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title: "Terry Palfrey (@Fiesty) | Hashnode"
description: "Hang around, watch and share. Read the latest articles by Terry Palfrey on Hashnode."
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@Fiesty

# Terry Palfrey

@Fiesty · Joined September 2021

Hang around, watch and share.

## Comments

[Thank you and keep up the good work. I might have to relearn, reinstall and log into the irc channel. I have an idea for a writing tool that starts with a boundaried box of a settable character line length, a text editor, a dictionary and thesaurus. There appear, to my mind, to be several line lengths that carry very specific attributes in relation to tone and impact of writing. I want to explore this locally on my machine with restricted boundaries that draw from alternative and substituted wording based on a lookup which causes more mindful writing due to shading and nuance that doesn't just fall out of the mix in free wheeling and pantsing across a page. The other part of this is your paradigm, the box you are in based on the abstraction you use to make the ones and zeroes run around on former rocks with captured lightning at your finger tips. LISP, despite the fact I don't have the facility, immediately shone as the almost perfect abstraction tool. I watched a friend bootstrap his meagre scripting and rudimentary C skills onto a LISP scripting language also with an interpreter into an app for data base search in his company that took the well paid dev team six months to duplicate, mostly, for functionality.](https://hashnode.com/posts/pros-and-cons-of-picolisp-unfolded/6131e6bbb51c5a4fca0d1b04/comment/613270ee36015b2f4e128a0a)

Comment · Article · Sep 3, 2021 · [Pros and Cons of PicoLisp Unfolded](https://hashnode.com/posts/pros-and-cons-of-picolisp-unfolded/6131e6bbb51c5a4fca0d1b04)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY&t=664s](https://hashnode.com/posts/functional-programming-in-picolisp/612f415e4e9d8114f8ae1283/comment/612fc21dbb796223ef27a789#reply-612fc243c21ac123ca377f5a)

Reply · Article · Sep 1, 2021 · [Functional Programming in PicoLisp](https://hashnode.com/posts/functional-programming-in-picolisp/612f415e4e9d8114f8ae1283)

[Already sold, this is a place I will come and read as often as there are posts. Personally love XKCD. My LISP interests all started with two books, "Masterminds of Programming" and "Coders at Work" which interviewed the top language creators that almost everything rests upon and their common LISP backgrounds. They also implied a guarantee for LISP, once grok'd, that you could go back years later and read the code as plain English unlike many legacy languages. I'll share this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUCcjHTmGY&t=664s](https://hashnode.com/posts/functional-programming-in-picolisp/612f415e4e9d8114f8ae1283/comment/612fc21dbb796223ef27a789)

Comment · Article · Sep 1, 2021 · [Functional Programming in PicoLisp](https://hashnode.com/posts/functional-programming-in-picolisp/612f415e4e9d8114f8ae1283)