Francesco Frigo

Software Engineer and Archangel… Common Lisp hacker. I *heart* FreeBSD

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

Opinionated frameworks think they're smarter than you.
They get in the way when you outsmart 'em.
They foster a dangerous hush-hush philosophy in which you aren't supposed to get how things work.
Users get things done w/o knowing better!
It isn't a software eng. practice I favor.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@marciocapatonda con lo stesso spirito dell'uomo che non reggeva l'alcol, si potrebbe fare qualcosa con "una birra da mezzo"? (mezzo come autoveicolo). Valuta se ti può interessare :-)

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@jckarter @Symbo1ics damn

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

I wonder how many new languages have made it above #lisp on the blurb pipe. None I can think of.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

Calling a software developer a "coder" is like calling a musicist a "pentagram writer".
Was Mozart a simple pentagram writer? ...employing "best practices" (i.e. average practices)?
What matters is the software "melody" in your head, not how you represent sounds as notes.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

P.S. Java is supported.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@Microsoft any plans supporting #net5 on OpenVMS?

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@rmathew4tw VS Code is for the masses. There needs to be something for the masses.
For the rest of us, who want unparalelled customization through the power of #lisp, there is #Emacs.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@intellijidea @trisha_gee #emacs works in zen mode all the time. If you need your files in a touchy-feely way, you can either use dired or M-x speedbar.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

#customerfirst yep. But some customers shouldn't be allowed to engage with a computer.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

It's 2020 and we're still stuck drawing web UIs mostly with vanilla rectangles, reimplementing combo boxes and date pickers. A lot of fun... and wasted time. The web should get a real overhaul if we want to continue using it to deliver apps AND respecting programmers' time.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@GabrielG439 Yep, but it's nowhere near as fast as other programming languages at runtime.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@thomasfuchs If your webapp is a vanilka website, you'd be right. In general a webapp is a webapp, not a website and SPA is a good approach.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@dotnet @jeremylikness @SQLServer I would be happier if you guys attempted to fix LINQ first and made groupBy actually work, before adding new features.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

I always laugh and laugh when trying to explain CLOS fundamentals to vanilla OOP devs.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

Unfortunately I had to deal with IntelliJ IDEA today... and I found out its emacs keybindings are totally screwed up. (Btw its native keybindings are even worse.) I was tempted to fix them but then I thought who cares? ...thank God I can always use the one true #emacs.

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

"C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@HansHuebner use around methods in a different package ;-) j/k

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

Vive l'Europe!

[Francesco Frigo @frigofra]

@BillGates @nytimes do you think computers used to be more fun to play with back when you were a kid, compared to now (for a kid I mean)?