Hi Conal, Yes, I'd agree that "avoiding state" is at best a mediocre description. To echo with what Brandon said, the statement is very much based in brevity...
... The dirty little secret of Open Source is that it's not about the code, it's about the people who keep things running. Most projects, if you take away the...
http://www.lisperati.com/fringedc.html FringeDC is doing pretty much a SeaFunc sort of thing. I call attention to its very nice homepage, and also its idea of...
I'll be missing this one unfortunately. I just returned from Burning Man after ditching my job, and still missing a good deal of clothes and so forth for...
Wow... Ditched the job _and_ Burning Man? Sounds like life has been interesting. I'm jealous about Burning Man at least. This is the first year away after 2...
... That's pretty awesome, Brian. Burning Man didn't disappoint, I imagine. I too will be missing tonight's meeting, but only because I'm an idiot. I got...
... Gregory> I definitely need to be better at keeping my calendar in Gregory> my face when planning things. I don't know why I'm suddenly shilling for the...
Hi all, My ICFP plan: I will only attend CUFP. I have a room at University Place for wed night, $99. I will be driving down on Wed evening, and back on...
Okay, after listening to people at the last meeting, some reading, and reflection, here's my stab at selling functional programming. I divide into two parts,...
Not trying to define anything. Trying to design material to be sent out with the monthly announcements which gets people to come to meetings. The list has an...
... I will think about it. Especially in light of the $10/hr game testing I'm doing right now. It is rather labor intensive, largely because every project...
... I'm not averse to reaching out to "Suits," if a benefit / cost analysis can be demonstrated. Unfortunately I consider that analysis to be very much in the...
... I'm going to differ here as well. The goal of SeaFunc is to plant FP seeds in the minds of *all* programmers. Programmers who are sufficiently satisfied...
... Viaweb sold for $49 million (http://www.wired.com/news/business/1,12828-0.html). If that's failure, what do you call success? Many companies have rewritten...
... It is a failure to convince the majority of the business world that Lisp is important. ... The habit of ditching the Lisp seems clear enough. They didn't...
... Theories of necessity, social or otherwise, are inadequate for describing economic ebb and flow. This kind of analysis would, for instance, define the...
... I'm going to agree with Jeff. Big companies like safe bets and dislike diversification. Big companies also tend to be where you find developers who have...
... Google and Amazon are both big companies, and I don't think your generalization applies to them. ... I don't agree with your characterization of Microsoft....
... Brandon> I am mired in a problem every bit as bad as manual memory Brandon> management. Shell quoting! All I can say is: I sympathize. I've done a couple...
I feel your pain. It's not just shell quoting. It's the C runtime. Windows not only forms paths with backslash, it allows quoting of spaced filenames with...
... Because the OpenGL egg is already written, and if that works, it is proof of concept that OpenGL is working under Chicken + MinGW. I don't need CMake or...
... One way to avoid this twisty maze of shells is to pick one and support only it. GHC supports Cygwin and MSYS builds, presumably cmd.exe isn't worth the...
Hi all, No meeting for tonight. I was going to announce a fourth week meeting this time remembering that several of us were at some subset of ICFP. People I...
Thanks for the update. Do you mind if I put it up on the calendar (from the look of it, it looks like no one uses it, but I figure it can't really hurt...) ...
Here's a crazy thought -- can SeaFunc get its own Google Calendar? Then those of us who already use it (probably just me, but oh well) can always have current...
I just had the same thought. Anyone can set up a google calendar account and create a SeaFunc calendar, which the rest of us can view, integrated with any...
Done. Not a calendar user myself, so this gave me a chance to check it out. Seems pretty cool. I wouldn't mind using it in addition to the announcements. ...
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