Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited
by ravi-delia on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:15AM
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I mean, that specific library isn't really all that hard to work with. It's not doing anything completely crazy, just somewhat unusual. But in general I think it's probably better to keep the crazy custom environment to personal projects- at least for awful utility macro libraries like mine.
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Re:Lisping at JPL Revisited
by jvanderbot on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:19AM
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Narrowing down on a single library is one thing. Maybe case by case it's ok. In general if someone showed up and said "I will prototype everything in lisp and you can take it from there" I'd say they are a bit egotistical and not being much of a help to the org. Prototypes are 1% of the work.
And I say this as someone whose full time job was to do research prototypes of robotics libraries for a while.