The initial revision of ASDF was only 418 lines long, compared to 14130 today. The key ideas of ASDF is entirely present in those 418 lines—even though in many ways, the algorithm used is unredeemably buggy (see the ASDF 3 paper and/or my blog posts on the matter).
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org “The only difference between a military and a terrorist often is that the former lives off taxes taken by force from the population, whereas the latter only aspires to it.”
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:08 PM Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
The initial commit in git is:
commit c58257d94bfae7d5a2f527fc1f2d587a0fef8222 Author: Daniel Barlow <> Date: Wed Aug 1 17:52:49 2001 +0000
Initial revisionIf you want to find out when he actually started working on it, you should ask Daniel which day he started working on it—or maybe dig the archives of some old forums (sbcl-devel? comp.lang.lisp?).
In any case, you'll have to wait two more years for the 25th anniversary of ASDF. But this year, you can celebrate the 11th anniversary of ASDF 3! Wow. Time flies.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org “I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” — Clarence Darrow
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 11:33 AM cage cage-dev@twistfold.it wrote:
Hi!
Some person (including me) was wondering when the ASDF project started; on the fediverse someone guessed that the 25th anniversary could be near. Is that true?
Bye! C.