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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by momentoftop on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:58AM (#36890801)
When I started using CL 20 years ago, libraries were stored on cliki and any malicious user could put malware there. Any source you asdf-installed was generally GPG signed and the installer automatically checked signatures against your personal trust-chain.

Learning CL back then was my first introduction to GPG (and Emacs, and Linux)

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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by aidenn0 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:56AM (#36892710)
> When I started using CL 20 years ago, libraries were stored on cliki and any malicious user could put malware there. Any source you asdf-installed was generally GPG signed and the installer automatically checked signatures against your personal trust-chain.

Which, in practice, involved downloading GPG public keys from cliki because I didn't know every single CL developer.

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