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Any ANSI Compliant CL will work on all implementations that are ANSI compliant So in short, yes, except for any third party libraries

I really enjoyed reading this, thank you for sharing. Love the screenshots!

It’s hard because subscription services hit a sweet spot in human psychology - cheap on a monthly basis so many are happy (can you go back to paying 400$ for software unless it’s s…

For a small business, heck for most of us, that’s too much

Well unless people are selling their hacker news accounts, it’s seems genuine and I just think the poster was very appreciative and hence posting. Sometimes we can all be too cynic…

Congratulations on it. I use Common Lisp myself, but always great to see energy and passion in other languages, especially in the Lisp family of languages (but I am clearly biased)…

Does sublime support vim keys?

From all accounts, this seems to be cashing out and getting retail to hold the bag before the hype train ends Unfortunate state of affairs

Great work and congrats!

You see, Show HN is usually for toy projects. Something bigger could be Launch HN ;) I guess people really like building Lisps, glad to see their infectious energy. But I do get yo…

I have come to understand that I really enjoy reading about difficult concepts and then meticulously explaining them to others in a clear manner. I have started blogging about Lisp…

Thanks, that’s a good perspective

I am enjoying Twitter a lot. I use it for maybe 5 minutes every few days (no notifications so I only login when I remember), and I see some interesting posts from people I like, pr…

Thanks for the link, I will have a read

Yeah one should know why it’s important to normalize, and then when they go a different path, it is done consciously and not because they are inexperienced and didn’t really know a…

Static typing is generally a good thing…I thought this was common sense. Abstractions are very powerful, but when many people work on a codebase, keeping extra checks via static ty…

SQL is an important skill to have, in particular one should learn about database normalization and the normal forms - very important stuff!

This is awesome! Touch ID is a great feature, especially for computers (I am not sure how Face ID can ergonomically work for approving purchases as one is always staring at the scr…

There are no local libraries here but perhaps once I head to my home country, I can reach out to local schools & universities for this