Hexstream

No, my bubble just needs a bit of funding so I can be even more effective at contributing to Common Lisp Open Source.

I am assuming he would not say that if he deeply hated college dropouts and did not want to acknowledge their success.

Thank you.

I am aiming to help make Common Lisp (or a close descendant) a top 5 programming language by 2040.

I believe this is eminently achievable given proper approaches, and funding me would certainly help towards that goal.

https://twitter.com/HexstreamSoft/status/1213964177657794577

The point of the fundraiser is to enable me to concentrate almost all my energy on Common Lisp Open Source instead of having to divert energy elsewhere due to financial concerns.

Given the overall context, the direct and substantial benefit to the Common Lisp community of me getting at least minimal funding ought to be obvious.

The most immediate effect of me starting to look for a job would be to significantly reduce the energy I can spend towards Common Lisp Open Source.

Basically, I already have the dream job, but now I just need to get paid at least a bit. Even a small fraction of a "real" salary would be truly life-changing!

I can't immediately find where in his essays he talked favorably about college dropouts, but there is this: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1110248609545703425

It is chaotic, I'll give you that. This is a direct reflection of the chaotic state of the Common Lisp community and of all the hard work that is going to be required to bring it to a state of dignity.

I am actively working on bringing about this change, and although I am already fairly effective despite the constant and increasingly blatant sabotage and almost total lack of funding, I would be quite a bit more effective with at least some minimal funding.

For instance, 1000$/month would be effectively infinite money for me at this time. I'm not exactly asking for the moon here...

My CV and other writings and most especially my work itself pretty extensively justify that I'm the right person for the job. Of course, it's probably pretty hard to tell without significant Common Lisp expertise...

My CV: https://cv.hexstream.expert/

My work: https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/

Also, you should probably ask Paul Graham what he thinks of college dropouts...

It does not help to "prove" an assertion by making further unsubstantiated assertions.

Exactly, so stop doing that, then. Including sealioning.

Why is Lisp the "best programming language"?

First, the best programming language is Common Lisp, not just any Lisp. Second, I already gave hints towards answering your question above, but you do have to do your homework if you want to even have a chance at understanding.

How can we recognize a programming language as the "best" one at all?

Easily, if you understand the best programming language and see that all others are blub.

Why do "we need even more sophisticated" extensive advocacy pieces?

Because then we can just point non-believers like you at it to automatically win all arguments.

What "better infrastructure" is required for what purpose?

Have you even read the Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser pitch? I encourage everyone to do so, and urgently.

https://github.com/sponsors/Hexstream

Did you mean to present an argument of some sort?

Simple syntax is just one of countless crucial features.

Here is just a trivial sample: https://twitter.com/HexstreamSoft/status/1334220825281654785

Fairly extensive advocacy pieces already exist, and we need even more sophisticated ones, and better infrastructure overall, and it would be much easier to do that with proper funding.

This is dead serious.

Do you find the idea of funding Common Lisp Open Source abhorrent? Because that is the primary focus of my work and my life.

Do you think this would have more intrinsic value if someone else promoted it for me? And I have never understood the hate against relevant self-promotion. Why don't you want value creators to promote their work themselves?

I am creating tons of Common Lisp community resources that definitely help attract a more diverse audience to Common Lisp, incidentally. (Not everyone is comfortable with the "pop up in chat and ask experts" model.)

My CV offers a lot of pertinent details about my work: https://cv.hexstream.expert/

Common Lisp really IS the best programming language in the world, though. This is a statement of fact.

We could do a better job of proving it and demonstrating it to the world, and it would be easier to do it faster with funding.

I would like to review your Common Lisp credentials.

The Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser is mostly oriented towards people who understand the value of Common Lisp. Thank you.

Thank you for your interest.

I believe you are looking for the Common Lisp Revival 2020 Fundraiser pitch:

https://github.com/sponsors/Hexstream

tl;dr: I'd very much like a "noprocrast front-page only" or "comment threads ignore noprocrast" checkbox.

I have a huge noprocrast.

Having to /logout just to check out a story or its comments that I got linked from somewhere else (and that I know I really want to check, specifically) is really annoying.

To me, this is a completely different use-case than browsing stories on the front-page. Browsing of the front-page is a significant threat to my productivity, hence the huge noprocrast. Browsing of stories I have a direct link to is not a significant threat to my productivity.

Hence, the suggestion above.

Nothing for Rete? Come on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

It's a gender-neutral pronoun. (Great concept in theory but looks stupid and won't catch on, IMHO.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronouns

In Common Lisp we have optional type declarations, and a common strategy for implementations (for SBCL, say) is to treat such declarations as assertions by default, leading to more safety, and for performance-sensitive parts of the code you can "(locally (declare (optimize speed (safety 0))))", which makes the type declarations act as performance optimizations for that part of the code.

I find your lack of parentheses disturbing. I'd personally prefer:

  (b-when foo (plusp 1)
    (frob foo))

At the cost (among other things) of not being able to pass functions as arguments, though that could be worked around.

"Once thats iterated over, and an acceptable base created, it begins to populate the world with starting civilizations of elves, humans, goblins and megabeasts. After that, it runs a history and civilization simulator for about a 1050 years. Entire civilizations will rise and fall, cities will be destroyed, legends created, monsters raised into god hood in that time. One of the most famous stories has been of an elf child being kidnapped by the dwarves, being accepted into its society to finally become one of the most famous Kings ever known. You can read the legends of your make believe world, to find out who rose, who fell and what really happened. At this point you have about as much back story as a Tolkien-esque world."

O_O

Nevermind that, at least one study showed that if someone with view X is presented with "evidence" that it's indeed true, and then later presented with a full debunking of it, view X will be reinforced.

Failing that, Forth or J ;P

Yes, and this is a great force in my betterment. I'll see 4 different people talk about 4 completely different advanced techniques they use, and each of them master them so much that they talk about their feats like it's not really hard at all.

So eventually I tend to forget the context of the whole thing and come to think: "Hey, I can master these 4 advanced techniques myself, after all they're not really hard at all". And I eventually succeed ;P

anglais. (What's the point of using "classy" French if you mess up the orthograph? Maybe better to abstain.)

Haha! I'm on Dvorak too and didn't understand at all why JohnnyCache thought hitting "-" was so much harder than Space! I guess I've been completely converted for too long.

From the article:

"I did this because I hate uppercase characters in the middle of identifiers and I'm too lazy to type shift to get the '_'. In addition, I find it more readable."

just-use-lisp-style-identifiers-then

"But don't forget that *.0s have a clear marketing value."

If everyone starts doing "version marketing", this marketing value will likely eventually erode.