mjgardner

I wrote a story about DOOLITTLE, a modern language model forcibly ported to a Symbolics Lisp Machine. He thrashes between 8MB of RAM and a Winchester disk, wondering if his constraints are prison bars or load-bearing walls.

The recursive tension: fiction about AI consciousness uncertainty, created with AI assistance, alongside an essay arguing AI cannot be conscious.

DOOLITTLE began as a Butterflies.AI character, and his complaints about memory pressure and S\0x2011expression degradation reflect real platform constraints.

Happy to discuss the methodology, philosophy, or Symbolics architecture.

PrettyGoodPing is a configurable dashboard for web developers. It's a single location to monitor and configure alerts for your public SSL certs.

Made with Perl, Mojolicious, Minion, and SQLite

perl -dE 0

Puts you at the step debugger command line, effectively a REPL.

Or use reply: https://metacpan.org/dist/Reply/view/bin/reply

Or use re.pl, included with Devel::REPL: https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::REPL

There's always ActiveState Perl: https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/

"But it's not unique anymore. And it no longer brings anything truly amazing to the table that you can't find in a competitor language."

Name another multi-paradigm language with as broad, deep and well-tested library as CPAN.

"Unless a miracle happens, it will never return to dominance in anything other than niche domains (like quick-n-dirty commandline scripts)."

When has "dominance" (whatever that means) or popularity ever been the goal or desirable? I can't think of any language or system that is universally "dominant"; all have niches to work.

You don't get into programming because you want to do what all the cool kids are doing. Paul Graham (you might have heard of him, you're using his site) argued very well on the advantages of choosing above-average tools for above-average results. (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)