Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Erik, thanks for the long post! Just in short: > 'Learn PicoLisp the Hard Way' I totally agree. This would be a great project, I'm ready to join. Same for Stack Overflow support. > And let's make sure said landing page is served over HTTPS. It's 2017. Yes, yes, I know ;) In fact, it is on

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread pd
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Erik Gustafson wrote: > > > 'Learn PicoLisp the Hard Way' > > What do you think? > I think it's a terrific idea and I'm volunteer to work on it > > > Let's build picolisp.com from scratch. Still in written in PicoLisp, duh! > Make it a simple, beautiful, moder

Re: Subscribe

2017-02-23 Thread Erik Gustafson
Hi Chuck, Welcome to the community :) Just curious, what led you to PicoLisp? Best, Erik On Feb 23, 2017 8:16 PM, "Chuck Jackson" wrote: > I've spent several days looking into PicoLisp. It looks very good. > Thanks > Chuck Jackson >

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2017-02-23 Thread Chuck Jackson
I've spent several days looking into PicoLisp. It looks very good. Thanks Chuck Jackson

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Erik Gustafson
Hey all, Another long post. TLDR: leave the core language development strategy untouched, re-redo the website, and migrate documentation to GitHub/Stack Overflow. Re: Git(Hub) for the core language... I'm also on Alex's side here. His time for core development is invaluable. We would be wise t

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Joh-Tob Schäg
T Am 23.02.2017 22:52 schrieb "Lindsay John Lawrence" < lawrence.lindsayj...@gmail.com>: > I am relatively new to picolisp, with limited knowledge of its development > history... but I'll politely disagree with some suggestions here regarding > making the core more 'popular' and open to 'collabora

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Lindsay John Lawrence
I am relatively new to picolisp, with limited knowledge of its development history... but I'll politely disagree with some suggestions here regarding making the core more 'popular' and open to 'collaborative' development. Bandwagon collaboration may in all likelihood dull the scapel and result in

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Rowan Thorpe
On 23 February 2017 at 19:45, Alexander Burger wrote: > ..[snip].. > > checkout hook to force a full build after checkout. It was years ago, > > and I can't find them now that I search for them, but I remember it > > was not too difficult to implement (and I'll keep an eye out for them > > Yes, di

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Michel Pelletier
There is a tool called metastore meant specifically to use with vcs hooks to save and restore file metadata. https://github.com/przemoc/metastore -Michel On Feb 23, 2017 9:52 AM, "Alexander Burger" wrote: > Hi Jakob, Rowan, > > thanks for the good hints! > > > "alea iacta est". However - just

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On 2017-02-23 18:45, Alexander Burger wrote: > I won't use such a repo based system here. Period. Ok, then we have status quo, or if someone steps up and becomes what Alan Cox for many years was to the Linus and the Linux kernel. Basically a maintainer, merging between distributions (users) an

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jakob, Rowan, thanks for the good hints! > "alea iacta est". However - just in case you are not already aware - > since version 2.2.2 git now only updates modification times on > *changed* files during checkout (see > https://github.com/git/git/commit/c5326bd62b7e168ba1339dacb7ee812d0fe98c7c),

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Rowan Thorpe
[Sorry this is a bit long, I tried to make each point as concise as possible without missing the point. Also, I know some of the git-usage details below are well-known already but I include them for context, and for whoever reads this and is less familiar with git] On 23 February 2017 at 08:55, Al

Re: Future of PicoLisp?

2017-02-23 Thread Jakob Eriksson
https://medium.com/@sitapati/the-impact-github-is-having-on-your-software-career-right-now-6ce536ec0b50#.krwczgbrq > 23 feb. 2017 kl. 07:55 skrev Alexander Burger : > > Thanks to all who contributed to this thread!! I agree with most of what you > said. > > However, we are mixing up three diff

Re: fishing for answers

2017-02-23 Thread Lindsay John Lawrence
Ah. I missed the distinction between 'any and 'lst. As in... (fish 'fun 'any) -> lst vs say... (filter 'fun 'lst ..) -> lst Thank you. /Lindsay On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Lindsay, > > > (de odd? (X) (bit? 1 X) ) > > ... > > : (odd? 1) -> 1 > > : (odd? 2)