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Shorel
19y ago
I think that you have to learn how to program because if you don't need the skills in your day to day work, at least you need the skills to judge correctly how much work a given task takes, and to understand the possible complications of th
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19y ago
In my experience, to normal people who are simply math students, but without any previous programming experience, C syntax is ugly and Lisp syntax is clean and beautiful. Lisp is so much easier for them, that I think that your statements d
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You can't learn lisp with PCL. You can marvel and say ohhh Lisp can do that kind of stuff! But you can't really learn the language with a handful of pre-made examples. To learning lisp I recommend: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/facul
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19y ago
Well if you want to check if somebody is putting in the hours, you could manage it all with Subversion and commit scripts. Then you just check commit time and frecuency ^^ For quality code you need (to be) a good developer to know that.
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19y ago
I don't use the computer all the day in the same position. That is, sometimes I'm close to the screen, and sometimes I'm far from it. So, when I'm close to the screen I prefer Windows fonts. They look sharper and Apple ones look blurry. Whe
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Somebody else here. I do hate Java because it's unnecesarily complex. That is, I hate J2EE and all the f@#$%@#%g stuff I must do to simply pass a variable from one form to another. It's like having chains hanging from my body and trying to
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The famous books are not good for beginners. This one is very good for beginners: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/shapiro/Commonlisp/ In fact, that one is the one that finaly teached me Lisp.