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Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:51AM (#14163578)
Feynman had read both books. He mentioned the prefatory quote from 'Calculus Made Easy' in an interview given to Omni Magazine in 1979:

"... I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can'..."

I have this in Chapter 9: 'The Smartest Man in the World' in Feynman's book 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'.

Re:India Asks Google, Facebook to Screen User Content on Monday December 05, 2011 @10:22AM (#3314907)
What is this? Watch your speech, because Big Sib has installed the Netpolice; that which does not ingratiate itself to the fancies of the power-mongers shall be expunged.

No service provider should bear, or provide any means to further, this idiocy.

Re:How does one get off Haskell? on Friday June 18, 2010 @08:41AM (#1441999)
Couldn't you have made Perl write the proprietary language programs for you?
Re:Great programming and CS books you've never heard of on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:16PM (#1396926)
The 7th, CTM, is a successor to SICP. It is a classic of modern times.

I've heard of the third one, Concrete Mathematics.

I vaguely remember reading of the 4th, HOPL 2, and the 5th, Computer Organisation and Design. As far as I recall, they are good actually.

Re:Lisp is Poetry and Most Programmers Want Prose (2006) on Monday May 31, 2010 @02:16PM (#1393106)
Agreed with your last point. I have read about people who loved Lisp so much, that they wrote Lisp to write programs in other languages for them. Two cases: * http://www.merl.com/papers/TR93-17/ (Lisp to Pascal) * Erik Naggum told of his dissatisfaction with C++, and wrote Lisp to do his job for him.

Well, the first is more of a demo, actually.

Re:GCC starts move towards implementation in C++ on Monday May 31, 2010 @02:00PM (#1393075)
"Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages." - From the GNU manifesto

Maybe just implement GCC in Lisp? Or am I just nitpicking?

Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use? on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @04:28AM (#1376840)
What if his files end with ".hs"?
Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use? on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @04:26AM (#1376836)
Emacs be an organism. It be runnin' all the while. On the other hand, I'll admit to using vi from eshell.
Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use? on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @04:23AM (#1376832)
Madness? This is VIM!
Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use? on Monday May 24, 2010 @11:56PM (#1376436)
Ye can gain mine Emacs when ye wrest it from mine chill, mortified fingers.
Re:Ask HN: Recommend first programming language to master (options inc... on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @04:07PM (#1181984)
Acknowledged and appreciated. Thanks to both posters.
Re:Ask HN: Recommend first programming language to master (options inc... on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @03:43PM (#1181916)
So, ends first, means second?

Ask HN: Recommend first programming language to master (options included)

Posted by madrik on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @03:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have coded a game in Scheme, improved it in Common Lisp, ported it to Emacs Lisp, almost got it working in Perl. I barely know C, have seen Haskell (got swamped by types), understand the essential ideology behind Smalltalk, created two more small games in Forth, and don't like C++, Java, Ruby, and Python for various reasons. I also have added 5 to 10 in 6502 assembly.My problem is that I...

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Re:12 Reasons to Learn and Use the vi Editor on Monday March 08, 2010 @04:05PM (#1176429)
The first eleven points are fairly regularly touted as the strong points of vi. I'm specifically interested in the twelfth point that states:

"Writing with vi is as close as you will ever come to writing in your own handwriting and still working on a computer."

Your thoughts?