The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of lang struggle.
Compiled and interpreted, AOT and JIT, static and dynamic, IDE and REPL; in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary construction of a metacircular evaluator, or in the common ruin of the contending compilers.
@KatS I've never really learned it but its pretty easy to find what you're looking for. Elisp is just fun because its so interactive and immediately useful.
@rml ah, the compiler that single-handedly defeated the Nazis during the second world war. I get the sense that we again have a need nowadays for some good Nazi-smashing technology.
I have never tried Stalin, but I think it is R5RS only, and that would make it a bit difficult to run on the majority of my code which is R7RS.
> "Legend has it that #emacs intermittently flashes the word #COMMUNISM across the screen as a subliminal "fuck you" to the man. I think its working."
@rml "git grep" wont work as-is because it is encoded in the source code with ROT-13, so you would have to grep for the ROT-13 encoded string for "COMMUNISM" in order to find it. They aren't stupid enough to leave a subliminal clue like that as plain text right there in the source code.
@rml i use emacs, develop mastodon.el, and follow the emacs hashtag on the fedi in emacs, for the sole purpose of coming upon toots such as these!
i especially like your curve ball of elisp and not scheme being the mandatory 1st prog lang. you gotta start with something maximally janky and minimally cool, otherwise you're not really a commie but some fake hipster knock off, an enemy of the people.
was it a ruse of history that the emacs devs made commie tech without knowing what they were doing? they were surely no reds.
@mousebot
It will all become increasingly more interesting if there is a great leap forward where we must smash the four olds: The Teletype, The File, The OS Kernel and Broken Builds
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