Yesterday's entry is late because I stayed up late and because TextRouter seemed to have some trouble logging into Blogger. Such as it is, I'll write at least two entries today.
First off, as noted by John Wiseman, MCL is now $95 USD. I have this twitchy impulse buying urge singing it's siren song to me, and it's still only 4.3.1 (which means it runs under OS X, but in Classic mode)! I'm thinking about emailing Digitool and asking what their upgrade price will be when 4.4 comes out. Digitool also got rid of the lame subscription model and made tech support per-incident with a yearly coverage option, which I think is smarter. The executable redistribution options and compiler redistribution options are still significantly pricey, but that's okay with me. MCL is such high quality work, I'm hoping this starts a bit of a price war amongst Lisp vendors. For years, the only sane economical choice for a decent Lisp on Windows has been Roger Corman's labor of love, Corman Lisp, which is actually quite good, but not as "professional" seeming as Franz's and Xanalys's offerings. Franz's insane pricing scheme is well known and has lead users of their admittedly good tools to port to lesser Lisps (like CMUCL) just to avoid going into development budget bankruptcy. It'll be especially interesting on the Mac OS X front since CLISP runs there, as does a beta of OpenMCL, as does an alleged version of Allegro CL 6.1, and soon, MCL 4.4.
There was an abortive attempt by me late last night to book another trip out to California with Southwest. You see, thanks to a friend, I've graciously been invited to a conference in May, and Southwest was running a weekly Internet special - $99 to San Diego from Albany. I was trying to fly from ALB to SAN ($99 USD) and from SAN to SJC ($53 USD) for around $152 USD excluding taxes and charges. I actually got around to finally deciding on doing it just before midnight Pacific time, and apparently, as I clicked to submit my order, the bell tolled for my special fare and I was out of luck. I don't mind though. I may not get another good deal before I'd like to be out west for the conference, but at least I don't have to scramble to try to contact people ahead of time to hastily work out airport pickup schedules and what not.
I wrote a four page long to do list for April 11th that I'm still working through. It's pretty varried, but at least I'm crossing things off, albeit slowly. A number of the items seem to be revising my generic resume into more specialized versions for various job opportunities. I'm not sure if I'm getting better or worse at doing that.
I'm referncing this entry as a work in progress in IRC, which means it's time to post.
First off, as noted by John Wiseman, MCL is now $95 USD. I have this twitchy impulse buying urge singing it's siren song to me, and it's still only 4.3.1 (which means it runs under OS X, but in Classic mode)! I'm thinking about emailing Digitool and asking what their upgrade price will be when 4.4 comes out. Digitool also got rid of the lame subscription model and made tech support per-incident with a yearly coverage option, which I think is smarter. The executable redistribution options and compiler redistribution options are still significantly pricey, but that's okay with me. MCL is such high quality work, I'm hoping this starts a bit of a price war amongst Lisp vendors. For years, the only sane economical choice for a decent Lisp on Windows has been Roger Corman's labor of love, Corman Lisp, which is actually quite good, but not as "professional" seeming as Franz's and Xanalys's offerings. Franz's insane pricing scheme is well known and has lead users of their admittedly good tools to port to lesser Lisps (like CMUCL) just to avoid going into development budget bankruptcy. It'll be especially interesting on the Mac OS X front since CLISP runs there, as does a beta of OpenMCL, as does an alleged version of Allegro CL 6.1, and soon, MCL 4.4.
There was an abortive attempt by me late last night to book another trip out to California with Southwest. You see, thanks to a friend, I've graciously been invited to a conference in May, and Southwest was running a weekly Internet special - $99 to San Diego from Albany. I was trying to fly from ALB to SAN ($99 USD) and from SAN to SJC ($53 USD) for around $152 USD excluding taxes and charges. I actually got around to finally deciding on doing it just before midnight Pacific time, and apparently, as I clicked to submit my order, the bell tolled for my special fare and I was out of luck. I don't mind though. I may not get another good deal before I'd like to be out west for the conference, but at least I don't have to scramble to try to contact people ahead of time to hastily work out airport pickup schedules and what not.
I wrote a four page long to do list for April 11th that I'm still working through. It's pretty varried, but at least I'm crossing things off, albeit slowly. A number of the items seem to be revising my generic resume into more specialized versions for various job opportunities. I'm not sure if I'm getting better or worse at doing that.
I'm referncing this entry as a work in progress in IRC, which means it's time to post.
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