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Pascal Bourguignon
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Pascal Bourguignon's personal blog at informatimago.com covers programming and history. Since 2009, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)17 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2009-11-30
- /linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-07-22
- /develop/lisp/com/informatimago/small-cl-pgms/wang.html3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-07-20
- Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-16
What Hacker News says?
Are you looking for this: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... ? Not exactly what you are looking for, but a starting point, maybe.
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on “PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor by Dasung Tech”Submitted Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel as a story · 198 points
HN discussionIn this genre, I like: Emacs as PID 1 http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64”Submitted Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004) as a story · 178 points
HN discussionThis is probably the closest someone has come: https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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on “Where Vim Came From”Submitted Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSomeone's already tried this. http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “Emacs 24.4 released”Submitted Life Saver – Help to the Lisp programmer having to write C++ code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt has already been done, see http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... .
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on “Emacs Is My New Window Manager”Submitted Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI totally forgot that Lisp's List processing came from Fortran: a system called FLPL. This had the CAR and CDR naming (in an ugly form, with additional prefix and suffix characters: XCARF and XCDRF). https://www.informatimago.com/articles/flpl/flpl.html
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on “Implementation plan for speeding up CPython”Submitted Run a Lisp program written in 1960 in Common Lisp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's kind of a boring and tired point, but for another perspective on "is X a Lisp?" it's worth reviewing the Lisp 1.5 manual from 1962: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%... Consider the program at the bottom of page 29 that calculates the length of a list. What's the delta to get it to run in X? In Clojure, quite a lot of modification is needed. Scheme, slightly less. Common Lisp though,…
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on “Companies that use Lisp extensively”Submitted Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionClojure does not implement Lisp lists. Just plain and simple. It may partly look like Lisp lists. But they aren't. Functions are randomly either looking compatible or not at all. ATOM does something completely different. CAR does not exist. FIRST exists, but works on persistent lazy sequences (wonderful, but it is not using Lisp-style chained cons cells). Btw., LispWorks, plain: CL-USER 23 > CAR (QUOTE (1 2)) 1 A mo…
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on “JavaScript Isn't Scheme”Hasn't the goal of emacs always been to be everything? It can be init (1), a web browser (2), and already a X11 WM (3). (1) http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... (2) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWebBrowser (3) https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XWindowEmacsManager
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on “Writing a Wayland Compositor, Part 1: Hello Wlroots”PJB has become a bit (too little for my taste) of a persona non grata in the common lisp world (which has a large overlap with the emacs world) ever since it was suggested and so far not disproved (names match, nicknames match) that he's the person behind https://twitter.com/ogamita edit: To make it more precise, full names are identical and http://www.informatimago.com/index.html links to http://pjb.ogamita.org whi…
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on “Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)”Indeed: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy”Well, it's not exactly a great idea but you can replace init with Emacs and it will boot [1]. You have basic utilities like a shell, file manager and with plugins you can run a music player... [1] http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “GNU Emacs Telegram Client”> This article fails to explain -why- one would want to switch to emacs from vim. In other words it does one thing, hopefully well. The philosophy behind the original vi, and IIRC originally vim too — didn’t it previously have an explicit non-goal of adding an embedded terminal emulator? If it did, those days seem over, so you IMO you might as well use an editor that does many things well (eg. having a proper design…
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on “From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)”Jokingly, why not just boot into Emacs? https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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on “Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell”To be fair, despite what the name “Windows” would have you believe, there is much more to an OS than a WM. Emacs can indeed serve as a perfectly good shell for a kernel - see, e.g., http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “SystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp”So here's this new kid, systemd, mindlessly gobbling os functionality and annoying the elders with binary log files. And then the sleeping giants wake, Lisp and Emacs. 62-year old Lisp, based on Lambda calculus from 80-90 years ago, pretty much pioneered much of computer science. And 44-year old emacs and 35-year old elisp, they pioneered subsuming. I mean, there's a church of emacs. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wik…
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on “SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp”See also http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp”How about booting straight into emacs? https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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on “Emacs and TLS”> However, it keeps a lot of ideas from 1.5 that were later dropped by CL and others. Names don't matter: ideas do. That's what I say: vague ideas don't matter much when forming language families. Code does. Books. Libraries. Communities. What were those ideas that were dropped? Fexprs would be one. That was dropped when compilers were used and Fexprs were found not to be compilable. That happened in the 70s before…
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on “Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released”Sure, emacs is an OS [1], you can write any kind of programs for it. On the other hand, you can do symbolic calculus in Scheme - see, for example, MIT Scheme-based Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (which, incidentally, is perfectly usable from inside emacs). [1] http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “Emacs Symbolic Integration”Unsurprisingly, this has been tried: https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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on “Systemd Home Directories”Here is boot into emacs implemented by making emacs the Linux init program, "Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel" https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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on “Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (2001)”Emacs is the Emacs of init systems http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
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on “Systemd-resolved DNS cache poisoning”
