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by farray 1y ago
"Graph Database" is what mainframe systems have been successfully using under other names for 80 years.
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by farray 3y ago
ITA started doing everything in Lisp, but especially as the original coding founder left, started hiring people doing stuff in Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, shell, C++, PL/SQL, etc. The core software was still Common Lisp, but lots of cruf
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Gerbil Scheme v0.18.1 NimzoLarsen released(github.com)
10 points by farray 3y ago|2 comments
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by farray 3y ago
New in std library: an S3 client, an SMTP client, SSL for Postgres (enables Heroku support), better CLI support (including multicall binaries), and plenty of module updates. Plus a few minor bug fixes. See Gerbil Scheme homepage https:&#x2
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Gerbil v0.18 Released(github.com)
21 points by farray 3y ago|5 comments
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by farray 3y ago
Gerbil Scheme < https://cons.io > just saw its release v0.18, with many usability and documentation upgrades, and a bunch of new functionality in the standard library. A "meta-dialect of Scheme with post-modern featur
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by farray 4y ago
MuKn | Remote, all timezones | Full-time or contract | https://mukn.io/ _Mutual Knowledge Systems_ https://mukn.io is hiring a project manager, a network protocol engineer, a cryptographer, and interns. Our miss
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by farray 9y ago
Les mathématiciens sont comme les Français: quoiqu'on leur dise, ils le traduisent dans leur propre langue, et cela devient alors quelque chose de complètement différent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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by farray 9y ago
And what is Arc in?
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by farray 9y ago
My current setup does not compare favorably with Emacs/slime at this point. I use screen, I call a build script in one shell REPL, I use gerbil-mode in Emacs in the other, reload'ing things that I rebuild, or restarting the M-x ru
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by farray 9y ago
Executing fasls is cool, but they will start from a new empty image, and loading fasls is actually kind of slow, so if you use lots of libraries rather than write a trivial example, that may consume hundreds of milliseconds before the progr
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by farray 9y ago
I wrote cl-launch so you can use #!/usr/bin/cl with lots of options and write scripts that are either portable or implementation-specific (and trivially switch from one implementation to the other).
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by farray 9y ago
Interestingly, I just added a section on Gerbil, the Lisp dialect I have adopted instead of PLT, for many personal reasons.
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by farray 10y ago
I once tried ChanL but it was buggy, and concurrency bugs are the worst to debug. lparallel on the other hand was solid to me, though I didn't like its API and had to (trivially) build my own message-passing abstractions on top of it.
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by farray 10y ago
I have a chapter in preparation that addresses the comparison with Urbit.
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by farray 10y ago
The slides are meant to support a talk. What will be more worthy of publication will be the video for the talk, when it's edited and uploaded. In the meantime, there is a bad recording of an earlier take on the same ideas from LispNYC.
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by farray 10y ago
Yes, but the interesting part is wetware metaprogramming.