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Probably irrelevant. There would anyway be some number N of operating systems, and a number K of computers, and the number K will always be very much larger than N. So there would …

ctrl-C Has worked in message boxes for years.

sbcl (and other Common Lisps) uses what you want it to use: read-default-float-format (setf read-default-float-format 'single-float) (+ 0.1 0.2) => 0.3 (setf read-default-float-for…

Isn't this the same as the pq-formula? https://www.matteboken.se/lektioner/matte-2/andragradsekvati... (Link in Swedish).

> ... you should bear in mind that the Church Turing thesis is valid only for functions N->N This is not correct. The concept of algorithm has nothing intrinsic to do with natural …

Relevant: https://www.norwegianamerican.com/norsk/the-coining-of-quisl... Unfortunately the caption is omitted, but is at least retold just below the middle of the article: 'It dep…

Algol (60) had if-expressions, as did Simula 67 (based on Algol): x := if (y = 0) then 0 else 4 / y

> ...I value your opinion... And I value your work on this book. I apologize for having said at the beginning that "This makes the book untrustworthy, whatever good features it mig…

Following your link: "3. It causes the symbol to become a constant variable." and following the link to constant variable: "constant variable n. a variable, the value of which can …

I'm not sure pointing out undefined behaviour is nitpicking. It could in some cases be crucial. At the very least, it ties your code to only some Common Lisp implementations. I kno…

In the first installment of this series, the author use := for assignment, instead of setf. This is at least using undefined behaviour, as keywords are meant to be constant symbols…

I get 10:26pm until NaN:NaNpm Probably because I am in Northern Norway (Midnight Sun).