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Joe Marshall on how he uses Lisp at work, with a practical (and quite impressive) example

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/lisp-at-work.html

The Xerox PARC alumni who contribute to the Medley Interlisp project shared the buttons they collected at computing conferences in the 1980s and 1990s such as AAAI, IJCAI, SIGGRAPH.

The buttons are awesome and span a range of languages and systems such as Interlisp, Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Unix, Modula-2, Mesa, Pilot, and more. Be sure to go through the whole thread.

https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/ylsMetI3D0I/m/CtGXmMn3AQAJ

What is the main way you access Medley Interlisp?

Lisp sucks. Tell me what's wrong here:

(DEFVAR x 0) ; GLOBAL BADNESS STAYS

(DEFUN dO-StuFf (NUMBer)
(LET ((rEsUlT 1))
(DECLARE (SPECIAL X)) ; THIS IS LEGAL HERE
(SETQ X NUMBER)
(TAGBODY
StaRT
(IF (< X 1) (GO ENDz))
(SETQ rEsUlT (* rEsUlT X))
(SETQ x (- x 1)) ; NOTE: STILL USING GLOBAL x INSTEAD OF LOCAL X
(GO StARt)
ENDz)
(pRiNt (lIsT 'FACtoRiAl-oF NUMBER 'iS rEsUlT))))

(DEFUN nOW-dO-AlL ()
(LET ((I 0))
(LOOP
(WHEN (> i 5) (RETURN))
(Do-sTUFF i)
(SETQ i (+ i 1)))))

(nOW-dO-AlL)

#commonlisp #lisp #sbcl #clisp @amszmidt @screwtape

Here's a new challenge for Lisp folks to figure out.

Why does this fail. And don't give the error message as the answer. WHY does this do what it does?

(defun who-am-i ()
(flet ((x () 'inner))
(labels ((x () (x))) ;;
(x))))

Is the third line calling inner or itself?

Okay you get one second hint: Yes, it overflows. Why?

That is the challenge.

(define Shoshana
(lambda ()
(lambda ()
(lambda ()
(display "Shoshana")))))

(((Shoshana)))

I don't really understand why people are into all the extra lambdas.

#Discord is a terrible communication platform with all its distractions and malfeatures. I've used it to stay in touch with #lisp programmers that are not on IRC nor on fediverse. But today they've crossed the line - they've shown me an ad, an ad that has obfucaed the chat at that. I've disabled the account and not going to use it anymore. Good ridding I guess.

"your lack of capitalization hurts my eyes"

Should we upcase all #lisp code just on principle ?

#peertube #archive #lispyGopherClimate https://communitymedia.video/w/bHafNcgW9jDXM1kdmdsyRo
#unix #emacs #theUnixPhilosophy #lisp #interview

https://codeberg.org/ramin_hal9001/lisp-gopher-climate_chat-about-emacs show #git #notes

@sacha I guess the RSS is https://communitymedia.video/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=216498&token=8cb5dc2f-82e7-4d3f-ad2c-95457f46b631 and I am going to put all the years there including your interviews... eventually. Might need to add subtitled/post-ex-facto video content.

Lispy Gopher Climate 2025 04 02 ramin_hal9001 #emacs #unix #lisp #philosophy #live #interview

https://communitymedia.video/videos/watch/56ba95b7-bd02-4f18-80c9-5cf109de6d80

#archived https://communitymedia.video/w/bHafNcgW9jDXM1kdmdsyRo
#lispyGopherClimate toot #programming #podcast #lisp ! @ramin_hal9001 hosts the show this week https://fe.disroot.org/objects/022fb530-0138-4445-b679-4027981cfeea

Episode repo: https://codeberg.org/ramin_hal9001/lisp-gopher-climate_chat-about-emacs

Listen at: https://archives.anonradio.net/202504020000_screwtape.mp3

This week we will talk about the Unix Philosophy and how it compares and contrasts with whatever one might call the “Emacs Philosophy.”

The impetus for the discussion is a series of blog posts by @ramin_hal9001 called “Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy”:

• The original introductory blog post
• The show notes

…as well as a fascinating discussion that took place over this past week on ActivityPub on the topic of the Unix philosophy and history of Lisp on Unix in which some very knowledgeable people have contributed anecdotes and facts.

#technology #programming #SoftwareEngineering #RetroComputing #lisp #r7rs #SchemeLang #UnixPhilosophy

within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
    company at a distance
    legacy in case of loss

Oh, wow, I know why I'm happy in the control group. #lisp #llm

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/vibe-coding-final-word.html

If #Lisp hackers are looking for copies of dpANS .. all versions, plus mail and all that ... https://tumbleweed.nu/r/dpANS/dir?ci=tip -- the original is long gone.

The SSS project proudly announces support (and encourages) of #btrfs filesystems with #luks #encryption for a secure and resilient #guix experience with a great filesystem that can survive outages, provides modern features (snapshoting, rollbacks, easy backups, etc)

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

SICPelago https://lobste.rs/s/4xxwz9 #lisp
https://belkadan.com/blog/2025/04/SICPelago/

Enough with structure editors, Emacs, and vi. The One True Lisp Editor is clearly Nano.