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   screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 04:07:36 JST screwlisp

   @vavakado
   At the moment, (game programmer of decades) mdh has started experimenting with CLIM it's definitely more programmery than godot, depending on what you were doing with godot, and also nothing like rust.

   @kar
   I think Hayley points out that lisp machines were more important when computers were slow and you needed a hardware optimized cdadr to be performant. On the other hand, replacing problematic consumer computers/OSes with lisp machine FPGAs...! https://tumbleweed.nu/r/uhdl/doc/trunk/README.md
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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:40:13 JST screwlisp

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     • Hayley

     @hayley
     I'll try and break my habit of attributing ideas to you and just say them myself in the future sorry!
     @kar @vavakado

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     Hayley (hayley@social.applied-langua.ge)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:40:14 JST Hayley

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     @screwtape @vavakado @kar I don't remember saying such, I wouldn't know if CDADR gets one instruction, but I probably would say 1. CDR coding is nice if you're tight on memory*, which people were at the time and 2. the funky hardware was faster until compiler tech caught up
     
     Smalltalk on a RISC is cooler hardware in my worthless opinion (take *that*, AMS), the details are only in papers but I think there's enough for someone to implement it; someone doing hardware now should think about what compilers/software can't help with, and put that in hardware
     
     *cache should count for this too, but no one CDR codes now, oh well