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Friday Social: What is your favorite non-Lisp language?
Friday Social is back! So we know we are all Lisp programmers here and we love the language and use it....
An annotated Lisp bibliography (simondobson.org)
The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival (every.to)
How User Groups Made Software Reuse a Reality (ztoz.blog)
Why Chromebook keyboards have lowercase letters (blog.google)
I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me?
A lot of people answering this struggle to understand what highly-specific means. I’m looking to, for the sake of experiment, highly-specific advice that gives a reader clear understanding of what they should do. Unlike the vague advice, on the contrary, that may be too abstract to get implementing it right away....
Office workstations
Up to the 1990s there were workstations designed for software development (Lisp/Smalltalk Machines by various vendors), graphics and CAD (Apollo, SGI), and general purpose systems (Sun, HP)....
Why people gave up using linux?
The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?
The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld’s Origins, as Told by David Bunnell (technologizer.com)
Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc.
TL;DR It was an old Wang system, 286 processor(I think, anyway), with no hard drive, a 5.25" floppy drive, and a lovely green monochrome monitor. I didn’t have it long enough to reach the point where I could have identified the actual hardware/specs....
Common Lisp tips (github.com)
Why do you use the terminal?
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments...
2023 Medley Interlisp Annual Report (interlisp.org)
Disclosure: I’m a member of the Medley Interlisp Project.
Why don't telemarketers give up on unresponsive numbers?
When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don’t bait, and don’t interact. So why don’t telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don’t lead to any sales or other business benefits?...
Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum photos (photos.app.goo.gl)
My photos of a visit to the incredible Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy. Mind blowing.