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21:41:57
pjb
jcowan: as an example of this, check how ASDF displays the dots while compiling systems.
23:42:14
HM0880
Hello, can I use my existing GitLab account to sign into https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/, or do I need to make a Common-Lisp GitLab account?
23:58:04
White_Flame
so no, it wouldn't have anything to do with the accounts registered on the one that gitlab.com is running
0:06:10
aeth
doesn't really say much about Gitlab's confidence in gitlab.com that you can sign in with other sites (even Github!) but not with Gitlab
0:08:02
HM0880
My question was unclear: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/users/sign_in does not accept my existing Gitlab credentials.
0:08:40
HM0880
https://common-lisp.net/project-intro has an email for a CL admin, but that email looked like it was intended for joining a project; I just want to report an issue.
0:10:43
edgar-rft
HM0880: in case of doubt there's a #common-lisp.net channel where you can ask the admins themselves
8:09:40
rendar
reading the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs says that the language it convers is Scheme and not Lisp, is this normal?
8:14:39
jackdaniel
I've noticed a glitch in the matrix, it may be that they do something to the r eality ,)
8:15:36
jackdaniel
Lisp is often used in a sense "languages that descend from LISP 1.5", in this sense scheme does not qualify. that said scheme is considered a lisp dialect regardless by many (if not most) people
8:31:23
wasamasa
there is this weird split between people who believe lisp means a family of lisp languages and that lisp means CL and CL-like languages
8:52:45
pjb
rendar: that's correct. scheme is more pedagogical a programming language than Common Lisp. That's why it's often used in books and lectures.
8:53:13
pjb
rendar: but as a programmer you must be used to switching to different languages, and even to write programs that work as-is in several languages!!!
8:54:37
jackdaniel
sicp is a book about writing programs, scheme is used as a language to illustrate various concepts
8:54:51
pjb
rendar: see for example: https://github.com/informatimago/happy/blob/master/happy.source or Have a look at (intersection common-lisp emacs-lisp scheme) http://www.informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/small-cl-pgms/intersection-r5rs-common-lisp-emacs-lisp/
8:55:11
pjb
rendar: it's a common misconception. sicp is not a book about lisp or scheme. It's a book about programming!
8:55:34
pjb
rendar: people have been doing the exercises in sicp in all kinds of languages, from CL to C++.
9:04:11
rendar
can we say that a symbol is a string, and that the environment is an hash table mapping that string, to that internal structure?