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4:48:55
Bike
i could write up the bytecode stuff for ELS, but while it's working it's not really... done, to the level i'd like to be. doesn't seem interesting enough. i haven't even started on interconverting between bytecode and cleavir IR.
4:49:18
Bike
i have way too much stuff that's like three quarters done. the abstract interpreter has been sitting there unused for like a year now
5:01:03
beach
Maybe drmeister can be persuaded to hire another Common Lisp developer. Provided the company is doing well, of course.
5:01:49
beach
I find I have a hard time finishing a thing if I am the only one working on that thing. I need the help and inspiration of a second person.
5:04:16
Bike
that might have to wait a bit, unfortunately. we're still in the hemorrhaging capital investment stage. plus i suspect that the more valuable new employee would be a secretary
5:04:41
beach
If I had a multi-million € research grant, I would hire scymtym. I think his talent is largely wasted on that dayjob. :)
7:45:11
jcowan
beach: I have that exact problem too. I invented pair programming along with a co-worker back in the 1970s (of course we didn't publish so it doesn't count). The reason for it was that we only had one computer
7:46:13
jcowan
a few decades later we actually worked together again (he recommended me for the job) and we slipped right into the old work pattern, smooth as could be