Zygo does have infix available in addition to traditional lisp parentheses. Just put the math (or whatever) inside curly braces. I much prefer math in infix, so I put in a Pratt parser for that.
Wow. I have the exact opposite experience with TDD. I use TDD to set a specific goal, and to have the computer tell me almost instantly when I've reached it. Then I can unleash creativity in trying implementations, and know instantly if they've worked. Occassionally I'll get a lucky guess in that works. Such a great feeling knowing immediately that my intuition was right.
Stranger in a strange land is socially conservative?? (and i don't just mean the pro-poly parts - that book was generally very influential to the hippie movement)
Like there's a lot i disagree with about the views expressed in his novels, but social conservatism is not something i would accuse him of.
I haven’t got around to Stranger in a Strange Land - which is weird because that’s his most populist book.
I’m thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It had group marriages, but the marriage practices were ordained by custom and tradition. Not 20th century custom and tradition, but custom and tradition none the less.
I think the moon is a harsh mistress is also the one that has the scene where the female lead wants to help on the farm, but her boobs are too "distracting" to the men folk, so she goes back to the kitchen instead. (Its been a while, i might be misrepresenting it)
Which stood out to me as first and foremost being shockingly mysogynistic, but also i guess is pretty strongly pro traditional gender roles.
At the same time though, the female lead is a political agitator/rebel, which is quite far removed from what i would consider traditional gender roles.
In any case though, i think when people talk about someone being socially conservative, they mean more in the context of contemporary practise. Like moon is harsh mistress may have practises deemed "traditional" in universe to the characters, but as a work, its setup as a commentary on contemporary norms, so its still arguing for change as a work, even if its not doing so explicitly in the text by the characters.
> I think the moon is a harsh mistress is also the one that has the scene where the female lead wants to help on the farm, but her boobs are too "distracting" to the men folk, so she goes back to the kitchen instead. (Its been a while, i might be misrepresenting it)
There is no such scene in that book.
In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, any man who laid a finger on a woman uninvited would find himself on the wrong side of an airlock without a suit.
> She was gorgeous. When she undulated down a corridor, boys followed in swarms.
> She started to learn farming from Greg but Mum put stop to that. While she was big and smart and willing, our farm is mostly a male operation--and Greg and Hans were not only male members of our family
distracted; she cost more farming man-hours than her industry equaled. So Wyoh went back to housework, then Sidris took her into beauty shop as
helper.
Its not precisely as i remember it, but i think its still strongly suggestive that some things are "woman's work"
> In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, any man who laid a finger on a woman uninvited would find himself on the wrong side of an airlock without a suit.
I didn't mean distracting in the sense she was going to be sexually assualted, but on that score, despite what the characters claim in the book, the society depicted seems to have a very questionable definition of what consent means and ignores issues of coercion.
What makes you think i'm offended by it? Being unconvinced by the sexual politics of the novel's world and being offended are very different things. I read and enjoy many things i'm unconvinced by. Life would be really boring if i agreed with every idea i ever read. And well he's certainly not my favourite author i have enjoyed many of his novels and many of them contain interesting ideas.
> despite your unfamiliarity
You literally just told me a specific scene didn't exist, despite the fact it clearly does as evidenced by me finding it again and quoting it at you. Perhaps i'm not the one who needs to re-read this novel.
I think it would be more accurate to say he believed in traditional gender roles quite strongly, but very little in the societal institutions of the 1950s. Some ideas he promotes in his writing: polyamory, group marriage, distrust of centralized authority.
I don't think so - yes he has this weird trope where most of his female characters after meeting the main male char want to settle down and become a home maker for unclear reasons, but prior to that point in the book typically the female characters are very independent and competent in roles that are not traditional gender roles.
Google uses a subset of python called Starlark for build configuring (available in Go and I think Java). Nice if you want to be able to compute things during config.
Lua is fantastic for implementing languages. I did an implementation of Golang in it (https://github.com/gijit/gi). With metatables one can implement any kind of object/inheritance/interface scheme. Full builtin asymmetric coroutines, and a massively performant, ABI compatible backend (a just-in-time trace compiler) in LuaJIT are amazing tools.
Thank you. I tend to do interactive mathy things, and find the infix being the default at the repl cuts down on keystrokes and speeds up the interaction. Anything within {} curly braces is treated as infix, and infix is the starting mode at the repl. You can freely mix (prefix) and {infix} as you wish. For longer math expressions this does tend to help readability.
