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10:32:42
wasamasa
nature: its author is around these channels and he wrote quite a bit of CL which may be useful for you, even if you're developing a 3D game
10:38:18
nature
Oh yes, he also made the trial engine right? I wonder how suited for 3D it'd be, but I still feel that I'd need a basic grasp of opengl and 3d programming before that
10:44:03
nature
Thanks, and yeah, seeing Kandria on Steam is also even more encouraging do use CL because it's hard to imagine that there would be a show stopper along the way to making a game.
10:50:23
wasamasa
when I was still hanging out on #lispgames, most people seemed to be enjoying the process of making their own game engine instead of building an actual game worth playing
15:37:31
jcowan
wasamasa: A variant of the Curse of Lisp: solve the meta-problem, after which the solution to the problem is obvious, so don't bother with it.
15:39:39
jcowan
Yes, like the problem of lighting the stove, where the mathematician basically says "If the match is already lit, blow it out, which reduces this problem to the previous problem."
16:03:30
masinter
i remember the talk, he was talking about solving problems by specializing or generalizing
16:05:08
masinter
i've heard MIT CADR sources and an emulator have been released? i couldn't tell if this was recent news
16:37:48
pjb
masinter: mind also a hastory of haskell, and a pascory of pascal. chatgpt should be able to help you design them.
17:19:50
VioletJewel
quicklisp on archlinux? I guess you can't just pacman -Syu quicklisp && sbcl ... (quicklisp-quickstart:install) because that doesn't work for me :(
17:20:38
VioletJewel
I know I can follow the instructions and curl it and sbcl --load and bla bla, but I was hoping I could just use the community package.
17:23:02
VioletJewel
ie, will pacman -Syu quicklisp; sbcl --load /usr/share/quicklisp/quicklisp.lisp break anythin? It seems to checkout, but I don't want to break anything, and I cannot find any docs on this heh
18:41:04
jcowan
I'll say this much: we know who holds the rights, and he isn't interested in open-sourcing them, and he's sick of being contacted about it.
18:52:29
wasamasa
I thought it would be something like "I signed a NDA with this company and we'll discuss the rest in secret"
19:15:05
jcowan
No, that's not a secret as such, it just has no name: it's the group of people who are interested in open-sourcing Symbolics
19:17:35
jcowan
I'm happy to give anyone who wants contact info for the group the email address of the chair. Tell him John Cowan sent you.