corinroyal

Thanks, Don. That's a lot of great history to start chewing on.

Wait, you created April, one of the most amazing hosted languages on Lisp just to learn Lisp? Wow! And here I am toiling over a simple CRUD library management app trying to figure out CLOS and it's not even going well.

April is a revelation and I'm putting it in my framework. APL reminds me of Leibniz's alphabet of concepts for his calculus ratiocinator. So gorgeous and efficient. I'm getting the keyboard.

Memex as a name for a "vibe coding" platform is just trolling.

hand-wringing

A sentence is not a paragraph.

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Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make more. This is how it's done in America. I don't know what's wrong with Europeans that they can't figure this out.

Fewer

Common Lisp, XMPP, HTML/HTTP, DITA, XML, Git, ssh, Rsync, Nginx, Firefox, GIMP, Debian, EXTFS, HP-GL, bash, Emacs, TeX, PDF, Bittorrent.

It's good when people act based on morality and encourage others to do so.

What are the best general products (i.e. you ask for the topic and it teaches vs. specialized) that can teach you about a topic using AI