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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 14:50:57 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   It tells you something about the state of affairs for Lisp that the most popular guide to Common Lisp, Practical Common Lisp, uses a CD library, an MP3 browser and an ID3 parser as example projects, which was probably hip in 1998, but is hopelessly out of date now, because 1998 was 20 years ago and we use Spotify and iTunes now, and CDs and MP3 players are dead.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 14:54:03 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      In 1998, I was indeed busy ripping CDs, toying with WinAmp skins and visualisers, and experimenting with MP3 bitrates, but I was 16 years old and was just moving away from Pascal and into C programming, and Lisp wasn't even on the radar.