some-mthfka

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by some-mthfka 4y ago
You are absolutely on point, yes. The building blocks themselves are what the users will extend upon and use. That plays a very big role in composition and reuse. There will also be configurations and contexts (which are really quite simple
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
> If I'm understanding this correctly, with your Lisp IDE you could have an image sub-editor which may expose functions for image modification (eg. cropping), which could be called from the parent-editor. Is this accurate? Yep, and,
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
> eco The eco article is quite interesting, it's a cool proof-of-concept. I don't know exactly how it compares, but there's also tylr, with an online demo you can check out [1]. > The example of splitting "Hello wo
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Hey, thanks, I have recognized your nick, nyxt is a cool project : )
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
I am not sure I understand the question, but, for instance, Lem is an emacs-inspired CL editor. Not structural or even hierarchical though.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Update: I have updated the power-of-structure article with a section on accessibility. Copypasting: It's important to think about issues such as accessibility in advance. I am basing my knowledge about this issue on this article about
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Thanks for mentioning Sourcehut, somehow is just didn't come up when I was researching the mailing list options. So far, looks like it has a really streamlined interface and is meant to be integrated with the mailing list workflow, whi
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Huh, interesting. I should try to learn more about STEPS in general some time...
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
My point isn't so much to reinvent Git's model (aka tree of blobs/commit/commit-graph), but rather to make it a part of a programmable interactive environment, and then just do the right thing from the user perspective.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
The thing about power-user software is that you can customize and package it to the point where it's indistinguishable from any other software, a polished end-user experience -- the user accepts the workflow of the given configuration
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Oh, boy, how did I miss that one... heh. You have a point there, I have thrown in a TLDR.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Good question. (Incidentally, it provides a good example for my words in the comment you have replied to.) Words could be objects. But I will tell you more: you can start breaking words into characters and making them objects too, if you ne
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Time is going to get by whether we like it or not. Here it is, by the way: https://project-mage.org/elevator
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Absolutely, it's image-based. I have considered Smalltalk, but I like macros a bit too much. I am pretty sure CL code will have better performance too, but don't quote me on this. A point worth making: if I were to do it in Smallt
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
> Javas class and object system I can't stress enough how important and helpful prototype OO has been to the current design. I couldn't imagine doing what I want to do without it. For example, some of the concepts such as confi
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
You know, I really haven't thought about that, but now that you mention it, I have heard before that in Emacs, the advice facility is very useful to the goal. Well, all I can say is that I see no problem in adding speech output or in a
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Ha, maybe : )
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Thanks : ) I will do my best to deliver.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
I can't edit the top post, as it was posted a few days back, and the thread has resurfaced. Currently, I am preparing an "elevator pitch" (as a few people have suggested me do), and I hope to publish it in a few hours. So, if
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
STEPS is a very interesting project, indeed. I don't think it was quite a failure, after all, they did Nile and Gezira, which was pretty cool (powerful vector graphics rendering in a few hundred lines of code). Someone might reuse thos
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
> Flexibility interacts poorly with composability. > Flexibility usually interacts poorly with performance as well. I disagree fundamentally. I believe there's such a thing as the flexibility of specialization. In fact: the reaso
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
The linear-algebra provides a usability layer to April (an APL compiler). The geometry is just geometry with intersections (Its pretty cool in that it has planes, infinite sections, etc). Then there's KR with formulas thrown out and th
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Haha, alright. I have a github profile https://github.com/some-mthfka I am not particularly proud of most of those projects. Many of them were strictly done for fun. Some of them I did because I didn't know any better.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Yep. I will have to add it to the article (and why it's insufficient as well).
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Alright : )
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Thank you : )
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
What kind of system was that, if I may ask?
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Man, I love these old demos. And I haven't seen this one before. I now understand much better what Alan Kay meant when he said: I felt like sticking my hands right through the display and actually touching the information structures d
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
Yeah, right : D In any case: there are quite obvious limitations, and, to me, they weren't very apparent when I started out in Emacs.
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by some-mthfka 4y ago
> It seems that the syntax highlighting is the culprit. In that case, it was the fact that adding a bullet point to a list would rescan the whole list (so it could simply update a bullet count in the header). You would need to implement

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