Lisp, documenting my encounter with, step #2
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==Dear blog, yesterday seem to have disappeared in the fog of time without me writing to you, I'm so sorry1. I promised to write a bit about the Special Operator...
View ArticleLisp, Function NULL, Step 3.
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==I wanted to check for an empty string, and so came by the Function NULL. Finally, a well specified function. The description; Returns t if object is the empty list;...
View ArticleLisp, a question about concatenation, step #4
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==For some reason a simple thing turns out to be hard1. This is what I want to do; I want to concatenate a list of strings into a single string. I do not want this;...
View ArticleLisp, Why?, step #5
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==Why do you want strings ? What do you use them for ? Why are you using strings for that ? And so following. Mircea Popescu For years, I have wanted to break free of...
View ArticleLsip, Common Lisp The Language, Purpose, adnotated,
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw== Common Lisp is intended to meet these goals: Commonality Common Lisp originated in an attempt to focus the work of several implementation groups, each of which was...
View ArticleScraping btcbase.org
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==I wanted to add a comment to trilema, but apparently it looks like spam. So here the comment for http://trilema.com/2019/trilema-goes-dark. Currently I'm stuck on...
View ArticleOn the road
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==Saturday we flew to Ukraine. The flight wit LOT (Polish Airlines) was supposed to be at 7:00. At 22:00 on Friday I get an SMS to inform me that the flight is...
View ArticleOff the road again
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==Yes, we landed at Schiphol last Saturday. The whole week, the memories of the trip where slowly slipping out of my mind. Before the whole thing is gone, I'll try to...
View ArticleFailure Modes
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==To name some; going awol, going off on an inconsequential angle, moving in circles or in short "being an engineer", or "engineering". All failure modes1 that I have...
View ArticleLiving in the free world
MjkxODIwMDM3Mjl8MjA1LjEzNC4xNzIuMw==In the eighties we grew up knowing we we free. We knew this because the propaganda of that time told us so. As an easily impressed child I could only image how black...
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