read at /.
The following comment on lisp from /. attracted my interest.
An ideal world would run on LISP...
It's amazing and somwhat sad that programming languages and runtime environments from Smalltalk to Java to Python to C#/.NET keep reinventing the wheel while a language from the 1950s has it all and does it even better - the most elegant syntax thinkable, powerful paradigms for code reuse, dynamic typing, modern memory management with no buffer overflows, and, with Common Lisp, one robust, industrial-strength language with a rich standard library that can both interpreted and compile code, obsoleting the difference between "programming" and "scripting" languages...
It was discussion on Practical Common Lisp book.
An ideal world would run on LISP...
It's amazing and somwhat sad that programming languages and runtime environments from Smalltalk to Java to Python to C#/.NET keep reinventing the wheel while a language from the 1950s has it all and does it even better - the most elegant syntax thinkable, powerful paradigms for code reuse, dynamic typing, modern memory management with no buffer overflows, and, with Common Lisp, one robust, industrial-strength language with a rich standard library that can both interpreted and compile code, obsoleting the difference between "programming" and "scripting" languages...
It was discussion on Practical Common Lisp book.
Quote of the day
not wanting to solve a problem is a pretty lousy problem-solving strategy, really.
~Fredrik Lundh . I was at the receiving end of this quote at comp.lang.python.
~Fredrik Lundh . I was at the receiving end of this quote at comp.lang.python.
Article on Maths
jwz posted an entry on Maths for Programmers. That article is a very insightful. It analyzes how maths can be useful to any programmer at any time. We have all lost touch of basic mathematics and need to gear up. His suggestion is Maths should be learned breadth-first and not depth-first, as knowing different mathematical solutions we come to know about which section the problem belongs to and we might approach it correct. Another suggestion for all of us is to start with any math section at wikipedia and follow it till we understand it and do it daily.
Anyway, that article is a good read.
Anyway, that article is a good read.
cvs co problem with Fedora Core 4
When I was trying checkout a module using cvs on Fedora Core 4, using the ext method.
It was taking a long time and tried with
And connection was timing out.
This was strange, Fedora was trying with login with RSH instead of SSH. I remember it used work without doing any modifications, later remembered it was RHEL3 and not FC4.
With FC4, you will have to set the CVS_RSH=ssh explicity
In the .bash_profile
Now it should work. Thanks to this post.
cvs -d:ext:user_name@hostname:/repository co module
It was taking a long time and tried with
Trying krb4 rsh...
And connection was timing out.
This was strange, Fedora was trying with login with RSH instead of SSH. I remember it used work without doing any modifications, later remembered it was RHEL3 and not FC4.
With FC4, you will have to set the CVS_RSH=ssh explicity
In the .bash_profile
CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVS_RSH
Now it should work. Thanks to this post.
ReactOS
Freesoft Windows based Operating System.Well, thats React OS for you. I tried the live-CD of React OS today and I am coompletely amazed by it. React OS is celebrating its 10 years of development. Have a look at site, find the mention of binary compatiblity of the drivers and applications of Windows operating systems.Got to remember that React OS is not Production Stable yet, but still it is very nice work.
Be bold in editing...
Wikipedia suggests a editing guideline,i.e
"Be bold in updating pages". I guess, that should one guiding principle to follow if we have to become an active person in any community. The second point ofcourse states 'don't be reckless.
Whitespace programming language
Stumbled upon this this link of Whitespace programming language. Its really funny!.
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