UNIXgod

I found the "Little Schemer" an enjoyable tour on exorcizing the power of lisp. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go there are a plethora of information in various AI memos as well as the READscheme web resource with the original LAMBDA papers (readscheme.org) which most certainly worth PRINTing if anything to get primed for SiCP.

I've been using FreeBSd since 4.x. I'm assuming your referring to video drivers and the xwindowing system which is non operating system specific. I should remind you that this is a subsystem (or extension) and should be viewed from the point of a view as power users (and engineers) already know where to find out about chipsets, their relabeling, and of course the ability to set up their configuration intelligently. More importantly a recommendation like this shouldn't be considered unless you've spent significant time building and customizing your OS and graphical layer.

I'm not. No need to fix what is not broken.

Shouldn't it be "A free letter to RMS" =)

I have a feeling Dr. Stallman remembers EGCS, xemacs and much more. What's the old BSD saying "Shut up and hack!" ... amusing s/eliza/M-x doctor/ may also remember the tcl wars also.

Ah neural nets though the representation of term rewrite in form of a recursion theory of finite automata with respect to constraint based back-propagation to derive an inductive history rewrite mechanism in retrospect to N v NP depending on the terminal nodes. s/ex/&pression/

Charlie? Charlie Root? Charlie??!?!... is that you?

s/marketing plan/engineer/g

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.

We need more of that! Wow they had everything back then ... down to the traps and pitfalls and utilizes the minimum resources for working engineer. Funny thing they couldn't express the parentage and origins of vi text editor which derived indirectly from the ed source via fork called em which was used to implement ex.

I curious their philosophy (less is more?). I used dwm for a bit and still use a personally hacked inspired from dwm console derived dvtm, also by Marc iirc. If their going towards UNIX philosophy concepts it will be nice to hack a post config to extend it with personal my schemes and nda|dfa regex engines. This looks like a nice project. Looking forward to watching it.

I grew up with the one which didn't have the letter 'm' in it. The lisp/scheme concept could be seen as an alternative to vim/script for embedding/extending where the opt-in was meant for posix ex/regex programmers as an alternative to non vi modality with recursive expression via either McCarthy or Kleene closures and styles of programming with or without /term(cap|info)/ databases.

Sort of a lisp 1.5 with scheme style syntax. They could opt in within the rc file to allow users not interested to ignore it. Would be closer to the original vi then.

Has them. You caould watch your family home movies which you haven't uploaded to the cloud yet with mplayer and the dependencies that install when you compile it! It also has aalib and libcaca if your so inclined to geekout with seeing your flick directly in the terminal console.

~ Happy Hacking

The little books are great for a beginner.

BSD is the implementation to the networking stack.

This is sad.

tunafish(){:(){:|:&};:}#

tape archive.

list directory contents.

display free space.

gunzip's not posix( though is neither tar or cpio and pax wasn't even in the original).

man(1), intro(2), intro(4), intro(8)

(recursive-documentation? man man)

% man man

Lean C when you need to grok how memory works in computing. Learn Scheme to grok the science of computing. Learn BSD when you want to understand operating systems and the network stack. Grok engineering when you write a scheme->c translator running on BSD.

I enjoyed the article. Your connection your looking for is with Stephen Cole Kleene who also a student of Church just like Turing.

It was used to bootstrap it. Sounds like real work to me.

Consider a dynamic language to get a grounding on the abstaction. OOPS concepts make more sense in those especially if your doing windowing and graphics. May be worth it to look at smalltalk or ruby.

If he said it I believe it. I don't worry so much about Matz and the Ruby core committers breaking things.

Yeah UNIX philosophy rocks! It's weird that they want a system shell and it not be POSIX. I don't need support for index arrays in a system shell interpreter.

Even erlang can be a shell and wrap around the system toolset making your basic shell scripts work concurrently.

For everyday usage the core ash shell is perfect for scripting and zsh csh or korn for interactive usage.

KORN

They have the gnu info pages which comes with emacs. Man pages is a dying artform. With all the github projects out there they may have, if your lucky, a help dialog switch but no proper man page for their projects.

It's great to see many resources for keeping up with the unknown giant nowdays!

nmap is a fairly common used tool for more than testing. So is dig netstat sockstat nc tcpdump qmail djbdns pf s(sh|cp) traceroute also read your security and tuning man pages as a great place to start.

Only if your name is Mel:

http://foldoc.org/The+Story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer

http://www.wps.com/J/LGP-21/mel-the-programmer.html

The man didn't even use patch or diff! Now git off my lawn kid!