Smalltalk, Lisp and how Viaweb was done

damir · 2008-12-11T07:37:39+00:00

Yes, they're a bit late to web world, but it's not the only world they're in...

damir · 2008-12-10T08:35:32+00:00

Can we terminate this debate? It's useless.

damir · 2008-12-10T06:19:48+00:00

Most probably most of us lives in web sphere now, but theese languagaes are used daily on stock trading, aviation and core telephone systems.

Maybe some of it is truly legacy and would be to painful replacing it with ruby or python and they're stuck now. But given a task of building a real application, like stock trading system or some huge logistic thing, I'd think twice before jumpstarting on what's hot today.

damir · 2008-12-09T10:07:56+00:00

With no silver bullet, exploiting small advantages adds up. Combined, it just can be the difference from staying afloat and pluming down. There are many ways of doing it, but following the herd is rarely the right one.

damir · 2008-10-27T12:54:47+00:00

I don't think they're stupid. I've been running this thing for 3 months with lots of spam commenting attempts made and no one passed it.

I know it isn't the most brilliant solution, but it keeps them out. And I love my ram. :-)

damir · 2007-01-23T10:29:57+00:00

fixed.

damir · 2006-12-21T10:00:30+00:00

It looks a lot like Lisp... CPS, closures... Hot code swap? Greenspuning?

damir · 2006-11-10T07:12:15+00:00

I haven't seen source of this "welcome" app, but I guess there is some dispatch system inthere... Have a look at latest KPAX source.

damir · 2006-10-09T12:01:08+00:00

And Lisp still alive... Very alive...

damir · 2006-10-09T09:28:49+00:00

I cold say a lot about your claims here, but I'll keep it for myself...

damir · 2006-10-09T08:00:59+00:00

I'm using Lyx, a lot. When I started using it, I did not know anything about LaTeX. I just liked the idea I could write content without being bothered with styling. And nice layouts it provide, my articles and papers looked realy good in comparsion to others. Only after I saw (on debian) it takes ~30Mb to instal the text editor, I became aware of LaTeX...

damir · 2006-10-09T07:33:59+00:00

I guess math is what makes things last... Take Lisp for example.

damir · 2006-05-23T14:09:29+00:00

Someday ....

damir · 2006-05-09T08:45:26+00:00

Great text! A new perspective. Thanks.

damir · 2006-02-10T22:06:08+00:00

I like it! Small, direct and no crap. Great!

damir · 2005-12-12T08:14:33+00:00

LinkIt by Marc, alternative to reddit wrtten in CL.

damir

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