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Wed Sep 09 05:26:10 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> srsly gtfo
Wed Sep 09 05:24:44 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> (it does an old version of JS)
Wed Sep 09 05:24:34 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> trinque: I am referring to the latter in reference to gabriel_laddel's assertion javascript should be parsed at all.
Wed Sep 09 05:24:34 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> (partially complete)
Wed Sep 09 05:24:29 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> trinque: he is discussing nope.js, the javascript to parenscript transpiler
Wed Sep 09 05:22:21 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> apt-get install sbcl or whatever.
Wed Sep 09 05:22:11 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: why take my (or anyone else's) word for it, spin up an SBCL REPL.
Wed Sep 09 05:21:08 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> gabriel_laddel: But at some point people want to put arbitray string on their own.
Wed Sep 09 05:20:56 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> trinque: lol, we understand each other. BingoBoingo doesn't though.
Wed Sep 09 05:19:58 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: I swear to you that you can input arbitrary strings in LISP.
Wed Sep 09 05:19:27 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I cut 3 paragraphs from that quote, which are quite relevent to this conversation.
Wed Sep 09 05:17:39 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> <trinque> XML syntax is a heinous misstep that affords little, demands much << It is, and When gabriel_laddel talks massamune unfortunately I read XML or XML with paren
Wed Sep 09 05:17:33 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "On the historical evidence I shall be short. Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians but also somewhat of a coward, was certainly aware of the fate of Galileo —and could probably have predicted the calumniation of Einstein— when he decided to suppress his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, thus leaving it to Bolyai and Lobatchewsky to receive the flak. It is probably more illuminating to go a littl
Wed Sep 09 05:17:33 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> e bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that 'reasoning by analogy' was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see why the two go together. A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today." -- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/
Wed Sep 09 05:17:33 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
Wed Sep 09 05:06:06 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ah
Wed Sep 09 05:05:31 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> trinque: reader macros or macros?
Wed Sep 09 05:04:47 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Reader macros also allow you to deal with syntax mechanically for whatever it's worth.
Wed Sep 09 05:04:40 UTC 2015 <trinque> gabriel_laddel: sounds very nice
Wed Sep 09 05:04:15 UTC 2015 <trinque> BingoBoingo: I would say mr gabriel_laddel has it, that all syntaxes can be done within the lisp system, and simultaneously you find that the vast majority aren't necessary