ventuspilot

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   by ventuspilot 2y ago

   > Java's REPL is like a kick in the nuts compared to using one in Common Lisp. An IDE connected to a running Java process via JDPA/JDI (Java debug interface) is probably a better comparison. Sure, Common Lisp will allow you to
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   by ventuspilot 2y ago

   This is funny because in the 90s I was at a similar position. I was at a university department where everybody had a Solaris 2.3 or 2.4 box as well as a PC that would dual boot into OS/2 or a 5MB MSDOS partition. Solaris, OS/2 and
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   by ventuspilot 2y ago

   Most programming languages are defined in terms of program text, Lisp is not. Lisp is defined in terms of in-memory structures and what happens if you pass these in-memory structures to a hypothetic of actually existing function "eval&
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   by ventuspilot 2y ago

   -> the Lisp linked lists were gone Cons cells and linked lists are not completely gone, though: user=> (cons 1 (cons 2 nil)) (1 2) Cons cells however are somewhat limited in that the second argument to cons must be an ISe
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   Show HN: I Made a Lisp(github.com)

   7 points by ventuspilot 3y ago|1 comments
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   by ventuspilot 4y ago

   AMD's linux graphics driver has entered the chat