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some-mthfka

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    Comment #34468817

    You are absolutely on point, yes. The building blocks themselves are what the users will extend upon and use. That plays a very big role in composition and reuse. There will also b…

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    Comment #34447440

    > If I'm understanding this correctly, with your Lisp IDE you could have an image sub-editor which may expose functions for image modification (eg. cropping), which could be called…

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    Comment #34428484

    > eco The eco article is quite interesting, it's a cool proof-of-concept. I don't know exactly how it compares, but there's also tylr, with an online demo you can check out [1]. > …

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    Comment #34427714

    Hey, thanks, I have recognized your nick, nyxt is a cool project : )

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    Comment #34427705

    I am not sure I understand the question, but, for instance, Lem is an emacs-inspired CL editor. Not structural or even hierarchical though.

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    Comment #34427011

    Update: I have updated the power-of-structure article with a section on accessibility. Copypasting: It's important to think about issues such as accessibility in advance. I am basi…

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    Comment #34423350

    Thanks for mentioning Sourcehut, somehow is just didn't come up when I was researching the mailing list options. So far, looks like it has a really streamlined interface and is mea…

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    Comment #34418070

    Huh, interesting. I should try to learn more about STEPS in general some time...

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    Comment #34415349

    My point isn't so much to reinvent Git's model (aka tree of blobs/commit/commit-graph), but rather to make it a part of a programmable interactive environment, and then just do the…

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    Comment #34413442

    The thing about power-user software is that you can customize and package it to the point where it's indistinguishable from any other software, a polished end-user experience -- th…

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    Comment #34410930

    Oh, boy, how did I miss that one... heh. You have a point there, I have thrown in a TLDR.

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    Comment #34410924

    Good question. (Incidentally, it provides a good example for my words in the comment you have replied to.) Words could be objects. But I will tell you more: you can start breaking …

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    Comment #34409847

    Time is going to get by whether we like it or not. Here it is, by the way: https://project-mage.org/elevator

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    Comment #34409463

    Absolutely, it's image-based. I have considered Smalltalk, but I like macros a bit too much. I am pretty sure CL code will have better performance too, but don't quote me on this. …

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    Comment #34408916

    > Javas class and object system I can't stress enough how important and helpful prototype OO has been to the current design. I couldn't imagine doing what I want to do without it. …

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    Comment #34408689

    You know, I really haven't thought about that, but now that you mention it, I have heard before that in Emacs, the advice facility is very useful to the goal. Well, all I can say i…

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    Comment #34408470

    Ha, maybe : )

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    Comment #34408451

    Thanks : ) I will do my best to deliver.

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    Comment #34408437

    I can't edit the top post, as it was posted a few days back, and the thread has resurfaced. Currently, I am preparing an "elevator pitch" (as a few people have suggested me do), an…

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    Comment #34408364

    STEPS is a very interesting project, indeed. I don't think it was quite a failure, after all, they did Nile and Gezira, which was pretty cool (powerful vector graphics rendering in…

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    Comment #34408325

    > Flexibility interacts poorly with composability. > Flexibility usually interacts poorly with performance as well. I disagree fundamentally. I believe there's such a thing as the …

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    Comment #34408290

    The linear-algebra provides a usability layer to April (an APL compiler). The geometry is just geometry with intersections (Its pretty cool in that it has planes, infinite sections…

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    Comment #34408245

    Haha, alright. I have a github profile https://github.com/some-mthfka I am not particularly proud of most of those projects. Many of them were strictly done for fun. Some of them I…

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    Comment #34384690

    Yep. I will have to add it to the article (and why it's insufficient as well).

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    Comment #34384649

    Alright : )