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[?]Craig Brozefsky » 🌐
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@thegnuguy It's alot of fun. I suggest SICP and The Lilttle Schemer as good stating points for advancing your knowledge, specifically around first-order functions, and building common programming abstractions out of functions.

There is another branch of "functional" programming, which is purely functional data structures. Also known as immutable data structures. I think is perhaps the cleanest expression this that is adjacent to .

Experiencing the wins you get from performant immutable data structures, combined with structuring your programs using functions, and using functions as first-order values, and then learning how to apply those in more modern distributed system contexts, is eye-opening, and will change the way you think about, and build software.

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    [?]technicat » 🌐
    @technicat@universeodon.com

    just noticed the new website design for Gauche

    practical-scheme.net/gauche/

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      [?]technicat » 🌐
      @technicat@universeodon.com

      abandoned my frankenstein deno-github-fedify resume site and starting fresh with just a script generating basic HTML from JSON

      philipchu.com

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        [?]technicat » 🌐
        @technicat@universeodon.com

        playing around with generating html in gauche

        practical-scheme.net/gauche/ma

          [?]masukomi » 🌐
          @masukomi@connectified.com

          Why is it that I can't remember 90% of my life, but I can remember that the spec for Wisp (indentation sensitive scheme) is SRFI-119 and SRFI-69 is for Hash tables?

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            [?]masukomi » 🌐
            @masukomi@connectified.com

            Thinking languagey thoughts, and was reminded of , the language they wrote for the but didn't get ready in time & never ended up using.

            It's derived from and but it has a built-in object system derived from CLOS, and *looks* a lot like Ruby‡

            I really wish they had shipped it. I feel like it died before it ever got a chance to live.

            opendylan.org/

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            ‡ this was long before Rails was released and made Ruby popular.

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              [?]Anthony » 🌐
              @abucci@buc.ci

              A weird thing about being 50 is that there are programming languages that I've used regularly for longer than some of the software developers I work with have been alive. I first wrote BASIC code in the 1980s. The first time I wrote an expression evaluator--a fairly standard programming puzzle or homework--was in 1990. I wrote it in Pascal for an undergraduate homework assignment. I first wrote perl in the early 1990s, when it was still perl 4.036 (5.38.2 now). I first wrote java in 1995-ish, when it was still java 1.0 (1.21 now). I first wrote scala, which I still use for most things today, in 2013-ish, when it was still scala 2.8 (3.4.0 now). At various times I've been "fluent" in 8086 assembly, BASIC, C, Pascal, perl, python, java, scala; and passable in LISP/Scheme, Prolog, old school Mathematica, (early days) Objective C, matlab/octave, and R. I've written a few lines of Fortran and more than a few lines of COBOL that I ran in a production system once. I could probably write a bit of Haskell if pressed but for some reason I really dislike its syntax so I've never been enthusiastic about learning it well. I've experimented with Clean, Flix, Curry, Unison, Factor, and Joy and learned bits and pieces of each of those. I'm trying to decide whether I should try learning Idris, Agda, and/or Lean. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few languages. Bit of 6502 assembly long ago. Bit of Unix/Linux shell scripting languages (old enough to have lived and breathed tcsh before switching to bash; I use fish now mostly).

              When I say passable: in graduate school I wrote a Prolog interpreter in java (including parsing source code or REPL input), within which I could run the classic examples like append or (very simple) symbolic differentiation/integration. As an undergraduate I wrote a Mathematica program to solve the word recognition problem for context-free formal languages. But I'd need some study time to be able to write these languages again.

              I don't know what the hell prompted me to reminisce about programming languages. I hope it doesn't come off as a humblebrag but rather like old guy spinning yarns. I think I've been through so many because I'm never quite happy with any one of them and because I've had a varied career that started when I was pretty young.

              I guess I'm also half hoping to find people on here who have similar interests so I'm going to riddle this post with hashtags:


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