Comment Re:teach them right! (Score 1) 510
Along those lines: Racket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/
Along those lines: Racket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/
It is if the twittererer (sorry, don't know this modern lingo - the guy who is twittering)
"Twat" is the term you're looking for.
And write 3x as much **production** quality code.
Oh, you mean the things that didn't work with C back in 1988 and didn't work with C++ in 1994 and didn't work with Perl in 1998 and didn't work with Java in 2003 and didn't work with C# in 2008 won't work with Ruby in 2011? Gosh, it's almost like all that prior experience is transferrable somehow, if only we could find some commonality.
I live in the south, and in general, when not in a the presence of black people, the term is still used freely as a synonym for a black person. And no...this is not a bunch of mouth breathing, uneducated rednecks. On the contrary, they are from all walks of life, and most that I am speaking off first knowledge of, are wealthy, well educated and often in places of power (yes, even governmental).
"They" may be well educated and wealthy, but "they" are also bigots. If it's not offensive, why only "when not in a the presence of black people"? What are you all afraid of?
The "it's only a word" non-argument only makes sense if the words don't have meaning. Once they're stand-ins for concepts they're no longer "just words." Didn't you learn anything about semiotics in school?
Consider a drum, xylophone, small guitar
If we can set aside the fact that this is a cult leader who likes to play dress-up (hard, I agree), it might be that his statements have some merit. I mean, Twitter isn't actual communication, the people on Facebook aren't really friends, a half a dozen regularly read blogs do not comprise a realistic worldview, and so on. There's so much technical mediation of the real world nowadays that it's not like you have to look far to find someone who doesn't believe it's true unless his phone tells him about it. (Or, worse, who can't experience something without twittering it.)
Sometimes even insane people make valid points.
None of those languages have anything like the CPAN, despite saying for years "We should build something like the CPAN."
If this were the only true assertion you made (and it's not) it's reason enough to seriously consider Perl. I'd love to use Ruby more (it's a fun language, I like the OO, distributed and multithreaded programs are easy to write) but the libraries are lacking (as is easy library management).
Makes you figure there's a reason (La)TeX is still popular too, huh?
The issue must be an interesting one
http://www.tv.com/ally-mcbeal/these-are-the-days/episode/1000/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary
I have worked in company where 90% of people used Emacs. And literally nobody could customize it. They had ~120K init.el from somebody else, it got copied all over the company, everybody used and nobody had a clue what was in it.
I also knew real pro Emacs user who knew pretty much all shortcuts and modes of the Emacs. But he also hardly ever tried to configure it: he tried it in past, failed and learned to live with the defaults instead.
With respect, I'm not sure either of these issues are the fault of the software.
For instance, the default Apache httpd.conf reads:
# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
# what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure
# consult the online docs. You have been warned.
I suspect that a similar warning may have been missing from the init.el that was being passed around.
Of course, emacs-lisp doesn't look much like C (or a language whose syntax derived from C), so there's certainly some getting over the parenthesis and function-first syntax. After that hurdle (and a bit of understanding what a symbol is and how to quote a list), it's just a matter of looking up unfamiliar functions (online, with C-h f), isn't it?
Or the mythical sages of Emacs configuration left their caves once and enlightened us all.
I yet to see a single Emacs user who has written the
It's probably just me, but these statements seem contradictory.
Seriously, emacs users are actually a really helpful bunch, check out the emacs wiki for instance. Or consider the amount of effort that's gone into making the customization system (M-x customize) easy for both end users to use and emacs-lisp developers to incorporate into their extensions. Or the quality (and price!) of the Emacs manual, Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, or Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
Emacs users might be perceived as elitist or something, but the feeling I've always had is that it's a community that strives to be welcoming and not holier-than-thou.
If the Vatican had a PR department [...]
If?
I'm also quite certain Apple et. al are no better.
I'm not sure. Maybe it's all hogwash, but Apple appears to take the working conditions of its suppliers' employees pretty seriously. You can read about it here: http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/ .
No, nothing needs to be done.
The government has no business whatsoever dictating what restaurants can and cannot have (never mind must have) on their menus. If you can't eat something, don't eat it
Christ, what the hell happened to personal responsibility?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
