Notices by Daniel Schildt (autiomaa@mementomori.social)

Story of what happens when the most skilled scientists in the world get deported because of racism and xenophobia:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54695598

#history #science #research

@amszmidt @m3tti Larger context of that blog post (by Malcolm McCrimmon) is on the higher level concepts instead of the “syntax or not syntax” arguments.

Malcolm McCrimmon writes:
“Just as Lisp macros are powerful because they can operate on any Lisp code, including themselves, Smalltalk classes are powerful because they themselves are objects. Smalltalk, like Lisp, runs in the same context it’s written in. It’s objects all the way down.”
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

That was the reason why I originally posted a snippet to the blog post. Language as a data(flow) in itself, instead of a language for operating on a separate data(flow).

@m3tti @amszmidt At least a lot of people build their own versions of Lisp with very different kinds of programming language structures. Even while PG is likely a “bit” off from the technical viewpoint, on a conceptual level it has at least some match with the reality.

Paul Graham wrote about Lisp programming:

"Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed."
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

#programming #Lisp

@matt @badnetmask At least they got to use those leftover game assets from the closed game world project. Most of the original emoticons on Slack are descendants of a failed online game. It was the second failed game company by the same founders. First failed game company turned into Flickr, second to Slack.