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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.⬐ dangDiscussed at the time:Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270886 - Feb 2019 (22 comments)
⬐ ElHackerI really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing⬐ DonHopkinsBack in the day we had to cut O's in half to make our own parenthesis.
⬐ woobyIf you're interested, it's also possible to run the actual original Lisp 1.5 on emulated hardware via SIMH.See this page: http://web.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/
I got it running on my Mac a few months ago. SIMH is on Homebrew.
⬐ qnttyCode on github: https://github.com/krig/LISP⬐ akuji1993Let's LISP again, like we did last summer!⬐ tjr⬐ globolgloThe things we Lisped last summer, we'll remember AI winter long?⬐ DyslexicAtheisthe is making a Lisp, he is checking it twice ...this was an excellent history lesson on multiple levels. The final personal remarks about how the speaker connects the ethos of open source to his family history was an unexpected turn.⬐ leocIs Steve Russell still on hand to demonstrate the PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View from time to time?⬐ enf⬐ reikonomushaHe and Peter Samson gave the Spacewar demo last August 4th, on the Vintage Computer Festival day.If you’re interested in hacking on some modern Common Lisp code, Rigetti Computing (which sells access to quantum computers) open-sourced their SDK, which includes a high-performance quantum simulator called the QVM [1] and an optimizing compiler quilc [2] for their quantum programming language called Quil. All of it is written in CL.⬐ yvdriess⬐ Wyndtroy2012There seems to be some attraction to CL for QC researchers. I also used CL for my PhD's QC compiler and VM. Although my low-lv QVM was written in C, it takes s-expr input. I'm a bit sad it wasn't cited by the Quil guys :pAnyone that likes Lisp should take a look at Factor. Even simpler syntax (RPN instead of prefix, less parenthesis), Lispy generics, functional, procedural, scripting, arbitrary data literals, full of meta goodness, clean good small understandable library, batteries included, sub-languages, REPL + image + source files, low and high level. Inspired in Lisp, Joy, Smalltalk and Forth (and with some things in common with Rebol).⬐ hk-marsI am LISPing in this summer:)⬐ openloopLets.⬐ KineticLensmanI'm currently working through the implementation of my own personal Lisp, following the awesome MAL process [0]. It's instructive to compare the result with the language as defined in the early 60s and available to programmers then (e.g. as defined by the Lisp manual referenced in the video). One thing that immediately stood out was the use of GOTO ('GO' actually) in the early Lisp rather than some sort of loop or tail recursion.Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp. The obvious end-state mentioned in the MAL guide is to self-host a Lisp, but I'm thinking it would be more appropriate (and fun) to re-implement one of the early chatbots like ELIZA [1].
[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
⬐ abecedariusI had fun doing last year's https://adventofcode.com in my own Lisp dialect. It's a pretty big stress for a personal toy language, but not too out there.(Added: the code: https://github.com/darius/squeam/blob/master/eg/advent-of-co...)
⬐ gekkonierI would consider writing a small standardlib for your lisp. While writing it you will encounter things you can optimize perhaps.⬐ selimthegrim⬐ cjallen88I too might have a couple things in mind. How do I get in touch with you (gp, KineticLensman although happy to hear from immediate parent too)?⬐ KineticLensmanCool! That is a great offer. If you watch my progress SITREPs at [0] you'll get a feel for when it might ready. I'm behind on the SITREP updates but I'm in fact just debugging macro expansion (step 8) at the moment.[0] https://www.non-kinetic-effects.co.uk/blog/2019/01/21/MAL-2
⬐ nikofeyni read his comment as “[if i were you] i would consider...”.⬐ gekkonierYes, I'm sorry. It was meant as an answer to 'Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp.'⬐ KineticLensmanMy bad! And I can't even claim not to be a native-English speaker.It is a good idea and in fact I'm already sort of going down that route. I'm finding that using macros to define new functionality (rather than extend the core set of built-in functions) is a good way to tease out implementation issues as they somewhat stress the underlying mechanisms.
I think my first lib functions will be IO-related.
The book Paradigms of AI Programming is available for free on github, and implements something like ELIZA in Common Lisp.I really recommend it.
⬐ KineticLensmanGreat recommendation, thanks⬐ kwccoinWaiting for it and can it port to multiple platform like pi, iOS, Andorid, browser ... etc. Obviously can be a joint effort but once the basic is done, we can have a new and refreshing effort.I always think that why PAIP is great you always have this feeling like Star Trek NG. Suddenly you have a function that works. BTW, I think the other web sites http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ would be good.
Not one person but if there is a basis we can grow the community, especially if one can port to Pi and iOS.