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@paco Definitely a comprehensive process.

@melindrea And besides, the same could be said of emojis but people still use them.

Carlos Collazo on why he still uses em dashes despite the symbol being associated with AI output.

If an em dash is the only thing preventing someone from thinking your writing has been spit out of Chat GPT I think you have bigger problems.

https://carlosacollazo.com/you-can-pry-em-dashes-from-my-cold-dead-hands

#ai #writing

@goosey Me too. At the time I couldn't afford a machine that could run Modula-3.

@pmcjones

@vintagemachine Welcome, glad to have you here.

@weekend_editor And noisy.

@symbolics

@weekend_editor Here are more AAAI 82 photos, maybe you're in there somewhere.

https://interlisp.org/history/timeline/#1982

@symbolics

@symbolics No, they're actually not X windows but native Interlisp-D windows on the window holding the Medley screen. The title bars may give the impression of X windows but you can set the same bar shading on black&white Medley too.

@weekend_editor

@symbolics Right, D-machines with Interlisp-D supported color on an external screen. The Medley repo still has code for color demos:

https://files.interlisp.org/medley/lispusers

https://files.interlisp.org/medley/lispusers/COLORDEMO.pdf

@weekend_editor

@symbolics For context the screenshot I linked was likely taken on a Unix workstation running the Medley version of Interlisp-D, the first for Unix.

@weekend_editor

@symbolics Here is Interlisp-D in color:

https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/yCTSn6IxQ8Q/m/dxrQpUBQAQAJ

@weekend_editor

@kevinctofel More Firefox crap is rolling out.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/firefox-privacy-focused-direct-results-psa-10-28-25

@Sempf

@simoninireland Modula-3 deserved more attention and tools.

@pmcjones

Paul McJones @pmcjones posted a short history of Modula-3 with references to further resources. I didn't know a group of ex Xerox PARC researchers was part of the lineage of the language.

https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2025/10/25/1496

#modula3 #retrocomputing

@symbolics I've never seen a screenshot of Interlisp-D in color. I'm not sure whether the color logo in this AAAI 82 photo is an actual monitor or just a sign.

https://interlisp.org/photos/AAAI82/AAAI82_9_hu_4a14d9fb5d0b6063.jpg

@weekend_editor

@weekend_editor The 1983 edition of the Interlisp Reference Manual has a section on color graphics on Xerox 11xx machines.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp/Interlisp_Reference_Manual_Oct_1983.pdf#page=576

@symbolics

@arclight Thanks for the insight.

Ned Batchelder @nedbat on why exceptions are better than returning status codes.

Exceptions let you leave error handling code out of much of your code. Exceptions are transmitted automatically through layers that have no knowledge of them, so you can write useful code that has no error handling logic at all.

https://nedbatchelder.com/text/exceptions-vs-status.html

#programming

@nina_kali_nina The Mesa environment and the Laurel email client of Xerox Alto provided an hourglass icon in the late 1970s and likely earlier:

https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/Ef99B2R45yY/m/X3mDAsu2AAAJ

@nina_kali_nina This is the hourglass icon of Interlisp-D from a later edition of the Interlisp Reference Manual.