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601.
by pmarin 18y ago
Eric Raymond: it was reported to me at the time that English has a richer technical vocabulary than any other language and is therefore simply a better tool for the job Or probably English is simply the most easy to learn.
602.
by pmarin 18y ago
There are lot of dialects of LOGO in other languages than English
603.
by pmarin 18y ago
Amazing. the wikipedia says: "which, without the header file, cannot be quickly or easily typed on some international and non-QWERTY keyboards" Anyone have one of those keyboards?
604.
Example of Moore's Law(flickr.com)
2 points by pmarin 18y ago|0 comments
605.
by pmarin 18y ago
It is not heresy, it is common sense.
606.
Purpose-Built Languages(queue.acm.org)
3 points by pmarin 18y ago|1 comments
607.
by pmarin 18y ago
It is true but... what are we talking about? freedom of the code or your freedom?
608.
by pmarin 18y ago
>The GPL would give it rights (it would be "free"), while >the BSD license would allow it to be sold into slavery >("non-free.") Conclusion: The BSD license gives the freedom to to be sold. (Really-free).
609.
by pmarin 18y ago
Why this new has currently 13 points?
610.
by pmarin 18y ago
Don't worry, you will not need them at the begining. When you find some problem where you need maths just learn about it (the wikipedia is nice place to start). The problem is to identificate which maths fields you need to solve de problem.
611.
by pmarin 18y ago
The moderm tiling WMs (DWM/awesome/xmonad) allow you to use a dinamic layout (overlapping) if you want.
612.
Bell Labs Innovations Song(doc.cat-v.org)
2 points by pmarin 18y ago|0 comments
613.
A Lisp interpreter written in Awk.(github.com)
16 points by pmarin 18y ago|0 comments
614.
by pmarin 18y ago
Well, think about the time that you could spend in testing and debugging each platform and the time that you can spent in only one.
615.
by pmarin 18y ago
I think that the only sane way is to "support Unix". Avoid conditional compiling and features that are only in one platform and use standard libraries. Of course this is the most difficult approach and usually impossible to make.
616.
by pmarin 18y ago
Nice, there is also a tile window manager based in DWM for the console: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
617.
by pmarin 18y ago
...or the vim way ;)
618.
by pmarin 18y ago
I think the different is that in Tcl there is a defined Core team ( http://tcl.tk/community/coreteam/ ) who mantain the code while Guido delegates in others. I don't know which is better although in the last years the core team have done
619.
by pmarin 18y ago
you are welcome ;)
620.
John Ousterhout retires from Tcl Core Team(groups.google.com)
15 points by pmarin 18y ago|6 comments
621.
by pmarin 18y ago
Awk is one of my favourite software tool language, but some of these one-liner scripts can be done better with sed and tr.
622.
Interview about the history of Perl(computerworld.com.au)
3 points by pmarin 18y ago|1 comments
623.
by pmarin 18y ago
Even there is a hacker comunity based in these principles: http://www.suckless.org/common/index.html (KISS with steroids)
624.
by pmarin 18y ago
give me an example of something that i can't filter in a sed/grep/ed/awk/perl script.
625.
by pmarin 18y ago
My favorite vim plugin is to not use any plugin: use the filter command "!", the unix way.
626.
by pmarin 18y ago
# [set x 3] set x can't read "x": no such variable # puts hello --nothing happens-- What are you talking about?
627.
by pmarin 18y ago
Well, Tcl is faster than Ruby and now we don't use the associative arrays we use the dict instead. What version of tcl have you used?
628.
by pmarin 18y ago
Yes It is out of date but I think the author did a great work explaining the language's features.
629.
by pmarin 18y ago
Keep It Simple¡ it's the feature that I want.
630.
Tcl the Misunderstood (not too new)(antirez.com)
31 points by pmarin 18y ago|17 comments

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