igneous4

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by igneous4 16y ago
Bazaar is conspicuously missing. My guess is that "other" is mostly Bazaar. Aside: would've been neat to see a "version control by OS" pie chart for GNU/Linux.
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Ask HN: Definition of "startup"? Business entity required?
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by igneous4 16y ago
Racket and Common Lisp seem way more difficult than Python. I learned Python in a very short amount of time, and it was very easy (it's just functions, classes, C-like syntax, and boom , you're writing programs in Python). Tried learning
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by igneous4 16y ago
> in such a way that you can apply it to any language After working through some of SICP, would you recommend then using Scheme for practical projects?
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by igneous4 16y ago
Pandoc lets you write in a slightly (and tastefully) enhanced Markdown, but also lets you drop down to write LaTeX macros if you like.
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by igneous4 16y ago
You might just use Pandoc. It happens to use LaTeX behind the scenes to create pdf's, but there's nothing that says it must do so in the future.
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by igneous4 16y ago
> Its darwinian I think you're correct, but that there are trade-offs. Take Python, for example. They have "batteries included", and when modules make it into the std lib, they pretty much stop evolving. However , on the up-side, Pytho
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by igneous4 16y ago
In what ways is Guile different from other Schemes, such as Gambit and Chicken? Is Guile a good Scheme to start off with when first learning Scheme?
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by igneous4 16y ago
Thanks for those equivalents, Sam! Informative. That first `(map #...)` is particularly interesting. Looks like you're applying the item lookup operation across the list of indices. Neat.
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by igneous4 16y ago
Thanks for the reply, Sam. To provide some small examples, I often use Perl, and it gives me some syntax that saves me typing, such as: * `my @other_list = @a_list[3, 1, 4]` to return just those items from a list (item 3, item 1, and item 4
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by igneous4 16y ago
Like many folks, I'd reckon, I've really meant to learn Lisp or Scheme better, but it just seems like -- with the lack of syntax -- it would be tedious to write out every single operation as a function/procedure call. Is Lisp/Scheme as te