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by math-dev 4y ago
Change Common Lisp to (print “Hello, World!”) - no need to make things complicated ;)
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by math-dev 4y ago
There is a lot of bad lisp code out there, especially these days (most open source projects in CL are more about look how smart I am but by themselves are mostly terrible code). But I agree with your first point, the _older_ lisp programmer
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by math-dev 4y ago
My suggestion is to find some programmers in your selected language who you look up to and learn from them how best to write code in that language I may be generalising but I find older (40+) programmers more likely to write good code - the
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by math-dev 4y ago
Would you have an example of how to do that?
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by math-dev 4y ago
Interesting - thanks for the tip!
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by math-dev 4y ago
Is it via class or functional components ? Keep up the good work - maybe jetbrains will buy / fund you!
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by math-dev 4y ago
No I think this may be off base (but appreciate your original viewpoint) but also correct. I think for luxury goods like artwork boats etc what you say is correct, but what I think doesn’t work is property prices. There’s no reason for the
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by math-dev 4y ago
Wow!
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by math-dev 4y ago
Was in a similar position. The way I coped was not to think of the past, life’s too short to do that. Be in the present and build your future. Also some good advice: don’t kick yourself for your decision. It was YOU who decided it that way,
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by math-dev 4y ago
I’m a lisper and i did roll my eyes :D
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by math-dev 4y ago
Silicon Valley was a great show
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by math-dev 4y ago
I love how negative HN is. $1k for a book and I would be over the moon Author has a full time job, think of it as a hobby like a blog. Instead of posting on HN daily , he wrote books and made $160k…that’s a full house in some parts…and that
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by math-dev 4y ago
Source code of LW editor is mostly available. I’ve done some extensive modifications to it (implemented VIM mode), but these days I’ve moved back to Emacs- just something I prefer more
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by math-dev 4y ago
In principle not too hard, in practice the topic comes up every few months and nobody has done it yet
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by math-dev 4y ago
All good points
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by math-dev 4y ago
I think so, try asking on reddit or IRC if you still can’t find them via some google fu
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by math-dev 4y ago
Great comment, agree a lot with this
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by math-dev 4y ago
Awesome, thanks for the links!
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by math-dev 4y ago
You bring a good point about the loop macro (which I do like too). Maybe you are right. My personal feeling is trying to do static typing will lead to less elegant code (I say less elegant, because any code that works and is fast enough is
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by math-dev 4y ago
Those already exist and have been used by many. Coalton is a set of macros to make it easier for to write with the safety rails of static typing. Now if I write in Swift, for example, static typing is great, because the IDE can give a lot o
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by math-dev 4y ago
Fun fact I learnt the other day browsing some historic posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replann... Written in Lisp at the time and widely successful to the point it paid back many times over
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by math-dev 4y ago
Its not very smart to add static typing to Lisp, goes against the strengths of the language. At that point just program in another language, there’s a lot of benefit of static typing that IDEs can take advantage of but for anyone half decen
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by math-dev 4y ago
For content you copied to begin with????
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by math-dev 4y ago
this was us!
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by math-dev 4y ago
My view is that math is highly expressive and constraining that expressivity through rules like don’t type |x| is not a great idea
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by math-dev 4y ago
Great post!
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by math-dev 4y ago
You should write a blog post on BBEdit to help them get more users! Do you think the high quality of cloud flare may some way have been inspired by your use of BBEdit?
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by math-dev 4y ago
Xah Lee’s tips on elisp were super useful to me. A relic of the usenet era (an infamous troll on comp.lang.lisp), but someone who has added a lot of value to a lot of lives Long love ergomacs!
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Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook (2015)(youtube.com)
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by math-dev 4y ago
Yes if you do eventually finish, then winning indeed :)

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