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by blue1 17y ago
Perl does not enforce good practices, perl does not enforce nearly anything. Which means which is a good hackers tool (isn't this HN?), but probably not very suitable for your "people who don't know any better".
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by blue1 17y ago
there is a recent, open source recreation of Elite here: http://www.oolite.org It is a reasonable compromise between modernity and nostalgia, made me lose some time again :-)
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by blue1 17y ago
1. choose your lisp dialect: do you want to learn CL, Scheme, Arc, ...? 2. randomly pick an implementation of your chosen lisp. It really makes no difference as a beginner. I speak from experience. You can always switch later in a painless
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by blue1 17y ago
The "backward compatibility issue" means simply that the Common Lisp is a very large language, so it is slightly more scaring at first. Also, some things are strangely named for historical reasons. Regarding scheme vs CL, I don't want to st
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by blue1 17y ago
btw, arc is /not/ CL. It is another kind of lisp. As I understand it, arc is lisp as PG thought it should be. Other currents of thought exist.
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by blue1 17y ago
Common Lisp was an effort to create an unified, "industrial strength" version of Lisp, because at the time there were many. For this reason the resulting standard is very large and complex. Scheme has been designed with a different agenda (
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by blue1 17y ago
Which lisp are you talking about? For example, Common Lisp and Scheme are both languages of the lisp family, but they are rather different. The PG books are about Common Lisp. CL is defined in a very good ANSI standard. Where implementati
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by blue1 17y ago
So you can use Catalyst, a wonderful web framework.
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by blue1 17y ago
it seems that his friends are taking care of the issue: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.html?thread=515833#t51583...
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by blue1 17y ago
As I have understood it, the IRC friends noticed the absence, so one of them asked the family, who told him that erik was dead.
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by blue1 17y ago
me too I am surprised that bridge is so scarcely played among hackers. I find that learning a bidding system is not so different from learning a programming language.
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by blue1 17y ago
I've recently bought an Unicomp Customizer, At first I was slightly disappointed because, despite the sturdiness, it looks slightly cheaper than a Model-M in term of plastic quality. However, after using it for a while, I came to understa
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by blue1 17y ago
see the book "the paradox of choice" by barry schwartz. interesting read
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by blue1 17y ago
He made us think.
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by blue1 17y ago
Actually, the slashdot article is about LISP, all uppercased. It is the clueless variety of the language, not unlike PERL.
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by blue1 17y ago
catalyst is cool, but this article is content-free.
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by blue1 17y ago
As I understand it, about 65% of the EU budget is paid by the states as a percentage of their Gross National Income. This percentage is decided by the Council (i.e. the member states themselves). So in theory the fine could lighten the burd
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by blue1 17y ago
"The amount of the fines is paid into the Community budget. The fines therefore help to finance the European Union and reduce the tax burden on individuals." http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/overview/faqs_en.htm...
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by blue1 17y ago
It is perfectly normal (and sane) to hate school. Protest, but don't whine. And do your work anyway.
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by blue1 18y ago
When I started learning perl, more than a decade ago, I loved that there were so many cool syntactic tricks. From what I see reading this article, perl6 brings even more cool syntactic tricks(/features). But then I discovered the regular be
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by blue1 18y ago
also, writing that a cracker is a "burgler" instead of a "burglar" does not make it more authoritative.
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by blue1 18y ago
Also, "Creating" by robert fritz is not bad. But beware, reading books about creatity may become a form of procrastination.
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by blue1 18y ago
For pc: I asked the ALU webmaster about the fate of the CLRFI site. He said: "The CLRFI has been (successfully, imo) superseded by the Common Lisp Document Repository < http://cdr.eurolisp.org/> . So when we had to rebuild the serve
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by blue1 18y ago
I absolutely love Common Lisp, but it has some problematic areas, which are not the classical stupid ones you sometimes still hear from clueless people (such as "lots of parentheses", "lisp is slow", "lisp is for AI only" etc.). I won't eve
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by blue1 18y ago
The original squad leader is long out of print. I suspect Hasbro owns the rights to it, since they acquired AH. Advanced Squad Leader instead is alive and well, being republished and expanded by MultiManPublishing. http://www.multimanpubli
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by blue1 18y ago
50 km from padova, here.
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by blue1 18y ago
Now you know why one of the shuttle commanders said that landing is a shuttle is like landing a brick.
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by blue1 18y ago
isn't this a boolean version of the old Usenet Oracle?