Was so proud; couldn't bring myself to do the violence of re-attribution: let it stand.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

"[W]indowing was to emulate the familiar, comforting desktop, a cluttered one at that. But it is extremely difficult to use efficiently a system that displays bits and pieces of documents . . . with just their edges sticking out here and there to identify them."

Using e.g. StumpWM's windowlist, I can unambiguously navigate to some desired window without guessing from partial information.

If it is the case, furthermore, that "windowing was to emulate the familiar, comforting desktop;" I think it's a skeuomorphism that we can profitably abandon.

Let psychedelics be analogous to the random walk: it may be the case that one finds oneself shaken from some local optimum only to be banished to a desert of suboptimal states and no deterministic way to return.

Occasionally, Racket has a package that I'd like to port (e.g. datalog); but I find it otherwise overbearing.

Chicken has found some local maximum of efficiency and availability of useful libraries.

Years later, people will spontaneously write and reminisce about such and such a talk on e.g. extending Roxygen.

This is, incidentally, the same format as my daughter's bed-time stories; coincidence?

  > Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
  > Summary: small poll for my new operating system

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/bind

They did; and, in some cases, I risked losing my job by writing in Scheme. I eventually prevailed, however; and, in one case, converted a Python shop.

> And, in your experience, do any military projects still require Ada?

Java more than Ada, in my experience; but I wonder if Ada's niche isn't aviation and other real-time systems.

A few things that really came in handy: XML ↔ S-expression equivalence (for writing functional XML parsers); code-data unification (for structurally composing documents); arbitrary precision arithmetic; etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_(Unite...

My projects usually evolve from a TODO file with source-code fragments for subproblems; then, by a process of conjugation, the fragments are tangled into viable products.

The TODO captures the evolution of the project, and follows the trajectory of eventually accepted or rejected ideas.

[1] http://orgmode.org/guide/Working-With-Source-Code.html

While I set out at first to disprove the axiom that "Scheme is not commercially viable;" Chicken is now my preferred method of writing performant, robust and literate code.

You qualified your inference with a conditional (to be fair); but I still find the implication irritating.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-14.html...

[2] http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z...