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> Is there an Interlisp echo in today’s development culture? Emacs not mentioned. It better have been.

The question posed is, “With agents, does it become practical to have large codebases that can be read like a narrative, whose prose is kept in sync with changes to the code by tir…

There is a difference. I write a Lisp program, and it runs everywhere Emacs does, including my Android device. I wouldn't do that with Java, as thaw would be extremely impractical.…

Could you provide an example of a Lisp program where macros are overused?

> Bolting packages (module system) on top of symbols leads to some problems in practice. Packages are namespaces, unrelated to modules. They are not used to organize dependencies b…

An ordered pair is a useful data structure, and it's beneficial to have special short names for accessors to its elements. Humanity got very lucky with the names “car” and “cdr”. N…

Note that the value returned by cons is guaranteed to have type cons, and it is guaranteed that a fresh cons is created. Neither is true for list*; note that its return type is t.

If by “abstract” linear algebra you mean “course that starts with the definition of vector space”, then it is geometric enough in the sense Artin talks about. It is pedagogically a…

There may be different aspects to programs like this. They may provide calls, they may provide some other features that are significant to understand their influence on users but n…

Another evidence that linear algebra concepts are terribly confusing when layed out without geometric background. This had been criticised for decades. Competently and popularly pr…

For a non-technical text about a basic, broadly-appealing topic, this has disappointingly high level of mentions of something called “FaceTime”. I have not yet read it all but I al…

So-called “anti-piracy” measures are futile. As long as something can be played back, it can be recorded, copied, re-played. If watermarks become an issue, people will develop meth…

> even if he was openly anti-Putin and supported opposition in any way This implies he does not support opposition in any way. This is not true. He does support opposition rallies—…

Works fine now, thanks! Sorry I made noise like this, I tried to find alternative channels of communication that presumably should work when someone cannot login via web for any re…

It looks like it's now impossible to login to gitlab.com web interface via Tor. I only post it here because it was a recent sudden silent change that made gitlab.com unavailable to…

> Live cheaply > Be indepenedently wealthy Both are very good suggestions. And I don't think there are better ones around.

There's a fairly well-known 2018 book on why education (higher and lower) is the way it is now: Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Ti…

1. Everyone (except maybe for murderers and insane people) is a master of their body, so other people have no right at all to decide whether a sane non-murderer should be able to e…

• I don't want to admin a server. • I don't understand what does it mean “to own a domain name”, what kind of ID is it tied to. • I'd have to write a spam-resilient js-free https-f…

Unless you go with commercial Lisps, you likely won't get far without Emacs. Thus, one option to consider (esp. if you're not fond of learning by the book) is to just start learnin…

I believe it's important to find a community which would offer quality real-time help. I've seen some, and the really good one was not in English so I can't recommend it, I guess. …

I'm sorry but your comment will be grossly misleading to people unfamiliar with the language. There's absolutely nothing painful about If and Function. However, I must note that in…

Everything should be S-expressions, not just HTML.