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by findinglisp
Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:04 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?
Replies: 4
Views: 22830

Re: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?

BTW, here's a great example of how malleable Lisp is in general. It's a library for Clojure that adds a completely new multi-method dispatch algorithm that mimics some of the CLOS dispatch mechanisms used in Common Lisp: https://github.com/camsaul/methodical It's just a library and is not part of th...
by findinglisp
Thu Sep 12, 2019 6:50 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: LispForum looking for a long-term home
Replies: 6
Views: 34103

Re: LispForum looking for a long-term home

Thanks to Bogdan for hosting LispForum. It works!
by findinglisp
Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:38 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?
Replies: 4
Views: 22830

Re: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?

Thanks for the warm welcome, and the background info! I think I've discovered I'm a PL geek. :D As I come across interesting concepts in different languages, I feel the urge to learn more languages, if only for the fun of it. If it's any indicator, I have hello-worlded in Haskell. ;) I'm not quite ...
by findinglisp
Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:10 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: LispForum looking for a long-term home
Replies: 6
Views: 34103

Re: LispForum looking for a long-term home

I've had a few people reach out to me on continuing to host LispForum. Thank you all! I'm working with somebody right now and we'll see if we can't make the transition. Here's to continuing the LispForum tradition!
by findinglisp
Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:53 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?
Replies: 4
Views: 22830

Re: Have you moved to Lisp to ESCAPE another language?

I think almost every Lisper has a similar story. I started programming 40 years ago in BASIC, spend a lot of time with C and later C++, spent time with Java, dabbled with Ruby and Python, and found Common Lisp shortly after Paul Graham started writing about it. In truth, I had used Common Lisp back ...
by findinglisp
Sat Aug 17, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: LispForum looking for a long-term home
Replies: 6
Views: 34103

LispForum looking for a long-term home

Folks, I have decided that I'd like to find LispForum a better home long term. I have it running on a shared hosting account at Ionos and the costs are extremely low (basically incrementally free with my account except for the yearly domain name registration). But I haven't been able to devote much ...
by findinglisp
Sat Aug 17, 2019 9:55 am
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Forum Upgrade: And we're back!
Replies: 0
Views: 42297

Forum Upgrade: And we're back!

Sorry about that. LispForum has been offline for the past couple of days while I performed an upgrade. Unfortunately, there were lots of moving parts associated with upgrading from phpBB 3.0.x to 3.2.x. I believe that all that is back to normal, however. Send me a direct message if you experience an...
by findinglisp
Thu Nov 28, 2013 9:52 am
Forum: Emacs
Topic: Help with cut and paste in emacs
Replies: 8
Views: 35470

Re: Help with cut and paste in emacs

IMO, if you're going to use Emacs a lot, get used to the native command bindings and avoid CUA mode. Unfortunately, CUA mode conflicts with C-x and C-c which are the two major prefix keys. You couldn't pick two worse key bindings to conflict with if you tried. While CUA mode might be able to manage ...
by findinglisp
Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:21 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Original Lisp Eliza added to Eliza Gen collection
Replies: 3
Views: 16720

Re: Original Lisp Eliza added to Eliza Gen collection

Very cool. One of the first programs I studied in my college AI class was Eliza. :)
by findinglisp
Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:49 am
Forum: Other Tools
Topic: .
Replies: 5
Views: 33181

Re: Text Editors with CL syntax aides

If you really want to take the red pill with Lisp, Emacs is the only long-term choice, IMO. It's turtles all the way down from there.