@b0rk No, no, really it isn't inevitable. Inaccuracy of rational numbers is not inevitable at all - modern #Lisps (since about 1981) can handle perfectly accurate rationals up to extremely large, and down to extremely small sizes. Of course, their are infinitely many more irrationals than rationals, and irrationals cannot be perfectly represented. But they can be represented far more perfectly than can be managed in 64 bits.

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf#page=20

We're no longer short of store.

Just downloaded my Twitter archive and indulging in some reminiscence.

The 1st entry was…

Jun 21, 2008
thinking about xmpp

…and the 2nd

Jun 21, 2008
on top of a hill in the black mountains

also…

May 8, 2010
http://bit.ly/nAXkj /via at-avibryant
I laughed out loud about Lisp use of
"key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"

Plus ça change. If I picked some hashtags now they’d include:

- #TheBlackMountains
- #lisps including #racketlang , #scheme