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Mostly OT :mrgreen: I also have daydreams of designing my own operating system to get lisp closer to the metal and UI, in the spirit of Genera or Squeak, but if I tried to do that on my own I'd probably officially be classed as insane. Well, a friend and I are in the planning stages of writing a sy...

Hey, look. The assembly language for a theoretical lisp machine that needs no GC.
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html

Stack-based, it looks like, making it probably easiest to implement in Forth or (though the implementations are rather graphics-oriented) PostScript.

As with the first Lisp example, I cannot fully translate the way to intermix code and data, but it seems I can write a program just as short and clear which has the same functionality. That's true when comparing any reasonably high-level turing- complete language with another thus classifiable lang...

Oh, and I'm 28. Glad to see other (and even younger) lispers out there.
I'm not much of a programmer, but I gravitate towards programmable programs (emacs, stumpwm, conkeror(soon minno)) and I do use that facility.

I turned 22 a few days ago :D I started learning Lisp because some quotes or another said I'd have a near godly revelation in time and would end up a better programmer for it :lol: I had a few interesting sparks where I saw you didn't "need" to do things that have to be done so much they'...

Paul wrote:

Kohath wrote:Hey. I use Windows almost all of the time, and I was being driven mad too.

Driven mad? If you're using Windows, you must already be mad, no?

Oh, snap!

See also: Lisp Machines

You could FPGA a chip meant to do something similar.

SBCL-windows isn't that well-supported, as I recall.

Kinda what comes with a legacy OS.

IMO, any games that will have problems over X would have problems under the VM anyway. I still don't understand why you would prefer running xming under mswin rather than straight-up X under the VM. The former requires more software than the latter. Actually, it requires much less. Why run an entir...

To be honest, I think installing a base Debian install in the VM, and using PuTTY and an X Server for Windows(not sure which would be best, there's some weird shit going down, and I've been off windows for a while) would be better. Less memory usage, no need to run the stuff in a separate root windo...