asciilifeform: there's gotta be a catch though. do they died after 6 mo. ? or what.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell kakobrekla 'silent wings' fan are very very spiffy. and now the loudest thing in the room, giant doubleconverter ups, is deafening in comparison. gonna have to re-fan it now...
asciilifeform: but if you like structure editors, interlisp (destroyed by commonlisp, incidentally, and by symbolics, as described in the pitman link from mircea_popescu ) is your sunken atlantis !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i`d answer but my gas mask cartridge needs changing
asciilifeform: incidentally i cannot tell, from the screenshots, whether that thing has a structure editor, like interlisp, or merely clutters the display
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: no, because generated code is idiocy
asciilifeform: this is an entire business model, if one can call usgtronics 'business'
asciilifeform: but i will add that this thing is extremely appealing when seen in contrast with microshit, and thus survives
asciilifeform: wtf, why would ~generated~ ada seem like a good idea.
asciilifeform: i'll use a proprietary compiler shortly after my appointment as reichsminister, where i will commute to ft. meade on flying pig over a frozen hell.
asciilifeform: anyway this notion that plebes could steal serious money without official approval is lunacy. if $maxint grows legs, it is because lizards had a shadow payment to make, a la isis, and not because some uppity kid was rewarded for nietzschian 'will' or wtf else.
asciilifeform back from maths library, opens book, finds letter 'to reader' circa 2001, inviting to talk to some long-gone prof merely for being interested in the text
asciilifeform: as for the crackpottery, it pre-dates public obsession with nsa, and even the gsm and 'smart meter' psychosis, goes way back to 1970s (!) 'power lines will kill you with magnetics' thing
