I love Common Lisp. But I don't think you can look at a list of features and decide if it's a good choice to use or if those features are now "covered" by more recent languages. Not all REPLs (for example) are born…
The linked document isn't representative of books on Lisp or Emacs---it reads like a half-finished idea for a sketch of a pitch for a book. Since it is more than 10 years old, the project likely got abandoned at a very…
"in droves" isn't exactly a neutral expression, either. Says something about how they see workers.
For any laptop, I want at least full hd 15 inch screen, the very best keyboard (centered, without numpad) and a trackpoint. If it comes without dedicated graphics, that's a bonus. This means a thinkpad, afaik. So unless…
Oh, come on, did you mean to be polemic or not? :) I think it's a hard sell to claim that the article was actually directed at a small, perhaps barely existent, group of Unix users who seem to be either afraid of the…
What part of "I'm not saying you can't get pains from a keyboard" is unclear, would you say? As you seem to have missed it, the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist using the mouse. He is calling Unix users…
Actually, there is no need to make guesses about whether cdaddr is bad, unreadable, introduces hard to handle bugs or what the limits of list structure complexity should be. It isn't some new idea or brief historic…
This isn't a very good article. First of all, this has to be the most rehashed curiosa topic about Lisp, ever. Secondly, "keeping in touch with tradition" isn't a shallow thing you do for fun---it is both about identity…
Great article! I like the approach to focus on things that ship per default and take no time to learn! Also didn't know about undo in region!
Don't mean to come off like a zealot. To me, it sounds like the user accessed a show/hide-function in the graphical interface while using the mouse, and then didn't know how to bring it back (Control-Right Click or…
Vim is a fantastic editor---no argument there! But you can always revert a configuration choice you made without restarting Emacs. Either use the built in configuration interface, or evaluate a form with the change. For…
Well, I guess we have different experiences then. That kind of thing hasn't happened to me in 25 years. Not once. The OS could matter, I guess. I didn't even think about that. I used Debian Stable and have been since…
Well, to each their own. I never have to restart Emacs. The only time I restart SLIME is when I do something I shouldn't, like redefine a struct or something. I'm sure I could avoid restarting SLIME, too---I just never…
I mean rock solid as in being able to edit buffers with very different contents of half a million characters, every day for decades without crashing. I wouldn't call what you describe fragile. It sounds more like a…
I find it doesn't really matter what I'm interested in (computer-wise)---Emacs has me covered. It saves a huge amount of time to not have to relearn a new IDE each time I need to switch programming language. There is…
Because that also gives you all the problems of having a Windows machine at the bottom (so to speak): bloat, intrusive updates, bugs, viruses etc. And the IT-department will constantly be on your ass with some new…
To see the REPL and debugger advantages of Common Lisp over other Lisps, Python, Haskell etc., you really should try for yourself in SLIME or SLY (a SLIME fork) imo. But anyway, let's say I made an error somewhere and…
I've used GNU/Linux in large, Windows/Mac dependent companies for 25 years. You need to convince the IT-department, and you need to survive the first week learning how to connect to whatever system is in place, but…
Wow, tell me how you really feel :). It's not a "supposed reputation" though. Nature is listed as a world-leading journal (class 2) by the internationally widely acknowledged research register "Norwegian Register". The…
Nature is a world leading journal with a very rigorous review process. They publish less than a tenth of the (proper) submissions they get. So the science here is likely to have high quality. As for the Guardian…
I'm sure Micro is great, but I doubt it's anywhere even near Vim or Emacs, in any respect. Because it's not "all about keybindings," and claiming that either of those editors is stuck in a local optimum is simply…
Emacs is like Earth. You can't claim to "learn it" or "master it," but it's still the best place to live. Some other editor is more popular now, and in five years, something else will be more popular than that.…
Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :). The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide etc. is because you fail to counter them properly. And as…
Well, Debian is free, open source, is more or less fully documented (and translated!) and has over 50,000 software packages that meticulously tested before the stable release every two years. That's not me being…
I'm surprised you can't see that this counter-article is just plain old FUD. It should be a no-brainer that an operative system that is free, open, democratic, well documented and consisting of over 50,000 quality…
I love Common Lisp. But I don't think you can look at a list of features and decide if it's a good choice to use or if those features are now "covered" by more recent languages. Not all REPLs (for example) are born…
The linked document isn't representative of books on Lisp or Emacs---it reads like a half-finished idea for a sketch of a pitch for a book. Since it is more than 10 years old, the project likely got abandoned at a very…
"in droves" isn't exactly a neutral expression, either. Says something about how they see workers.
For any laptop, I want at least full hd 15 inch screen, the very best keyboard (centered, without numpad) and a trackpoint. If it comes without dedicated graphics, that's a bonus. This means a thinkpad, afaik. So unless…
Oh, come on, did you mean to be polemic or not? :) I think it's a hard sell to claim that the article was actually directed at a small, perhaps barely existent, group of Unix users who seem to be either afraid of the…
What part of "I'm not saying you can't get pains from a keyboard" is unclear, would you say? As you seem to have missed it, the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist using the mouse. He is calling Unix users…
Actually, there is no need to make guesses about whether cdaddr is bad, unreadable, introduces hard to handle bugs or what the limits of list structure complexity should be. It isn't some new idea or brief historic…
This isn't a very good article. First of all, this has to be the most rehashed curiosa topic about Lisp, ever. Secondly, "keeping in touch with tradition" isn't a shallow thing you do for fun---it is both about identity…
Great article! I like the approach to focus on things that ship per default and take no time to learn! Also didn't know about undo in region!
Don't mean to come off like a zealot. To me, it sounds like the user accessed a show/hide-function in the graphical interface while using the mouse, and then didn't know how to bring it back (Control-Right Click or…
Vim is a fantastic editor---no argument there! But you can always revert a configuration choice you made without restarting Emacs. Either use the built in configuration interface, or evaluate a form with the change. For…
Well, I guess we have different experiences then. That kind of thing hasn't happened to me in 25 years. Not once. The OS could matter, I guess. I didn't even think about that. I used Debian Stable and have been since…
Well, to each their own. I never have to restart Emacs. The only time I restart SLIME is when I do something I shouldn't, like redefine a struct or something. I'm sure I could avoid restarting SLIME, too---I just never…
I mean rock solid as in being able to edit buffers with very different contents of half a million characters, every day for decades without crashing. I wouldn't call what you describe fragile. It sounds more like a…
I find it doesn't really matter what I'm interested in (computer-wise)---Emacs has me covered. It saves a huge amount of time to not have to relearn a new IDE each time I need to switch programming language. There is…
Because that also gives you all the problems of having a Windows machine at the bottom (so to speak): bloat, intrusive updates, bugs, viruses etc. And the IT-department will constantly be on your ass with some new…
To see the REPL and debugger advantages of Common Lisp over other Lisps, Python, Haskell etc., you really should try for yourself in SLIME or SLY (a SLIME fork) imo. But anyway, let's say I made an error somewhere and…
I've used GNU/Linux in large, Windows/Mac dependent companies for 25 years. You need to convince the IT-department, and you need to survive the first week learning how to connect to whatever system is in place, but…
Wow, tell me how you really feel :). It's not a "supposed reputation" though. Nature is listed as a world-leading journal (class 2) by the internationally widely acknowledged research register "Norwegian Register". The…
Nature is a world leading journal with a very rigorous review process. They publish less than a tenth of the (proper) submissions they get. So the science here is likely to have high quality. As for the Guardian…
I'm sure Micro is great, but I doubt it's anywhere even near Vim or Emacs, in any respect. Because it's not "all about keybindings," and claiming that either of those editors is stuck in a local optimum is simply…
Emacs is like Earth. You can't claim to "learn it" or "master it," but it's still the best place to live. Some other editor is more popular now, and in five years, something else will be more popular than that.…
Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :). The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide etc. is because you fail to counter them properly. And as…
Well, Debian is free, open source, is more or less fully documented (and translated!) and has over 50,000 software packages that meticulously tested before the stable release every two years. That's not me being…
I'm surprised you can't see that this counter-article is just plain old FUD. It should be a no-brainer that an operative system that is free, open, democratic, well documented and consisting of over 50,000 quality…