
easye
Like _Art of Computer Programming_, one is never finished with SICP esp. if you work through the problems.
4:44:41
minion
buoy49: look at LiSP: "Lisp in Small Pieces". This book covers Lisp, Scheme and other related dialects, their interpretation, semantics and compilation. To sum it up in a few figures: 500 pages, 11 chapters, 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. <http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html>
4:45:28
beach
It is a translation from French, but thanks to the very talented translator, the translation is actually better than the original.
4:46:34
easye
buoy49: exactly, 'cuz the problems lead to further questions, which lead to further problems, like all truly great pedagogical texts.
4:48:40
easye
beach: interesting that the translation is better than the original. Never heard that before. (I don't know French well enough to judge)
4:49:00
buoy49
beach: that's interesting re: translation, but that seems to be the case with quite a few texts now that I think of it
4:49:39
beach
I said that partly tongue-in-cheek. The translator is my wife. But I do think it is better.
4:54:10
buoy49
easye: you know about Paris, TX? I haven't been there, yet. But I was reading about it the other day, actually
11:03:56
pls153
COUNTER ACTION other breaking news: someone is already developing a new browser in Rust: https://github.com/twilco/kosmonaut
13:03:10
Josh_2
mrcom: https://github.com/K1D77A/metalock all slot access happens using a read-writer lock now
14:53:00
puchacz
hi, what version of write / print function is equivalent of (format nil "~a" object) please? object being any object
15:01:01
puchacz
I have it with format nil already, maybe the compiler does something sensible with it, but I prefer to make it less ugly
15:24:29
puchacz
jackdaniel: your function gives a compilation warning about unused argument. something is wrong with it :)
16:14:19
flip214
If a macro wants to store a (static) value per-callsite (same for all threads), is the best way to use use the value slot of a gensym? Is there a more memory-efficient way if I just want to remember a fixnum? (cache for max. size of w-o-t-s)