From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] OT BitKeeper: Creating a remote SSH repo
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:24:00 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004151403030.1535@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200415003410.GD16034@mcvoy.com>
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
> You and I would get along great. I *hate* tcl, love tk. I hate tcl so
> much that I paid some guys to create a C-like language that compiles
> down to tcl byte codes. It is quite pleasant IMHO, has some perl stuff
> too.
Woo-hoo! I hate TCL but love Perl/Tk and am using it for a simple Gooey
front-end for some scripts that I have. I mean, about a page to write a
simple "Hello, world" in X11? That BTW is my benchmark for any language;
not only does it demonstrate its complexity but also its fundamental
structure, and I'm very much a learn-by-example person (it's something
weird in my brain that I can pick up a new language just by seeing a few
examples of it).
Number of programming languages I've used over 50 years:
aneurin% wc -l ~/languages
48 /home/dave/languages
And that's counting all assembly languages as one, etc; 360, PDP-8,
PDP-11, Z-80, VAX, 2650, Intel... Currently looking at ARM for something
or other. I collect programming languages like some people collect
stamps.
I was also pretty good at French in school :-)
-- Dave
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2020-04-14 10:12 ama
2020-04-14 14:33 ` lm
2020-04-14 21:27 ` ama
2020-04-14 21:46 ` lm
2020-04-14 23:51 ` dave
2020-04-14 23:55 ` lm
2020-04-15 0:18 ` lm
2020-04-15 0:30 ` athornton
2020-04-15 0:34 ` lm
2020-04-15 4:24 ` dave [this message]
2020-04-15 0:53 ` ama
2020-04-15 1:05 ` lm
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