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I would say that, i would agree with ian. Public to push back a little on the slippery slope trajectory of skirting the essentialist line. But also to say that i think the Politics Around it can be articulated in particular ways that would also make for me would have appreciable differences with the motivations and the reasons and the justifications for taking a decision not to invest a i with this kind of responsibility and authority. We could also add one other thing, before we opened things u...

Programming blog of Eugene

I got a cheap used copy of the book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah G. Tatar, Digital Press, 1987. Why did I read such an...

What are the foundations that continue to influence our tech choices in our digital world?

Dedicated to restoring and preserving the Interlisp experience

Overview The Medley Interlisp Project has made significant progress toward its goals of preserving, extending, and documenting the “experience” of Interlisp for now and for the future. This annual report highlights our achievements and ongoing efforts. Key Accomplishments We’ve structured our work around project objectives: lower barriers to entry, adapt to modern environments and user expectations, complete “work in progress”, demonstrate applications built in and for the system. Lowe...

Austral is a new systems programming language. It uses linear types to provide memory safety and capability-secure code, and is designed to be simple enough to be understood by a single person, with a focus on readability, maintainability, and modularity.

Common Lisp interface to the pigpio Raspberry Pi hardware library - GitHub - jetmonk/cl-pigpio: Common Lisp interface to the pigpio Raspberry Pi hardware library

Common Lisp programming is often presented as “interactive”. In most languages, modifications to your program are applied either by recompiling it and restarting it. In contrast, Common Lisp lets you incrementally modify your program while it is running. While this approach is convenient, especially for exploratory programming, it also means that the state of your program during execution does not always reflect the source code. You do not just define new constructs: you look...

Ever since I joined Twitter in 2011, and then moved to Mastodon in 2022, I have been unhappy with the timeline view proposed by both of these communication platforms as their main interface. Now I have finally done something about it: I wrote my own Masto...