Sokratischer Dialog in Klammern: "Der Reiz des Exotischen" in der c't (1985) via @internetarchive

Teil 1: https://archive.org/details/ct-1985.05/C%27t%20-%201985.07/page/38/mode/2up

Teil 2: https://archive.org/details/ct-1985.05/C%27t%20-%201985.08/page/36/mode/2up

#LISP

doing metaprogramming in javascript through babel/traverse makes me realize how brilliant lisp 'fixed point' syntax is

#js #lisp #metaprogramming #ast #sexp #homoiconicity

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!

From what I understand ML got the "let" construct from LCF, and I cannot find any resources that document any Lisp-y "let" before the late 1970s. The first Scheme report only has "labels" for function definitions, but no "let". The first revised report mentions "let" (p. 9), but doesn't comment on an origin. In Maclisp there appears to be no let in 1978, but it is documented in 1983. I suspect that the special form was difficult to use when Lisps used "go" and "prog"?

#Lisp #ML #History

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115762510978869082

There are different ways of defining Interlisp macros depending on the type of behavior such as inlining, substitution (similar to C macros), or computation (similar to defmacro of Common Lisp) like in the screenshot.

https://interlisp.org/documentation/IRM.pdf#page=137

#interlisp #lisp

#readingNow #lisp #commonLisp #elisp #emacs #eev #interactive #programming

@eduardoochs just linked me to https://anggtwu.net/2025-badly-behaved.html which I am obviously excited about. Applying the simple eev mode to 'badly behaved' repl targets like (US DOE's CAS) maxima, #slime, and #sly with eepitch. Video and hand-annotated transcript with screenshots.