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Lisp is too powerful (wiki.c2.com)
4 points by MichalSternik 3337 days ago
2 comments
Safety1stClyde 3337 days ago
http://wiki.c2.com/spin.gif

is all I see.

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db48x 3337 days ago
Same here. You have to work pretty hard fail that badly.
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kazinator 3337 days ago
c2.com ("Pattern Portland Repository's Wiki" or "WikiWikiWeb") is the original Wiki and where the term "Wiki" originates. It's been running since 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

Have some respect!

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db48x 3336 days ago
Anything can be broken by a rewrite.
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kazinator 3336 days ago
It's working today; what makes you so sure it was code?

Nothing new was pushed to the public github repo yet. Last commit was a fix of misspelled "remodeling" in index.html, on Feb 20.

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db48x 3334 days ago
I merely mean that at some point in the last 20 years it went from being a simple site that displayed text, to a complex site that has to run javascript of some kind before it can display that same text.
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kazinator 3337 days ago
Without three actual real-world examples to point to (not even one is given) it's just an empty rant about an imaginary problem.

Computers are too powerful and general; look, one person is writing a novel, another one designing a bridge.

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