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Paolo Amoroso @amoroso@oldbytes.space · 6d ago
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/117058797209764802 Interlisp-D running on Xerox workstations also had TeleRaid, a remote debugger that worked over an Ethernet PUP network connection. https://files.interlisp.org/medley/library/TELERAID.TEDIT.pdf #interlisp #lisp #debugger
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URAID is the low level debugger and diagnostic tool of Medley Interlisp. The name comes from "Unix RAID", the latter likely a pun on the insecticide of the same name. This 1991 manual of Medley for Sun describes the URAID commands. https://interlisp.org/documentation/SunUserGuide.pdf#page=61 #interlisp #debugger #retrocomputing
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simon_brooke
Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Aug 05, 2026
Replying to @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org "The great thing about #Lisp is that it has extremely simple syntax"

... except, of course, for #CommonLisp which is a complete baroque mess.

Of course, it's largely a complete baroque mess because reader macros, and reader macros are useful shorthand, but #$(words)? Really?

And noted also that #Clojure has its own baroquery hard-coded into its reader (#{:a :b [:c @D@mastodon.scot]}, anyone?), which is arguably worse, but...

This might as well be #Perl.

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farooqkz
Farooq [Master Patata] @farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 30, 2026
Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

I very much am interested in looking OS designs beyond #Unix.

For instance I felt a real need for a different programming interface, OS and filesystem while I was doing research. I thought I wanted a #Lisp Machine comeback(hence title of the blog post below). But after research, I found the precise term to be "residential style developement". Below is me blog post:

https://far.chickenkiller.com/computing/do-i-need-a-lisp-machine-comeback/

I have also seen other software developers complaining about storage interface in Operating Systems and programming languages. For instance, here's a quote from Viktor who develops #Marginalia search engine complaining about this:

This is mostly a post to complain about something > that chafes. I wish there was a programming language (ideally several) that acknowledged that computers have hard drives, not just a processor, RAM and other_devices[].

His blog post is here:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/53-better-hard-drive-metaphor/

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ramin_hal9001
Ramin Honary @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org · Jul 27, 2026
Apropos of nothing: Big thanks to Shiro Kawai for creating Gauche Scheme, which so far has been one of the best Scheme implementations I have used. It has worked well on every computer I have tried it on so far ({Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS} x {x86_64, i386, aarch64}). It is stable, very fast, and supports a large number of the more recent SRFIs (Scheme language extensions), it has very good compatibility with the R7RS language standard, and the Gauche REPL gosh is pretty easy to use as well. I always run the REPL in R7RS mode, so gosh -r7 -I. -i . Scheme people, give it a try sometime if you haven’t already! https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/ #tech #software #Scheme #R7RS #Lisp #SchemeLang #FunctionalProgramming #Gauche
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barubary
Oriel Jutty :hhHHHAAAH: @barubary@infosec.exchange · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mjd@mathstodon.xyz
@mjd@mathstodon.xyz Probably a member of the same cult that decided Lisp should have declare, declaim, and proclaim statements, all different. Or =, eq, eql, equal, and equalp. #lisp
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