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amszmidt

@amszmidt@mastodon.social

sauerpunk gnu hacker / software freedom or bust / wizard of zymurgy / lisp machine revolutionary / professional curmudgeon

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amszmidt, to random
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Scheme is not Lisp. Bite me.

amszmidt,
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@louis Nope, you cannot run a basic Lisp program in Scheme. There are plenty of standardized definitions of Lisp, we can start with .. Lisp 1.5.

amszmidt,
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@louis Lisp is not just about how your variables, and functions are managed. Given a Lisp 1.5, with a similar vocabulary, etc, which differentiates between variables and functions -- I'd call that a Lisp.

Scheme though, it is not the same language, it has not the same vocabulary, syntax.

Given a non-trivial program in Scheme, you will need to rewrite it for it to work in Lisp.

amszmidt,
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@louis If all that matters is symbolic expressions for a language to be another, PHP is a C, and C is a Javascript. Reductio ad absurdum...

dekkzz76, to random
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OK Lispers is GNU Clisp any better or worse than any other implementation ?

amszmidt,
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@hayley @dekkzz76 @pizzapal @rwxrwxrwx What is wrong with #GNU libsigsegv (asking, since I maintain it).

amszmidt, to random
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Trying to process all #LispM #LispMachine patches; so that I can work on the CADR HDL.

amszmidt,
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@amoroso General term for languages that model hardware for FPGA / ASIC.

rml, to random

Damn I'm looking at the #LISPM chat and reminded how nice #fossil is
https://tumbleweed.nu/r/bug-lispm/chat

amszmidt,
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@rml update it. ;-)

amszmidt,
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@rml Don't you see the pretty screenshot I made? 😎

wchr, to random
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Just saw this in my Android Chrome.

A 'got it' button, and everything 'on' by default.

It's depressing that we let Google with its $280bn surveillance business and extreme infrastructural power unilaterally push its new 'privacy'-branded profiling tech directly into the dominant browser.

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amszmidt,
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@wchr "We let"? There are lots of organizations and individuals, from the @fsf @fsfe to @eff to the GNU project that have been actively working against evil corporations like Google, Microsoft, doing exactly this. Easiest way to work against this is to avoid Javascript where evil corp gets to control your computer (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html)

randomgeek, to random

Found the #KeyboardIO Atreus during our big office migration. It got lost behind a bookshelf. Plugged it in and woo baby twenty words per minute.

amszmidt,
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@mos_8502 @mjgardner @randomgeek @jesse That is .. unusable. As a touch typist, it is an imperative to have balanced buckies.

amszmidt,
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@mos_8502 @mjgardner @randomgeek @jesse We will never be friends, the only right place for Control is right beside Space. (I LOVE the unshifted 1234567890 row though!)

amszmidt,
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@mos_8502 @mjgardner It is unbound in Emacs, and mostly unused in GNOME (some window/frame functions but that is it). Present day it is called "Windows" -- such a abomination.

amszmidt,
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@mjgardner @mos_8502 Nah, it survived thanks to X.

amoroso, to random
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Here are some Mastodon users I enjoy following for their retrocomputing and coding projects, and you may like too:

@amszmidt rediscovers and revives the software of MIT-derived Lisp Machines

@thelastpsion collects, revives, and codes software and resources for Psion handheld devices

@swetland writes a Pascal compiler that targets the Z80

@6502B makes accurate miniatures of historical and fictional computer systems

#retrocomputing #lisp #compilers

amszmidt,
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@amoroso @thelastpsion @swetland @6502B Shout out to @larsbrinkhoff @eswenson and @aap doing ITS/PDP-10, #LispM and what not #retrocomputing -- the PDP-10 was the first #LispMachine.

amszmidt, to random
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#LispM NEWDRAW has been restored. It was a EDA tool used to design the Lisp Machine used at LMI in the early 80s. #LispMachine revolution is nigh!

amszmidt, to random
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#LispM #LispMachine hacking; when you need an Tree Insect Pest Expert!

amszmidt,
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@amoroso It is a quite interesting little program, written if I understand it by Linda Churchman around 1983. I have not been able to find much more information than that ... it uses the Emycin engine whatever that might be.

amszmidt,
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@amoroso unfamiliar with it, any references?

fsf, to random
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Emacs does just about anything! Get the most out of #emacs with GNU Emacs Manual, Nineteenth edition, for Emacs version 27.2 from #GNUPress https://u.fsf.org/3ff

amszmidt,
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@louis @fsf would you, or anyone else, maybe be interested in making a new edition?

amszmidt,
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@louis @fsf so the FSF isn’t really responsible for producing new editions, it would be the GNU project (GNU Emacs specifically); I would try reaching out on emacs-devel@ first and see what type of work is needed first before considering publishing work.

amszmidt, to fediverse
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#LispMachine Revolution continues. Now you can talk to other #LispM hackers over global Chaosnet. This is the true #fediverse!

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amszmidt, to random
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#LispM #LispMachine hacking continues at a unprecedented speed! One more patch, System 100.7 is out. Right now enjoying a compile of MACSYMA. For a change of fun, complemented screen from the usual white background/black characters.

amszmidt,
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@amoroso good thing it’s not default.

amszmidt, to random
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#LispM #LispMachine Running LM-Prolog for probobly the first time in some decades.

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