miniblog.

Jan 14, 2023 at 20:31

I like the concept of a REPL: an interactive environment where you can redefine code and evaluate snippets to see the result. I try to avoid the term "REPL" though. Most languages don't use "read" for parsing (the R) and it's confusing. Are there good alternatives?

Mar 20, 2026 at 12:02

223

Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain. I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!

Environment and the programming language Self (part one; environment)

I bring you a message about a language that has been at the birth of many others, but almost no one knows it. A rumor of a graphical environment offering options like no other, but almost no one using it. I also bring information about a virtual machine supporting reflection almost to infinity, reaching almost half of the operating power of C in numerical calculations in its time, yet today forgotten.

Jun 9, 2024 at 20:47

The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices:

Why bother with Scripting?

Oct 3, 2023 at 03:48

Achievement unlocked: when trying to work around an Emacs bug with long lines and pipes: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6149#19 I hit a bug in Cask, the Emacs environment manager! https://github.com/cask/cask/pull/596 Software is hard.

#6149 - 24.0.50; shell buffer overflow when input longer than 4096 bytes - GNU bug report logs

Fix Makefile compatibility with recent GNU Make by Wilfred · Pull Request #596 · cask/cask

GNU Make will directly invoke simple commands[1], which causes the following error when installing Cask: make: which: No such file or directory bin/cask install make: -c: No such file or directory ...

Related Posts