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Re:Why S7 Scheme? on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:23AM (#46901337)
it's trivial to implement a REPL yourself, you "just" need to poll for stdin in your main loop and pass this to S7 for evaluation. I made a demo once upon a time live coding with DearImGui: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHsl0u26MY

For the emacs side I used cmuscheme which is basically comint. Of course you don't get the same experience as in common lisp, but I found S7 to be pleasant to work with also in regards to reporting errors etc

Re:Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:41AM (#38291765)
And this is why we can't have nice things. Now that we will/are starting to have AI-created content, and visits from bots, comments from AI bots.. we need some new metric I reckon
What was the motivation and how was the process of the rewrite?
Re:A History of Lua (2001) on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:27AM (#32484078)
nil is not fasley in Scheme. There is no falsey is sense that only #f is false :)
Re:Zoomquilt (2004) on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:04AM (#25197026)
Escher love! amazing work
Re:Ask HN: Will long hair come back after COVID? on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:19AM (#23376993)
I've been always cutting my own hair (counting maybe 10 years). But indeed given the quarantine situation & not worrying at all about my looks, I thought I'd give a long(er) hair look a try. I was always sporting short hair so it's quite a change heh.
are you sure about the practical implications? Quoting the abstract: "At the moment, Lisp programs running on CPUs outperform Lisp programs on GPUs"
Re:Lsd: The next gen ls command on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:46AM (#19968510)
you have it already: https://hyper.is/