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2026-05-26,
of Lisps and binaries

Oat Grass, Tuesday, 26 May 12026 HE
2026-05-26 | 26E26 | 2026-146 | 2461187
2026-W22-2 | Q2 | Estate

logging machine, Soquel, California

2013-09-29 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
logging machine, Soquel, California

Nightwish – “Over the Hills and Far Away” ↗

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Lisps and Smalltalks are “image based” programming languages – your program depends as much on the state of the REPL as it does on any block of code – and I’ve heard plenty of accusations that Lisps are either interpreter only or they produced bloated binaries because they need to embed the image along with the compiled code – but I did some noodling around with a couple beginner Chicken Scheme programs and the Chicken Scheme compiler produced binaries on par with C

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