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2026-09-14 20:33 UTC

@prahou@merveilles.town Did you know that @GIMP@floss.social was a common lisp program, but it switched to scheme, apparently because the original developers didn't appear to know about lisp's arrays but found out about scheme's arrays. (Actually, I heard a version of the story that they just genuinely thought lists were more appropriate (however not performant in context), but the project changed to SIOD and then tinyscheme in the first years anyway). @Krita@mastodon.art

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  • @GIMP@floss.social 2026-09-14 20:40

    @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @prahou@merveilles.town @Krita@mastodon.art please stop trolling :-) GIMP was originally written in COBOL for a CDC mainframe, and you had to use punched cards to specify mouse movement.

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