Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:17:59PM +0100, bied...@gmail.com wrote: > It's 2021, Software is eating the world, people are flocking to Python and > Javascript mainly, we're swimming in machine learning and AI and serverless > and what not. In the current times, where do you see the future of Picolisp

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Danilo Kordic wrote: > LispM ( http://metamodular.com/closos.pdf ). Nice article! Looks a lot like PilOS, no? ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread pd
El lun., 22 feb. 2021 9:31, Alexander Burger escribió: > ... and immune to temporary hypes. > What a nice desire being rejected by history of humankind again and again ;) Specially in computer science >

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread andreas
What are you talking about? Troll bait much. Majority of IT practitioners have really bad knowledge about history of IT & computer science. Most things are in popular use solely because they are popular (which may give legitimate non-technical benefits). Especially in software long-solved mistake

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
hallo list, I always thought a "killer app" would be nice, to make those "killer features" popular, and I always thought that could be a "data science application builder" with 3 features: - easy data import into a Picolisp DB - ffi/java wrappers for many data science libs (Rmath, Weka, ...) - ea

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread andreas
Yeah I had kinda similiar ideas, Thorsten. PicolispDB is certainly a killer feature - multi-paradigm database (Key-Value, Object, Document, Graph, Relational.. really everything covered), ACID (transactions), many indexing capabilities (including text and spatial indexing), performant, extremely f

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread Danilo Kordic
Yes. CLOSOS assumes Common Lisp. ATM I am studying Intel N4100 on which to experiment with them. On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 09:32 Alexander Burger wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Danilo Kordic wrote: > > LispM ( http://metamodular.com/closos.pdf ). > > Nice article! Looks a

Re: Picolisp Outlook

2021-02-22 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Maybe we should sponsor Alex (3 month work?) to build that "killer app" with the clear goals - for all those millions of (data) scientists that work with R etc, it should be the easiest (because fully integrated) way to build applications on top of their data - for those who like Picolisp it shoul