Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food
Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals to the Pisan mercantile class. Mea…
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci, written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
Or Windows CE.
I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZSCHEME=mzscheme.exe ; :run ;…
M-x dissociated-press
There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly…
The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores. Personally, I'd rather see that app on…
Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users must enter APL characters by hunt and…
Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To…
... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exultation instead of terror.…
On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!
vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....
The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow analysis in higher-order programs. So…
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README).
If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ . The…
Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were increasing the rate at which symbols…
Not only are fingers very low-resolution input devices, but they're opaque and attached to a big meaty human hand, obscuring your view of whatever you're manipulating. The visibility problem worsens with multiple touch,…
Amen. This book is wonderfully quantitative, and in my experience discusses rye doughs like no other. I am also very fond of Emily Buehler's "Bread Science" (http://www.twobluebooks.com/book.php), particularly as a gift…
Or a Squeezebox Boom.
gnucash and lilypond are the two that immediately spring to mind-- but three does indeed stump me. snd uses Guile, but snd isn't itself GNU.
And for Schemes on .NET, in addition to the listed Common Larceny (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/) and IronScheme, there is also Bigloo (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/). Common Larceny uses the…
Back in the day, we called it "eating [our] own dogfood." Qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_ones_own_dog_food
Ah. I completely misunderstood the question, having just finished reading The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, which had a brief digression on Fibonnaci's evangelism of Arabic numerals to the Pisan mercantile class. Mea…
Fibonnaci and his Liber abaci, written after he encountered the superior Indo-Arabic system. See http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/fibonacci/index.html
Or Windows CE.
I whipped it with PLT Scheme in an afternoon. Trivial, like you said. This is my ant-make-scm.bat: ; @echo off && REM -*- scheme -*- ; if not "%MZSCHEME%" == "" goto :run ; set MZSCHEME=mzscheme.exe ; :run ;…
M-x dissociated-press
There is no JIT-compiler on Dalvik, and its garbage collector is a very slow mark-sweep. Both are known deficiencies being addressed by the Android team. I've been working with SISC Scheme on Android, where it is truly…
The iPad's the right size (ever balanced a laptop on its side on a piano's music desk?), and a touchscreen would certainly be convenient for turning pages and annotating scores. Personally, I'd rather see that app on…
Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
APL would seem to offer a solution to the challenges of programming on a 240-pel-wide device. Unfortunately, WinMo doesn't offer any way of extending its HR. So Pocket APL users must enter APL characters by hunt and…
Yet another Economist subscriber here, for international affairs. American Scientist, for science written for generalists. Bimonthly, so I'm not drowning in unread back issues (ever tried staying abreast of Nature?). To…
... The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn to recursive expressions instead of fearing them. I read and code strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exultation instead of terror.…
On behalf of every autodidact here, thank you for publishing those publicly. Cheers!
vim : Muttator :: emacs : ? Don't I wish....
The last time I noticed Matt Might's name, it was as a grad student advisee to Olin Shivers-- last surviving keeper of the CPS flame!-- writing a hairy dissertation on control-flow analysis in higher-order programs. So…
3000ms ping times were not unheard of in the early Starband satellite-broadband days.
The author currently contributes to the PLT Scheme ecosystem. Among other things, he is the primary author of Moby (qv http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme/blob/master/README).
If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ . The…
Yesterday's "speed reading" seed article claimed: Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement--period. as if the most important part of reading were increasing the rate at which symbols…
Not only are fingers very low-resolution input devices, but they're opaque and attached to a big meaty human hand, obscuring your view of whatever you're manipulating. The visibility problem worsens with multiple touch,…
Amen. This book is wonderfully quantitative, and in my experience discusses rye doughs like no other. I am also very fond of Emily Buehler's "Bread Science" (http://www.twobluebooks.com/book.php), particularly as a gift…
Or a Squeezebox Boom.
gnucash and lilypond are the two that immediately spring to mind-- but three does indeed stump me. snd uses Guile, but snd isn't itself GNU.
And for Schemes on .NET, in addition to the listed Common Larceny (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/) and IronScheme, there is also Bigloo (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/). Common Larceny uses the…