mandus

One of the things I do with : is infinite while-loops, like:

    while :; do
        <do stuff>
        sleep n
    done

Maybe to mainstream to make the cut!?

Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience

There is also Pdm now I recently learned, which is supposed to be a more modern alternative. As an alternative to poetry that is; pipenv is yesterday’s solution.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

That is actually a nice analogy! No one, not even the pro formula-1 drivers will want to drive a f1 car in regular traffic. Much the same with these languages (apls, lisps, forth, etc); they have their place and role, but is better not used in regular open source or commercial codes.

I was holding my old iPhone3 in my hands a few days ago (one of my kids have collected a few phones in the house over the years). It felt so good, light and small. I really long for a phone in that form-factor again, the big phones of today is just silly.

My guess it's a proportionally low number. I looked into matlisp when I did my PhD in scientific computing - none of the other people I worked with had any interest in it. I couldn't pursue it since I would have to reimplement or interface each and every library myself, a workload I couldn't justify at the time.

So, although lisp might have been great, in the end I stayed with Python/C++. Guess I'm not the only one with similar experiences.

There are still days when I miss fvwm. Not because it was that great, but because I used it for so long that my fingers still remember the keyboard shortcuts I configured. But I moved to OSX and just had to adapt. I guess moving on isn't always the most important thing, but stay productive. If that mean staying with some old software I'm all for it.