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Friday Social: What is your favorite non-Lisp language? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1. What Lisp programming languages do you use?

I use pretty much only languages in the Lisp family. Since I'm a hobby programmer I'm the boss and get to decide what tools to use.

2. What non-Lisp programming languages do you use?

None, at least regularly.

3. What is your favorite Lisp programming language? Why?

Interlisp and Common Lisp because my daily driver is the wonderful Medley Interlisp development environment, which supports both dialects.

4. What is your favorite non-Lisp programming language? Why?

AWK. I love its combination of simplicity, abstraction, control paradigm, and support for rapid development.

5. What is that one thing about your favorite non-Lisp language that you wish to see in your favorite Lisp language?

I wouldn't necessarily want to see AWK or some of its features in Lisp. Some of these features are already in Lisp and, as for the others, I don't mind dusting off AWK itself when needed.

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An annotated Lisp bibliography (simondobson.org)
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The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival (every.to)
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How User Groups Made Software Reuse a Reality (ztoz.blog)
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Why Chromebook keyboards have lowercase letters (blog.google)
I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).

Office workstations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An interesting view. But the PET was definitely lower specced than the later 16/32-bit machines usually regarded as workstations.

Office workstations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, possibly.

Office workstations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's likely, but I wonder whether any other office workstations were actually developed.

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Office workstations (lemmy.ml)
 

Up to the 1990s there were workstations designed for software development (Lisp/Smalltalk Machines by various vendors), graphics and CAD (Apollo, SGI), and general purpose systems (Sun, HP).

Was Xerox Star the only office workstation?

Were there other dedicated workstations (not high-end PCs or Macs) designed for office and business tasks? Of course there were word processing machines. But I'm not sure they qualify as they didn't play in the same league as the Star and were much less versatile.

Why people gave up using linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

Why people gave up using linux? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I'm back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld’s Origins, as Told by David Bunnell (technologizer.com)
Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K in the early 1980s when I was 17. My parents agreed to buy it and I used to device to learn about computers, which I was curious about as I had played a bit with the Apple IIe and the Sinclair ZX-81 of some classmates.

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Common Lisp tips (github.com)
Why do you use the terminal? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Because it's the most effective and powerful tool for putting the Unix philosophy into practice.

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2023 Medley Interlisp Annual Report (interlisp.org)
 

Disclosure: I'm a member of the Medley Interlisp Project.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

An alternative is to ask questions about features of the pitched product or offer.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Possibly saving time and resources.

Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay. But if a robocaller doesn't lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.

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Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers? (lemmy.ml)
 

When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don't bait, and don't interact. So why don't telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don't lead to any sales or other business benefits?

Maybe the cost of keeping the numbers is so low telemarketers just don't bother. Or keeping track of what numbers to delete may actually have a cost. Or perhaps telemarketers hope those people will eventually pick up the calls.

Any insight?

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Write Your Own Retro Compiler (t3x.org)
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Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum photos (photos.app.goo.gl)
 

My photos of a visit to the incredible Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy. Mind blowing.

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Doug Lenat's source code for AM and possibly EURISKO w/Traveller found in public archives (white-flame.com)
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