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However, given some massively inferior “tools”, you can get sufficient challenge and fun out of a day’s work that you never get your head above the water and see what is really going on: An industry-w…

… you would realize at least one of several really uncomfortable things: (1) The way people store “information” in files is so approximate as to make you crazy, (2) Those who use databases usually do…

Another nice thing about Suns is their simplicity. You know how a LispM is always jumping into that awful, hairy debugger with the confusing backtrace display, and expecting you to tell it how to proc…

The whole phone just seems so overloaded. Everything is bursting with functionality, but I don’t feel like discovering any of it. http://jacksonfish.com/2014/05/22/a-user-experience-designer-switches…

… when a computer program beats a grandmaster at chess, the two are not using even remotely similar algorithms. The grandmaster can explain why it seemed worth sacrificing the knight for strategic adv…

I do most of that work with a tool called Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails does for web developers what a toilet-installing robot would do for plumbers. (Web development is more like plumbing than any of…

– Paul Graham, “ANSI Common Lisp”…

From http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=1495 I now realise that there are several issues conflated into a false dichotomy of static/dynamic. 1. type expressivity (ML, Haskell, and Scala even more so) 2.…

C and C++ are firmly stuck in the early 80’s as far as processor design is concerned.  Common Lisp never was stuck anywhere in the first place, which means it has had a hard time sticking to something…

this http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3154816073744645@naggum.no.html…