wicket232

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by wicket232 15y ago
If you don't like the direction that the current default Ubuntu desktop is going, I suppose you could always try one of the variants, such as [Lubuntu]( http://lubuntu.net/ ). That's where I'll probably head, since I'm running an older Ubun
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by wicket232 15y ago
Once you add indentation, and know the simple rule that args line up vertically (unless they're so short that you'd rather leave them), the following is pretty easy to read: (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (*
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by wicket232 15y ago
Perl 6 is still "Perlish", in the sense of TIMTOWTDI and DWIMmy-ness. However, after playing around with Perl 6 a little bit, I'm not convinced that it keeps Perl 5's practical simplicity. I suspect that there's a whole crowd of Perl 5 lov
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by wicket232 15y ago
[Indeed]( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImplementations ). And [this]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Other_forks_and_clones ). That said, I wonder about the possibility of taking an Emacs written in some other language and adding
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by wicket232 15y ago
Just curious: why SWT over Swing? (I've read that Java 6 included some Swing performance improvements.)
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by wicket232 15y ago
In the comments, what important truths about GNU's nature is Tom talking about? (Where he writes "but recently I have learned, painfully, that I was only part of GNU by denying important truths about its nature.")
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by wicket232 15y ago
Niecza sounds like it's coming along nicely but I'm not interested in relying on Mono or .NET. Is there a Perl 6 implementation for any other free VM's (aside from Parrot)? I've heard Lua's is very fast. Or maybe LLVM?