@silverwizard right. Tbh I got this from a horrible web result. I have no idea how the author thought I could deal with this, I think, non-portable *thing* from allegro common lisp
@flockofnazguls do you remember the shocking research, how rich adults are smarter than poor adults, and this is decided in childhood and relates to rich peoples' ability to sit next to a marshmellow without eating it when they're told they're allowed to but to try not to?
And it just kind of turned out later they were measuring the fact that rich children get to eat a lot of marshmellows, and if it's smart to be rich then you're going to call rich people smart.
#mastoquestion if someone toots a link to a toot, is there a way that the mastodon web interface can interpret this link as being to the instance you are using?
@signaleleven I think the distinction we're talking about here is a residential source system rather than a functional language. So I would say spreadsheet =FORMULAs are an example of a residential system, smalltalk, many lisps, .. One thing I'm wrestling with is getting this civilised in my lisp useage. It's kinda funny reading futuristic concepts in 50 year old articles. @vik@astrid
@signaleleven What is VBA standing for there? The idea was that it's a popular screen editor for text and such, but it benefits a lot from increasing personal customisations which are intended to gradually pull the professional non-programmer into being a lisp programmer personally. @vik@astrid
@signaleleven I thought so! But in all seriousness, I think a good point of contrast is the experience people often share with me about their personal development into programming using spreadsheet =FORMULA stuff. @vik@astrid
@vik I read rms' classic article on emacs last week, where he underscores that the point was to drag secretaries who weren't going to be given computer science opportunities into the world of lisp programming by way of customising their officework screen editor for themselves. @astrid
@lightweight yeah I'm trying to work my head around software freedom day, of which @strypey@rik are enthusiastic, but I internally had an I'm-not-totally-sure-I'm-on-board.
@strypey obviously I spoke to them in English, but my sense is that I come across as a bit of a lone street preacher since what I'm saying is directly opposed to the Free Year Micro$oft 365 taught here, for example. So I think a software freedom day visible from both (or all) one's languages would go a million miles for many people here who would often not feel invited to tech conversations. @rik@lightweight@jeremy_list@clacke@bobjonkman@jxself
@strypey Honestly the only name I loosely recognised at the Digital Freedom Foundation was mako.cc and I was barely aware of them. I hope I am quite choosy about what exactly I actively support, so I might not support something simply because of the word freedom or a GPL license if I feel I differ in attitude.
@polezaivsani yeah, I was chewed out by xwindows for having more follow/ers than it's humanly possible to actually know. I try pretty hard to have some idea of everyone ;p. Like look at @timnewsham : Talented father, has a WEP misimplementation attack named after him, incredible beats. Likes Haskell, but can't win 'em all.