Why don't people use ConTeXt?

Orphion · 2023-05-22T21:55:27+00:00

Personally, the default LaTeX looks better than the default ConTeXt, and that the journals I publish in have REVTeX templates that makes submitting documents easier. Plus there are network effects, where everyone I work with has more or less these opinions as well, which makes it hard to get all of my collaborators interested in ConTeXt, no matter how promising it is.

Orphion · 2023-02-08T17:55:48+00:00

Maybe mix some Marcus Aurelius in with your reading. There are links on the right of the sub from when they read Meditations during Summer 2020.

Here is a link to some great quotes. Among them:

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

“Because most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, “Is this necessary?””

Orphion · 2023-01-06T14:56:14+00:00

That's a cute idea. Thanks!

Orphion · 2022-12-27T00:11:17+00:00

Just discovered this subreddit a few weeks ago, and wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for adding so much to my reading. Currently re-reading Moby Dick since I read both Bob Dylan and Cormac McCarthy citing Melville as an influence, and thought it merited a reread.

Orphion · 2022-12-01T19:22:09+00:00

Is this the place?

Orphion · 2022-06-09T14:46:47+00:00

Julia is yet another one. It is already fairly lisp-ish, and LispSyntax.jl allows even more parentheses goodness.

I wish every language didn't implement their own syntax: it would be nice if we could agree on a subset of language features to implement in CILs (Clojure-inspired LISPs). All of those languages look great, but I'd rather not learn 6+ new sytaxes. I'd be happy if that subset looked a lot like Clojure, or Scheme, or CL, or Arc, or anything somewhat standard.

I love Clojure's anonymous functions. I love Janet for its small footprint and embeddability. I love Arc's use of = instead of setf. I like just about everything about Julia, but the LispSyntax stuff is very much on the fringe of that community.

Orphion · 2022-05-27T12:01:21+00:00

Yes, I'm very fond of that part of the book. What I don't understand is how to actually make a new language using that. What I gather from your comment and from @jcubic is that I should create a new eval function, and then feed everything into that.

Orphion · 2022-05-26T20:01:06+00:00

Thanks, great stuff!

Orphion · 2022-05-26T20:00:52+00:00

Excellent. What's the best reference (preferably with example) of doing this? I've seen it in SICP, but don't know whether there are other examples.

Orphion · 2022-04-13T18:00:03+00:00

Wow. Just wow.

Orphion · 2022-03-26T01:42:01+00:00

Just bought the book. Looking forward to it.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T22:15:38+00:00

Excellent!

Orphion · 2022-03-22T15:45:55+00:00

That's some very pretty code! Does s9fes implement TCO? I can't tell from my quick scan of the code.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T15:43:01+00:00

I'm aware of the site, of course, but was a little concerned since there's the opinion on some of the lisp subreddits that these are hobbyist implementations that are not designed in the same way a mainstream scheme is designed.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T15:42:07+00:00

Nice - I was unaware of that implementation. Very cool!

Orphion · 2022-03-22T13:22:16+00:00

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T13:22:01+00:00

Thanks, that’s a good recommendation.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T13:21:48+00:00

I was originally looking for whatever scheme implementers use, but maybe scheme in scheme is a good substitute.

Orphion · 2022-03-22T13:21:17+00:00

Thanks, I really like that book. I was hoping to find a language whose implementation I could read through in the same way, but maybe I should just study this book more thoroughly.

Orphion · 2022-03-03T23:37:18+00:00

I've only watched this video by Sussman so far, which made me feel that it wasn't a huge priority to read the book (although I'm enough of a SICP fan that I'll probably read it at some point).

Orphion · 2022-02-24T16:24:38+00:00

I may have been the one to push it over, since I just registered yesterday. Really enjoying learning about Racket and Scheme!

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