"Hal Abelson contributed by holding this report hostage to the appendix on macros." http://t.co/meOY4Gl9ka
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I'm impressed that the Scheme wiki has sexp highlighting on mouseover! E.g. http://t.co/DUUKfFLxCV
It's a behaviour inherited from MATLAB, and will probably be removed at some point.
SLY (a fork of SLIME) has a very slick demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWkVvubnSI
I like that Rust compiles foo.rs to a binary called foo. a.out is a silly name.
It's a shame that Julia does Perl-style nested array flattening: http://t.co/A3HOhjZR01
Incremental GC is coming to Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5227 (much better for soft realtime programs!)
I'm very impressed that @github already has Julia highlighting!
Vanilla Flavored Markdown: http://t.co/c6RtS4qGUo
I'm writing some Common Lisp, and I have to say the developer experience is wonderful. I wish other languages were this good.
Interesting to see that SLIMV (SLIME for Vim) uses highlighted text instead of screenshots of its popups: http://t.co/y6eb0zfZi9
Somehow, a 403 is far worse than a 404 for a dead link. I've done nothing wrong and feel vaguely accused.
What can you do with macros that you can't do with lazy evaluation? http://t.co/puUfpYIASd
Programming Languages as Operating Systems (or Revenge of the Son of the Lisp Machine) http://t.co/MS9bvQHytO
"It is impossible to safely implement any cryptosystem providing forward secrecy in C." http://t.co/jcyseXkmC0
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