I really like Terminus. I started using it last year and I'd be hard-pressed to switch to anything else.

Seconded. Terminus is really amazing. But I've been trying Hack for a change after many years of Terminus and I find it rather pleasing.

Yep. This "incredibly funny" implementation of netcat is... just like the original netcat.

Ah... but now the title has changed. It was along the lines of "Incredibly funny implementation of netcat in open source Apple code"

I posted it, but didn't edit the title. I'm assuming a moderator did that, but the reason for it escapes me.

In general (though not 100% of the time) titles should be the same on HN as they are on the page you're submitting. The goal is to reduce editorializing, and link baiting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>> It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet

> If you know Google you know this isn't the case. Google are ruthless with cutting ideas and products - just look at Reader.

Well, yes, it's obvious in hindsight... but Google started Code in 2005 and project hosting in 2006, while Reader was shut down in 2013.

Github wasn't even launched until 2008.

Google Answers 2002-2006 Google Wave 2009-2010 Google Reader 2005-2013 The list goes on

Google has been like this from very early on. I won't be surprised if I wake up to the news that gmail is getting the axe should google decide that the product is no longer commercially viable.

For what it's worth, Feynman was on Wolfram's dissertation committee

http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2597/

When I first saw it I thought "pico see".

The "peacock" interpretation is funny and went unnoticed by me. Cheers!

I taught myself C as a young teenager (some time ago), only to much later learn languages with REPLs like Ruby, Scheme and Common Lisp. Using gdb in this way would have been an interesting learning experience... because back then I didn't know there was a such thing as a REPL!

I'm happy to see The Variational Principles of Mechanics (by the great Lanczos) on that list. It really is deep, and I think it does a fantastic job of explaining classical mechanics. I've read the vast majority of the book multiple times.

Since we're on the topic of Sussman, has anyone here read through SICM? I've heard that the code is difficult to get to work, but does anyone have an opinion on the rest? I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Anyone read both Lanczos and SICM?

I referred to the Lanczos book quite often when I was working on my PhD. I've read the first part of SICM and skimmed the rest. Based on that, it looks like it does an excellent job in building up an understanding of how the math works. By the time I looked at SICM, I had implemented my own code to do something similar (coded in Maple). It looked like the progression of the code was well handled. On the whole, I think Lanczos is a better book, but SICM is fairly decent. I'm also partial to Meirovitch's Methods of Analytical Dynamics which I think does the best job of explaining the inclusion of non-conservative forces in the Principle of Least Action. This is needed for applied forces and torques like a motor. It also covers the inclusion of damping forces well. Like Lanczos, the Meirovitch book is available from Dover, so it's pretty inexpensive.

The SICM code really only works for a specific scheme interpreter, so if you have that it should be fine.

Clojure is underway: http://github.com/littlredcomputer/math

That's interesting, but I get a 404 for that link.

I bought Lanczos' book a month ago, I'm ~75 pages in (got other stuff to do). I will give SICM a try. I've just installed the 'ScmUtils Mechanics' package to accompany the book.

How can the code be difficult to get to work if he ships the required package with the book?

VPM is in my read queue. His "Linear Differential Operators" was the best math book I read in years so I'm looking forward to it.

"Acuman"

"I am ACUMAN, ACUMAN am I. ACUMAN knows all, ACUMAN is god. Therefore; I AM GOD!!! Just kidding, ACUMAN stands for Artificial Chatting Utility Matching Algorithmic Nodes."

Nice :)

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375643

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9367438

LoL's author has a collection of references at http://letoverlambda.com/references.lisp

Many of the references are not for learning CL, but are interesting reads (such as Henry Baker's papers).

Also there are references to particular pages of books (noting something important, interesting or funny):

   (cltl2 :a guy-steele :y 1990
     :n "Common Lisp the Language 2nd Ed.")
   (cltl2-p153 :i "Chevrolet!")
   (cltl2-p260
     :i "Can't define compiler macros over CL forms")

etc.