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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Archibald <aarchiba@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
Andrew> ISTR bash can be made to do that with an appropriate
Andrew> setting.
I didn't know that. The globbing would be good to have... I guess
that ought to go straight into glibc. :-)
Andrew> zsh is my shell on a couple machines but I haven't
Andrew> *really* used it (you know how it is with Un*x). It would
Andrew> be nice if the code from zsh was modular enough that we
Andrew> could plunder it for guile. Is it?
Dunno. I've got it `dpkg-source -x' unpacked, but haven't looked at
it yet. There's so many other things more important right now, things
that I really need to do in order to be able to even understand much
of zsh, readline, glibc, and guile.
I've just obtained a copy of "Essentials of Programming Languages",
by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes. It's
very interesting so far; I've just begun working the excercises in
Chapter 2, where it discusses recursion, induction, and scope. This
book will certianly help me understand Guile and Schem48... When I
finish it, I'll read "Lisp in Small Peices", by Christian Queinnec,
the author of the `meroon' scheme object system. After that, I think
I'll try and learn how a scheme compiler works. I also need to do
more work with "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", by
Harold Ableson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman. I put it back
on the shelf when I started studying from "Scheme and the Art of
Programming", by George Springer and Daniel
P. Friedman.
What do the other folks in this mailing list do and study? What do
yous use guile for? What do you program with it? I'm very curious.
Will I be able to land a job someday for knowing a lot about this
stuff? Doing what?
>> Footnotes: [1] You Tell Me And We'll Both Know
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