10 month ago
jcgregorio : Arc's Out - "Character sets are a black hole. I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that's almost offensive, like calling Beijing Peking" and lot's of other self-important twaddle in the announcement.
deusx : Arc's Out - This description of things makes me want to steer a wide course around Arc. ASCII-only? HTML tables? Quick & dirty versus clogged with mud.
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10 month ago
wearehugh : Stevey's Blog Rants: Emergency Elisp - tl;dr :)
Jeremy Zawodny : Emergency Elisp - Emergency Elisp: surprisingly useful
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12 month ago
deusx : ALU Wiki: Daniel Weinreb's Road to Lisp - "How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp? Pretty far. I am one of the designers of Common Lisp."
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20 month ago
deusx : The Truth About Lisp - "Learning lisp will alter your life."
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20 month ago
deusx : Dustin Long's homepage - Kamen Lisp - "allowing web pages to operate with pure, standard compliant Common Lisp. This Firefox extension uses ECL to host a lisp environment, interfacing with the existing Javascript engine only when necessary."
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24 month ago
deusx : Giles Bowkett: What If There Are No Gods? - "Say further that the only difference between a company running Seaside, a company running Rails, and a company running PHP is that the Seaside company has huge balls, the Rails company has some balls, and the PHP company has no balls at all."
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30 month ago
deusx : defmacro - Functional Programming For The Rest of Us - "In this article I will explain the most widely used ideas from functional languages using examples written in Java (yes, you could write functional programs in Java if you felt particularly masochistic)."
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31 month ago
deusx : defmacro - The Nature of Lisp - "my attempt to explain Lisp in familiar, intuitive concepts."
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35 month ago
deusx : Sriram Krishnan : Lisp is sin - "Lisp is like the villainesses present in the Bond movies. It seduces you with its sheer beauty and its allure is irresistible."
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37 month ago
kellan : A modest proposal from #rails-core - after all we've got our own versions of Array, and String! #
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44 month ago
deusx : Greg Trasuk's Weblog - Aha! While writing YAQL I accidentally discovered Lisp - "But it is kind of neat to think that this Aha! moment was triggered by a 1987 coding experience that involved a 1976 book that led me to a 1958 language."
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46 month ago
Andy Baio : Taste for the Web - great parody of Paul Graham; if you get this, you're a geek [via] [via]
deusx : Taste for the Web - Great Paul Graham spoof.
ricmac : Taste for the Web (a Paul Graham parody) {via waxy.org} - "Languages which avoid curly braces attract hackers like a W. Somerset Maugham novel attracts thoughtful and sensitive readers, or a Brueghel painting attracts hackers who are also painters."
Steve Cook : Taste for the Web - It doesn't mention Viaweb often enough, actually.
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deusx : The Little JavaScripter - "JavaScript has much in common with Scheme."
joshua : The Little JavaScripter
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55 month ago
deusx : bknr - Combining an object store, templates, and a web app framework, this makes me think a bit of Radio UserLand for some readon
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