madrik

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by madrik 9y ago
Feynman had read both books. He mentioned the prefatory quote from 'Calculus Made Easy' in an interview given to Omni Magazine in 1979: "... I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can'
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by madrik 15y ago
What is this? Watch your speech, because Big Sib has installed the Netpolice; that which does not ingratiate itself to the fancies of the power-mongers shall be expunged. No service provider should bear, or provide any means to further, th
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by madrik 16y ago
Couldn't you have made Perl write the proprietary language programs for you?
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by madrik 16y ago
The 7th, CTM, is a successor to SICP. It is a classic of modern times. I've heard of the third one, Concrete Mathematics. I vaguely remember reading of the 4th, HOPL 2, and the 5th, Computer Organisation and Design. As far as I recall, they
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by madrik 16y ago
Agreed with your last point. I have read about people who loved Lisp so much, that they wrote Lisp to write programs in other languages for them. Two cases: * http://www.merl.com/papers/TR93-17/ (Lisp to Pascal) * Erik Naggum told of
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by madrik 16y ago
"Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages." - From the GNU manifesto Maybe just implement GCC in Lisp? Or am I just nitpicking?
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by madrik 16y ago
What if his files end with ".hs"?
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by madrik 16y ago
Emacs be an organism. It be runnin' all the while. On the other hand, I'll admit to using vi from eshell.
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by madrik 16y ago
Madness? This is VIM!
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by madrik 16y ago
Ye can gain mine Emacs when ye wrest it from mine chill, mortified fingers.
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by madrik 17y ago
Acknowledged and appreciated. Thanks to both posters.
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by madrik 17y ago
So, ends first, means second?
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Ask HN: Recommend first programming language to master (options included)
4 points by madrik 17y ago|7 comments
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by madrik 17y ago
The first eleven points are fairly regularly touted as the strong points of vi. I'm specifically interested in the twelfth point that states: "Writing with vi is as close as you will ever come to writing in your own handwriting and still
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12 Reasons to Learn and Use the vi Editor(websiterepairguy.com)
4 points by madrik 17y ago|2 comments