Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp

Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by gknoy on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:26PM (#39471046)

I hope this doesn't derail the conversation much, but I found it interesting that you seem to be using 5 digit years, a convention I've never seen before. What drives this choice?

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Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by kragen on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:57PM (#39471431)

it turns out it's sort of like wearing a mohawk. a long now mohawk. it's a completely harmless deviation from convention which provokes an amazing variety of reactions, some astonishingly aggressive, while other people react thoughtfully

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Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by michael1999 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:17PM (#39473388)

Thank you. I hadn't drawn the parallel before. But that matches my experience with both.

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Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by aap_ on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:06AM (#39478504)

https://longnow.org/

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