4xel

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by 4xel 1mo ago
> Paren issues with Clojure probably mean your functions are too long? I like to keep mine down to 8-10 lines or less when possible, keep them flat and composable, use threading macro and then transducers for performance. This is a separ
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by 4xel 1mo ago
> > Homoiconicity and the AST It's a purely theoretical and speculative advantage as of now. Human lisper think in AST, that's something powerful, and it's reasonable to assume an AI could too, with benefits. But LLMs s
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by 4xel 1mo ago
Lisp debuggers are uncommonly powerful, but there's more to "living systems" than debuggers. I suck at using debugging tools, lisp or otherwise, yet I still love the living system aspect of Lisp or OCaml. In mainstream langua
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by 4xel 1mo ago
This really frustrates me, because it shouldn't be much harder to train a generative transformer models to be aware not just of previous tokens but also programming context, that is the current pile of open parens and their associated
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by 4xel 1mo ago
Wholheartedly agree! Even as someone who loves a challenge, has a high opinion of themselves, and knew would love LISP, I postponed diving into it longer than I wish I had, on the mistaken assumption it would be pretty hard. Still, I don&#x
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by 4xel 2mo ago
While I agree with the conclusion, I don't agree with all the examples given. > Invariant: From this point on the array’s length must be 3N + 1 for some integer N. Invariant can be checked by code, and they definitely should if your
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by 4xel 2mo ago
Fair enough. FWIW, I know several lifelong Emacs users who never wrote or read a line of lisp. But for those who do choose Emacs for its supreme hackability, I got a hunch that their profile is very similar to those who choose lisp for its
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by 4xel 2mo ago
I'm confused, what emacs do you have in mind? For me, emacs is a lisp machine, hackable live, M-. all the way down, that kind of things, that's the whole point (again, subjective opinion, and I'm interested in yours). What la
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by 4xel 2mo ago
Like https://lem-project.github.io/ ? (not vibe coded btw, even better!)