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Tuesday, 18th of January 2022, 9:04:20 UTC
11:53:22
rotateq
jackdaniel: but as i was peeking about a presentation by stylewarning again "SBCL for quantum computing at Rigetti" he mentions you very positively in connection to ecl on one slide :)
12:03:49
jackdaniel
oh, that's nice of him
12:08:45
rotateq
yes, that you do a great job on it. from his videos and the writing here on irc he seems to be a very nice *and* capable guy
12:09:10
rotateq
i like his video back from 2013 showing math with cl
12:09:29
rotateq
"if you want to learn from written code, don't look at the maxima source"
12:11:49
jackdaniel
he was also a very sensible point of contact with rigetti when they have hired me, yes
12:12:29
jackdaniel
I think that he pits quite a bit of effort with coalton
12:13:53
jackdaniel
(as a contractir, not an employee)
12:17:26
rotateq
oh really you worked there? impressive! ._.
12:17:51
rotateq
yes as quilc seems to be at a level they need
12:18:07
rotateq
i hope i can understand it unleat a bit someday
12:22:43
jackdaniel
they have contracted me to improve ecl (and slightly magicl and quilc)
12:23:30
jackdaniel
most notably it resulted in current implementation of complex floats (using native c datatype)
15:02:34
fitzsim
I'm trying out unix-opts with ecl --shell, and I get unknown option: "--shell".
15:02:48
fitzsim
sbcl --script <(echo '(format t "~a~%" sb-ext:*posix-argv*)') a b => (sbcl a b)
15:03:17
fitzsim
should ecl remove the --shell from (ext:command-args)?
15:04:20
fitzsim
if not, I think unix-opts needs some portability glue for the "ecl --shell" case
Tuesday, 18th of January 2022, 21:04:20 UTC