Benedikt Steger

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Benedikt Steger

MSc UZH

I am a software engineer living in the Zürich area in Switzerland. After the GIScience master degree from the University of Zürich, I specialized on database design (SQL). Since Lisp to the best of my knowledge has become too unpopular to be taught at the University of Zürich, at the ETH Zürich or at the MIT in Boston (USA), I learned Common Lisp in an autodidactic way with the help of MIT's curricula, always focussing on practical use.

I am able to intelligibly communicate complex computer structures. Additionally, I am able to precisely understand the needs of customers and help with the formulation of those needs. I am able to structurally translate them to the domains of computer languages, always with a special eye for computer security. I acquired those abilities through the years at the Literargymnasium Rämibühl (ZH), where I finished with the Matura 2010.

Contact

You can reach me by email. Those interested in PGP can download my public PGP key.

Projects

GOBOL: A comment-preserving COBOL parser in Common Lisp. At the moment, GOBOL is capable of parsing NIST's CCVS85 (ANSI85) NC module and the files SM101-SM107. The AST printer produces correct and consistent COBOL files.
The Offline Oriented (TOO): My library TOO creates offline available ZIM files with map tiles, some useful layers and a disambiguated place name index.
- Introduction presentation
- Demo file
PostgreSQL/PostGIS database with 400+ own tables/views/functions, supporting systems commonly called PIM, DMS, BIM, GIS, VDR, ...
Personalized GNU/Linux live systems running entirely in RAM: my approach to the new "code is infrastructure" paradigma. This is very useful for infrastructure resilience, since backup recovery becomes a part of the daily routine.
Advent of Code 2021 solutions in Common Lisp.

Afterthoughts

Ben's insight

Complexity control is all about tailored languages, and Common Lisp "are" the tailored languages that successfully control complexity.

Bright future

In the future, computers will write software. Why? Because Common Lisp will be well known.

Unreal programmers

Unreal programmers use a pure, unadorned language. They can even identify your requirements as a consequence.

Could be from 47°20'22"N 8°37'59"E

No, no, no; I recommend this risk reduction not only because of the competitive advantage - this "Lisp thing" serves as an exclusive and prestigious idea for years to come!

The best talent

The best talent avoids accidental complexity, frames the essential complexity according to the team's understanding, integrates invisibly, performs productively, keeps delivering during demanding times and is retrained quickly. Who would have thought that I am speaking of Common Lisp?

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Even the resurfaced symbolic programming approach resulted in activity in the Broca area (p<0.0001). Our research consequently shows that non-instrumental music is unsuitable for programming tasks to a high degree.
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Imprint

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The afterthoughts are Copyright © 2022 Benedikt Steger. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify these documents under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.

The ark application icon is released under the GPLv2+ license, the printer symbol under the LGPLv2.1+ license.

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