Notices by Steven G. Harms (sgharms@techhub.social)

BLOG POST:

Quitting the Land of #Lisp

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2025-01-30-quitting-the-land-of-lisp/

(don't worry! I'm almost done with Touretzky! Giving up on this book, not the language)

@sand @nickthewright what’s the replacement to THEDRAW.EXE?

@RL_Dane @amoroso reminds me of the mono apple IIGS desktop.

@RL_Dane @amoroso speaking of internet rabbit holes….

The interlisp desktop reminded me of mono IIGS so I went digging for pictures of it. I was some dozen tabs deep when this notification came in.

How do I get a pro-Debian glyph?!

@RL_Dane @amoroso perfect. No notes.

@amoroso @RL_Dane confirmed. (Also need a lispy one)

@RL_Dane @amoroso @amin I’m working through a book about it now. Very interesting language. I still dream that someone could write a truly great intro book to the material—- but I haven’t found or written it yet. If you can figure out Debian alternatives, I’m sure Lisp will be conquerable.

@RL_Dane @amoroso @amin yea. Rainbow paired parens, indentation, and simple functions.

@RL_Dane @amoroso @amin

So I'm currently learning. Here's my setup. The top window is my running execution context. In Lisp we don't have to recompile between edits. We can write a function in the file buffer (bottom half) and do a key combo to (re-)evaluate the definition and clobber the old one. So, for me, programming is building small functions, evaluating them into the upper half, using them in higher-order functions, rinse/wash/repeat.

This code is taken from Land of Lisp, a book i'm working through that is far from perfect, but better than many (as a C person you know that vibe).

@flockofnazguls

Such a weird discussion. Was he implying the Ixians were violating Jihad and that house corrino needed to investigate?