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I love Common Lisp. But I don't think you can look at a list of features and decide if it's a good choice to use or if those features are now "covered" by more recent languages. No…

The linked document isn't representative of books on Lisp or Emacs---it reads like a half-finished idea for a sketch of a pitch for a book. Since it is more than 10 years old, the …

"in droves" isn't exactly a neutral expression, either. Says something about how they see workers.

For any laptop, I want at least full hd 15 inch screen, the very best keyboard (centered, without numpad) and a trackpoint. If it comes without dedicated graphics, that's a bonus. …

Oh, come on, did you mean to be polemic or not? :) I think it's a hard sell to claim that the article was actually directed at a small, perhaps barely existent, group of Unix users…

What part of "I'm not saying you can't get pains from a keyboard" is unclear, would you say? As you seem to have missed it, the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist usin…

Hahaha, like you are some sort of brave free-thinker for using the mouse! There are tons of reasons for preferring the keyboard, one of which is to alleviate the hand and shoulder …

First of all, there are plenty of different data structures in Common Lisp. I don't know any Lisp resource that will tell you or encourage you to use lists for everything. For exam…

Actually, there is no need to make guesses about whether cdaddr is bad, unreadable, introduces hard to handle bugs or what the limits of list structure complexity should be. It isn…

This isn't a very good article. First of all, this has to be the most rehashed curiosa topic about Lisp, ever. Secondly, "keeping in touch with tradition" isn't a shallow thing you…

Great article! I like the approach to focus on things that ship per default and take no time to learn! Also didn't know about undo in region!

I just wanted to say: Great article! It made me wanna try out Guix!

Don't mean to come off like a zealot. To me, it sounds like the user accessed a show/hide-function in the graphical interface while using the mouse, and then didn't know how to bri…

You should probably tell Emacs users about it---they may not have noticed.

Vim is a fantastic editor---no argument there! But you can always revert a configuration choice you made without restarting Emacs. Either use the built in configuration interface, …

Well, I guess we have different experiences then. That kind of thing hasn't happened to me in 25 years. Not once. The OS could matter, I guess. I didn't even think about that. I us…

No, the definition of fragile is that if you use something in a wrong way, it breaks. But Emacs doesn't break. It obeys and keeps running. With your reasoning, all software that gi…

Well, to each their own. I never have to restart Emacs. The only time I restart SLIME is when I do something I shouldn't, like redefine a struct or something. I'm sure I could avoi…

I mean rock solid as in being able to edit buffers with very different contents of half a million characters, every day for decades without crashing. I wouldn't call what you descr…

I find it doesn't really matter what I'm interested in (computer-wise)---Emacs has me covered. It saves a huge amount of time to not have to relearn a new IDE each time I need to s…

Because that also gives you all the problems of having a Windows machine at the bottom (so to speak): bloat, intrusive updates, bugs, viruses etc. And the IT-department will consta…

To see the REPL and debugger advantages of Common Lisp over other Lisps, Python, Haskell etc., you really should try for yourself in SLIME or SLY (a SLIME fork) imo. But anyway, le…

I've used GNU/Linux in large, Windows/Mac dependent companies for 25 years. You need to convince the IT-department, and you need to survive the first week learning how to connect t…

Wow, tell me how you really feel :). It's not a "supposed reputation" though. Nature is listed as a world-leading journal (class 2) by the internationally widely acknowledged resea…

Nature is a world leading journal with a very rigorous review process. They publish less than a tenth of the (proper) submissions they get. So the science here is likely to have hi…