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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by some-mthfka on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:33AM (#34409463)
Absolutely, it's image-based. I have considered Smalltalk, but I like macros a bit too much. I am pretty sure CL code will have better performance too, but don't quote me on this. A point worth making: if I were to do it in Smalltalk, I would choose the standardized one, as the most stable one. Stability is pretty important for a project like this, as you would imagine.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by guestbest on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:03AM (#34409593)
I think you mean you like emacs but got hit by autocorrect. I think the key is to duplicate a mid nineties office suit that is hackable with a programmers IDE thrown in. Something like AppleWorks or MS Works with a database that is universal across all the documents in the suite with structures that allow reuse
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by MonkeyClub on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:34AM (#34410993)
I think he meant Common Lisp macros, a powerful feature of the language (and missing from Smalltalk) that allows one to easily write code that writes code.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by guestbest on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:08AM (#34412507)
Are macros performant enough to allow a power user to replace a scripting language like elisp for a long file of strings, which if I remember correctly was the main issue with using emacs over clisp, unstructured strings.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by kagevf on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @09:41AM (#34412875)
Common Lisp macro expansion happens at compile time, so they wouldn't affect runtime performance.
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Re:Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environme... by ElevenLathe on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:50AM (#34414865)
...but it's a fair thing to think about if the "poweruser" interface encourages creating new macros on the fly. Common Lisp can "compile" at the REPL or otherwise in the live environment.
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