What happened to lambda-the-ultimate.org? Seems to be unreachable, and goggling about it hasn't turned up anything for me. It always had a limited group of active participants; but I enjoyed lurking and learning from the discussions of programming language theory.
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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#2Well, the Google Cache[1] shows it as last snap-shotted at Apr 2, 2022 05:48:34 GMT, and the captured page doesn't have any announcement about the site shutting down or anything. If I had to guess, I'd say it went down because of a server crash or some network issue. The open question, if I'm correct, is "will it be back up, and if so, when?" Not sure about that. I hope it is coming back though, as it's a site I also enjoyed perusing from time to time.
[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XjPUGeG...
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#3Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in /home/ltu/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#4It's actually been down for over a week already (maybe even two), my guess is that they don't have the thing monitored and it'll only get fixed once it reaches the admin's ear
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#5I haven't visited for a while but for the last couple years I thought that even for the usually low, but high quality, post frequency for it the site seemed to have slowed down to unusually low posting frequency.
Sad to see it go but it might just have self died.
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#6Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in /home/ltu/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31 Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111
This is the actual response after waiting for a while, not sure why the downvotes.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#7I used to love reading this site, but haven't in a long time.
The only other place I know that discusses PL stuff is https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/. The discussion there's not always high quality, but sometimes there are interesting topics.
Does anyone know of any other good places where PL theory and topics are are discussed?
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#8Used to visit this site almost daily back in the 00s, but I thought it had fizzled out as an active site years ago?
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#9I used to love reading this site, but haven't in a long time. The only other place I know that discusses PL stuff is https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/ . The discussion there's not always high quality, but sometimes there are interesting topics. Does anyone know of any other good places where PL theory and topics are are discussed?
/r/compilers too, maybe.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
#10A lot of different stuff:
The language wars largely ended, with the more popular languages folding in a lot of the more (at the time) esoteric features.
DSLs have fallen out of favor.
Javascript took over for a bit (although I believe that is receding.)
LtU was a great place for about a decade when the internet was getting going, moving language discussions out of the mailing lists, which were pretty isolated, and into a general forum. It was a great place for a while, and I anticipate it might be a great one again if DSLs resurge in popularity.
Speaking of which, here is mine :)