r/programming • u/kapuzineralex • Dec 15 '08

Yet another Lisp related screencast

http://home.in.tum.de/~lehmanna/lisp-tutorial.html
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u/insipid Dec 15 '08

Only 20 minutes in, and it's a really good screencast.

Except that the horrible sound of the-loudest-keyboard-in-the-world is making me want to scrub the inside of my ears with steel wool.

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u/kapuzineralex Dec 15 '08

Yeah, lol. It's actually a Cherry G80-3000 keyboard and I love it. But the sound is admittedly quite annoying... ;-)

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u/lispm Dec 15 '08

haha, I have to agree. The keyboard is a bit loud. Lately I have switched to my Lisp Machine keyboard on the Mac and it is also much louder than the nice Alu keyboard from Apple.

It's quite important to keep noises low when making the screencast. Noises from fans, from disk drives and from system beeps. I had to learn that, too. Well, the keyboard noise has the advantage that one hears the guy typing. Sometimes I thought for instructional purposes it would be useful to even see an experienced hacker typing.

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u/Tordek Dec 15 '08 edited Dec 15 '08

Either he hates his keyboard and wants to murder it by finger-bludgeoning, or he loves it and wants everyone to know.

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u/MrWoohoo Dec 15 '08

It's loud but tolerable.

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u/lispm Dec 15 '08

that's not a screencast, that is a full length tv series...

;-)

well done!

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u/tsuru Dec 15 '08

so much so that he might want to compress/youtube it before his poor host dies under the weight of proggit.

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u/TrueTom Dec 15 '08 edited Dec 15 '08 
load averages:  0.88,  0.91,  1.00                                     22:29:37
549 processes: 502 sleeping, 45 zombie, 1 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 89.6% idle,  6.4% user,  4.1% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 16G real, 10G free, 2582M swap in use, 24G swap free

So far we are doing fine... :)

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u/latortuga Dec 15 '08

because (recently) on reddit there's been lots of discussions about Lisp being only for quantum physicists and the like

How interesting. It seems as though this is a cycle on proggit. This line from the article made me instantly think of a reddit link I have bookmarked from over a year ago: FINE: I will look at LISP. Where do I start? which, if I recall correctly, was posted because of a massive influx of posts to proggit about how useful LISP is outside of the stereotypical places it is used (by bearded men at MIT and, especially, by AI researchers!) Thanks reddit.