Gerald Jay Sussman on Flexible Systems, The Power of Generic Operations
1 0 comments 02 Sep 2017 21:36 u/yhsvghnrOruGnpverzN (..) in v/programmingComment on: Arrays start at one. Police edition.
This is the sort of content /v/programming wants? Fuck. I'm out.
Comment on: 'OK, everyone. Stop typing, this software is DONE,' said no one ever
Whoever wrote that headline has not played a video game in the last 5 years.
Comment on: Where should I ask for help with my naive ideas about cryptography?
I got to the edge of the swirling vortex of calculus and lost my cookies.
Comment on: Where should I ask for help with my naive ideas about cryptography?
I'm currently working out solutions which might fit within a few kilobytes. Thanks though.
Comment on: Where should I ask for help with my naive ideas about cryptography?
Right, a one-time-pad only works if you never reuse it.
Where should I ask for help with my naive ideas about cryptography?
2 1 comment 25 Jun 2017 06:32 u/yhsvghnrOruGnpverzN (self.programming) in v/programming"At my previous job I had to use MapBasic, an interpreter so astoundingly slow ..." (written in 2001)
1 0 comments 24 Jun 2017 15:47 u/yhsvghnrOruGnpverzN (..) in v/programmingComment on: What is the very first thing for an old fart like me to learn so I can dabble in programming?
Don't believe people who tell you you're using the wrong language. Programming languages are something people fight over now, like football and religion.
I recommend you download GNU Emacs and begin with Emacs Lisp. You can get a handle on the language in less than a day, and learn enough of its libraries to customize Emacs to your liking in under a week.
At that point you'll have a programmers text editor configured to your liking and you'll have a handle on fundamental programming concepts which apply to any language. You'll also have formed some opinions on Lisp, and whether you'd like to continue with it or switch to something else.
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