Common Lisp Blockchain - Scheme Coin

David McClain dbm at refined-audiometrics.com
Mon Dec 18 23:00:43 UTC 2017


Well, I thought, after delving deeper into the code, that it might be some kind of sophisticated programmer humor, making a comment about the vast amount of CPU cycles devoted to nonsensical computing or some such… 

- DM


> On Dec 18, 2017, at 15:54, Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> wrote:
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>> On 18 Dec 2017, at 23:31, David McClain <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com <mailto:dbm at refined-audiometrics.com>> wrote:
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>> umm… was this supposed to be some kind of joke? I’ll bite... I don’t get it. I was actually hoping to learn something here...
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>> But the code does look rather peculiar on close inspection. Why the use of macros for pushing new transaction blocks? And the conversions to octet vectors may work for strings, but not in general for arbitrary integer or float values…
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>> If it is supposed to be a joke, I’ll chuckle and just chuck the code…
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> I guess not: https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4 <https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4>
> It’s like, everybody will be busy implementing blockchains.  It’s the new fizz-buzz…
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> __Pascal J. Bourguignon__
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