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"Graph Database" is what mainframe systems have been successfully using under other names for 80 years.

ITA started doing everything in Lisp, but especially as the original coding founder left, started hiring people doing stuff in Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, shell, C++, PL/SQL, etc. Th…

New in std library: an S3 client, an SMTP client, SSL for Postgres (enables Heroku support), better CLI support (including multicall binaries), and plenty of module updates. Plus a…

Gerbil Scheme https://cons.io > just saw its release v0.18, with many usability and documentation upgrades, and a bunch of new functionality in the standard library. A "meta-dialec…

MuKn | Remote, all timezones | Full-time or contract | https://mukn.io/ _Mutual Knowledge Systems_ https://mukn.io is hiring a project manager, a network protocol engineer, a crypt…

Les mathématiciens sont comme les Français: quoiqu'on leur dise, ils le traduisent dans leur propre langue, et cela devient alors quelque chose de complètement différent. — Johann …

And what is Arc in?

My current setup does not compare favorably with Emacs/slime at this point. I use screen, I call a build script in one shell REPL, I use gerbil-mode in Emacs in the other, reload'i…

Executing fasls is cool, but they will start from a new empty image, and loading fasls is actually kind of slow, so if you use lots of libraries rather than write a trivial example…

I wrote cl-launch so you can use #!/usr/bin/cl with lots of options and write scripts that are either portable or implementation-specific (and trivially switch from one implementat…

Interestingly, I just added a section on Gerbil, the Lisp dialect I have adopted instead of PLT, for many personal reasons.

I once tried ChanL but it was buggy, and concurrency bugs are the worst to debug. lparallel on the other hand was solid to me, though I didn't like its API and had to (trivially) b…

I have a chapter in preparation that addresses the comparison with Urbit.

The slides are meant to support a talk. What will be more worthy of publication will be the video for the talk, when it's edited and uploaded. In the meantime, there is a bad recor…

Yes, but the interesting part is wetware metaprogramming.