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_h1 comments on the '{lambda way} project

_p This is what Ward Cunningham told me about this work (2014/04/29):
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« I am impressed with this work and understand {b its uniqueness better now}. I have also rambled through other pages you have made, many as experiments I would guess, and have been summarized by you in this single work. Bravo. »
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_p And also, a few months later:
{blockquote {i « I was surprised that the technique worked so well in so many cases. I knew that regex are highly optimized and the cpus themselves optimize sequential access to memory which the regex must have at its core. [..] Yes, this has at its heart the repeated application of a text transformation. The fact that it is repeated application of the same transformation makes it exceptional. [..] Repeated application of Regular Expressions can perform Touring Complete computations. This works because the needed "state" is in the partially evaluated text itself. » All is said!
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_p and recently (19/07/2020)
{blockquote {i « I’ve always admired your work, both the interpreter and your exploration of its capabilities. In the wiki tradition it offers clear passage into the networking and graphic capabilities of the browser. Thompson sees it as a philosophical artifact rooted in history and uncovered anew by you. »
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_p And Simon Peyton Jones (2019/02/14):
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« I took a quick look. It looks cool -- I like the simple, minimal, but powerful approach. »
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_p And also Paul McJones (2019/02/16):
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« I have admired the power and elegance of the lambda calculus since I first learned of it around 1970. And I have admired the elegance of the Wiki idea since I first ran across Ward Cunningham’s Wiki some years back. You’ve combined these ideas in a very interesting way, and {b you figured out a way to harness the power of web technologies} (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc.) to implement them. »
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_p On June 2014 somebody (pseudo "maufedz") wrote in [[Reddit|https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1xfsd3/alphawiki/]]:
{blockquote {i « I like it when I find this simple yet powerful ideas implemented, these are the things that when you see them you think, Why didn't I think of that? I think the results you have gotten from it speak by themselves, very nice looking dynamic pages, and very nice looking PDF export. I also liked your presentation on the 7th ELS, I saw a video of it, I was not there. »}}

_p On April 2016 somebody (pseudo "sitkack") wrote in Hacker News:
{blockquote {i « This is brilliant by the way. Definitely show it to more people and get feedback, it is so outside of the norm that {b it will take time for the idea to spread}. »}}

_p This guy had therefore seen right, this project is probably very outside of the norm ... and the idea has no yet found where to spread. Meanwhile you can analyze a fork in Github by [[graham_simkins]] and some more comments [[here|http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=comments]]...

_p This is a recent comment (spring 2022) from [[steinuil|https://lobste.rs/u/steinuil]]:
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_p I’m not quite sure how to describe '{lambda way}. It’s a wiki based on a very simple programming language written in JS which looks like a lisp (it does have macros) but based on term rewriting (I think it’s just implemented using regular expressions, which is why it doesn’t have closures) that outputs HTML. If you press the start button (on top of this page) you can see that the pages of this wiki are '{lambda talk} programs that can be edited in real time.

_p It’s a very idiosyncratic project, but it has a lot of interesting ideas.
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_p I couldn't say better!

_p {i last update 2022/06/12}