Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-26 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Thank you Lindsay! Since there seems to be some interest in a tutorial and some more examples, I will try to write something suitable and adapt the programs mentioned in the presentation to serve as examples. Might take some time, but I will do my best! Mattias On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:56:47AM

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-26 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi Rick, Thanks! I think this point is important and sadly forgotten in the IT world of today. We focus a lot in the next speedy machines and gigantic storage capabilities about to arrive, but we forget our own capacity. Maybe the current interest in AI and machine learning is people trying to

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-26 Thread Lindsay Lawrence
Thanks for sharing the presentation. Nice insights and a reminder of the 'full-stack' functionality available in picolisp. I've mostly utilized it on the 'server-side'. I would be very interested to hear more detail around how you built out the gui. /Lindsay On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:27 AM Matt

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-26 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hi Joe, > I also really enjoyed the presentation. Thank you for sharing! Thank you very much! > I'd be interested in hearing more about the django vs picolisp development > experience. My experience is that Django requires more work to set up. There are more things to handle and you work more

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-26 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hello John, > Good presentation. Did you do a ground-up rewrite or did you move > functionality in stages somehow? Thank you very much! I did a rewrite from the ground up, then dumped the data from the old version and wrote a Picolisp program that converted the contents of the SQL database into

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread John Duncan
Good presentation. Did you do a ground-up rewrite or did you move functionality in stages somehow? I know it's a small system. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:46 PM wrote: > “Money” bullet: > > “Yes, computers can store and handle almost unlimited amounts of code > today. But what about you?” > > >

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread rick
“Money” bullet: “Yes, computers can store and handle almost unlimited amounts of code today. But what about you?”

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread Joe Bogner
I also really enjoyed the presentation. Thank you for sharing! I'd be interested in hearing more about the django vs picolisp development experience. I haven't used django but have spent time in other python frameworks (flask). I skimmed through https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/forms/m

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread Johan Persson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:57:00 +0200 Mattias Sundblad wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I recently held some presentations about Picolisp, minimalism and > software development. The slides and notes are available on the wiki > at > https://picolisp.com/wiki/?simplicityandminimalisminsoftwaredevelopment

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Thank you! I am happy you liked it! Using the production application as the basis for a tutorial could be a good idea, I will look into that. Thanks! Mattias Curtis skrev: (25 september 2018 14:46:45 CEST) >I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks. You should write a nice tutorial based on >the >app you men

Re: Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread Curtis
I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks. You should write a nice tutorial based on the app you mentioned in the talk. ;) On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 7:05 AM Mattias Sundblad wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I recently held some presentations about Picolisp, minimalism and > software development. The slides and notes a

Slides and notes from my Picolisp presentation

2018-09-25 Thread Mattias Sundblad
Hello everyone! I recently held some presentations about Picolisp, minimalism and software development. The slides and notes are available on the wiki at https://picolisp.com/wiki/?simplicityandminimalisminsoftwaredevelopment The presentation does not go into great technical depth about Picolisp,