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Re:Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014) on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:14AM (#32848217)
This might help https://malisper.me/category/debugging-common-lisp/

I am not aware of another lang/platform that can offer this kind of flexibility except may be Smalltalk or Erlang, but then they don't have the homoiconicity.

Re:Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (2012) on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:07PM (#32583406)
This is great, thanks for the link.
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes.
I wonder why not much is done to bring high performance scientific computing to common lisp. There are some interesting projects I was able to find like https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp and https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp and https://github.com/takagi/avm. But I guess it would be good to have a coordinated effort in this area.
Re:Triangle frenzy on Sunday May 08, 2022 @04:33AM (#31302285)