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Unicode Technology Workshop 2023(blog.unicode.org)
5 points by elangoc 3y ago|1 comments
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by elangoc 3y ago
People who use Parinfer rather than Paredit when learning Clojure really like it. The concept is available in the Clojure mode in all the usual suspects of IDEs (IntelliJ Cursive, emacs Cider, etc.) https://shaunlebron.github.io&
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by elangoc 4y ago
The simplicity of the visual language that Scratch provides inherits from the simplicity of Lisp, via Logo. The Logo language (& the Mindstorms pedagogical philosophy), which is what Scratch builds off of in a visual way, was implement
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by elangoc 5y ago
You seemed to have misunderstood what I was saying. I was pointing out that specifically in the case of chili spice, I don't think it's good for the body. There are data to support the idea that eating large amounts of capsaicin i
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by elangoc 5y ago
The thing about chili peppers is that they're not healthy (have medicinal benefits) in the way peppercorn and long pepper do. Capsaicin can be harmful in large quantities, IIUC. There are South Indian foods and snacks like venpongal an
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by elangoc 5y ago
Ah, I see... :-T
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by elangoc 6y ago
To add to that and concur that Rich generally doesn't have such un-nuanced strong opinions without context, see his talk Effective Programs. He explains what Clojure is good for and isn't good for, and says more clearly it so depe
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by elangoc 6y ago
I agree with the grandparent comment. The parent comment sounds like a random and non representative sampling of what makes Clojure unique. Both parent and grandparent correctly identify that many Clojure ideas come from elsewhere. Lisp and
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by elangoc 7y ago
Exactly. Wasn't Jobs proud to say, "Good artists copy, great artists steal"? Jobs made amazing things happen, but he also had a Reality Distortion Field with the best of them.
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by elangoc 7y ago
Indeed! https://elangocheran.com/2014/10/30/exploring-programming-in... https://youtu.be/MqjMZNwnYCY Although I started the above project around the same time as Ramsey started his project in
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by elangoc 8y ago
Same here, can you let me know, too? I'm just an idle observer, more often interested in consuming the polished findings, but am utterly fascinated and impressed by the work required to get there.
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by elangoc 8y ago
Can you also comment on how the current decipherments are going? And how much progress has been made in the Dravido-Elamite angle? This book came out that republishes incomplete research that establishes cognates and place name parallels,
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by elangoc 8y ago
Calling yourself a democracy doesn't excuse persistent, depraved, inhumane behavior like this: http://tamilguardian.com/content/sri-lankan-officers-involve...
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by elangoc 8y ago
It's quotes like this that deflect responsiblity: >“We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?” And this, too, which
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by elangoc 8y ago
As tempting as it is to believe this story's premise that Facebook is bullying?/neglecting? smaller countries and then fit that into the larger backlash against social media, I think it's very misleading to believe that actua
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by elangoc 9y ago
It was in order to get the CLJS REPL to feel more like the regular Clojure REPL: https://github.com/google/clojure-turtle/issues/15 The CLJS-macro story is still a little tricky -- CLJS targets the JS runtime
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by elangoc 9y ago
If you try the interactive examples on the main Readme page all the way to the end, you'll see there's a gradual, subtle shift from cutesy Logo to Clojure-style functional programming. But I owe more doc-writing along those lines
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by elangoc 9y ago
BASIC was my first programming language. Starting with the days of the Commodore 64, Apple IIe, and MS GWBASIC, but I never understood it well enough beyond a number guessing game or so. Then I had a class on Logo, and I was doing cool st
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by elangoc 10y ago
If the parent is Canadian, then you're talking about the same thing, effectively.
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by elangoc 11y ago
Yep. Ruby springs to mind. The creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), is Japanese. He co-wrote the first Ruby book, which was in Japanese. And a year later, he co-wrote the first book for Ruby that was in English.
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by elangoc 11y ago
Weak analogy. Text and language aren't as intrinsic to playing music and reading/writing sheet music as they are to reading/writing source code.
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by elangoc 11y ago
Yep. That's how it's spelled officially. I also know of it as தமிழ், for which "Thamil" is a more accurate transliteration.
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by elangoc 11y ago
I don't deny that the network effects of speaking the same language matter. They do. But if you're turned off to programming because it's too hard (b/c the language barrier), you may never care to put in the effort to
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by elangoc 11y ago
I've had people ask me, "Why don't we get everyone to speak just one language? That would make everything easier." That ignores a lot about the cultural meanings embedded in language and the human tendency to use languag
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by elangoc 11y ago
Thanks! If you want to try Icelandic, all you need to do is create a map or two where the keys are the English names and the values are the corresponding Icelandic ones. Then call translate-fns and translate-forms on the maps. You can fol
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Teaching kids to program in their native language(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
61 points by elangoc 11y ago|57 comments
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by elangoc 11y ago
Yeah, just wanted to drop in and affirm that I already knew that not everything can grow everywhere. (Ex: apples can grow in Appalachia, but they're famous in Washington state; potatoes may not grow well in Florida, and oranges wouldn&
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by elangoc 11y ago
If we invoke the ancient European idea of the "public trust doctrine" to bolster the justness of the argument that Vinod Khosla should create a path on his private land for the public use -- then why can't California invoke t
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by elangoc 11y ago
Clojure REPL at http://www.tryclj.com/ which has link to Github source code. Clojure(Script) REPL at http://clojurescript.io with source code at https://github.com/ScalaConsultants/replumb
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by elangoc 11y ago
you can start by watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3rurFxrZ8

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