What kind are you after? There's sort of two: 1. The Philosophical OOP, brought to us by Alan Kay's mind, which probably has to be experienced through a language with sufficient OO-ness. It's always the ship on the…
Or maybe it will invite them to try it out themselves? I think the 'which is clearer' thing is up to personal choice and experience. And personally, often when I'm programming in one not-Lisp, I'm often bitten by things…
> I always thought that this article read more like "How to become Eric S. Raymond". That seems like quite the coincidence given that Eric S. Raymond is the author of the article itself. Maybe there's something to that.…
I'm always interested in the suckless projects. I like emacs and vim, too, but it's interesting to see projects made which can just grab the fork, a sharp knife, and a good pan and make do instead of necessarily…
Slackware might be something to look into. While everything you might want isn't going to be a binary, there's some pretty good third party sources that regularly package things up for each release and the recommended…
You shouldn't find it odd. The course is about teaching interesting paradigms and how they can be used to solve problems, not teaching the easiest thing to beginners. The why not procedural/imperative answer /might/ be:…
Does anyone else feel like the only reason to choose systemd is the systemd-journal? That thing is just amazing. The amount of leverage provided by not just appending to a log file somewhere will really get the juices…
"Part of it is due to the very strict Python standard of coding." I don't know about that. Good code is good code. It's sort of one of those, "I'll know it when I see it" things. The ease of which you can code classes…
It would seem like they got people to believe that The End Was Nigh and that they should commit suicide to avoid said End (Yeah, hold on to your logic there). If he truly believed that it was the end, why would he need…
What kind are you after? There's sort of two: 1. The Philosophical OOP, brought to us by Alan Kay's mind, which probably has to be experienced through a language with sufficient OO-ness. It's always the ship on the…
Or maybe it will invite them to try it out themselves? I think the 'which is clearer' thing is up to personal choice and experience. And personally, often when I'm programming in one not-Lisp, I'm often bitten by things…
> I always thought that this article read more like "How to become Eric S. Raymond". That seems like quite the coincidence given that Eric S. Raymond is the author of the article itself. Maybe there's something to that.…
I'm always interested in the suckless projects. I like emacs and vim, too, but it's interesting to see projects made which can just grab the fork, a sharp knife, and a good pan and make do instead of necessarily…
Slackware might be something to look into. While everything you might want isn't going to be a binary, there's some pretty good third party sources that regularly package things up for each release and the recommended…
You shouldn't find it odd. The course is about teaching interesting paradigms and how they can be used to solve problems, not teaching the easiest thing to beginners. The why not procedural/imperative answer /might/ be:…
Does anyone else feel like the only reason to choose systemd is the systemd-journal? That thing is just amazing. The amount of leverage provided by not just appending to a log file somewhere will really get the juices…
"Part of it is due to the very strict Python standard of coding." I don't know about that. Good code is good code. It's sort of one of those, "I'll know it when I see it" things. The ease of which you can code classes…
It would seem like they got people to believe that The End Was Nigh and that they should commit suicide to avoid said End (Yeah, hold on to your logic there). If he truly believed that it was the end, why would he need…