koytch

Might try OpenRC just as well. I've always liked the NetBSD rcorder-based startup, and OpenRC reminds me of it in some ways. But to be fair, I'm not in a hurry to replace sysv-rc.

So a tinkering person who has in the past used Slackware (at the end it looked like a bastardized Linux From Scratch), *BSD and after much meandering settled on a minimal Debian desktop, but still uses Mint at work, should probably feel at home, you say?

Along similar lines: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

Some of the PDFs also happen to be valid images, audio files, zip archives, etc.

It's ugly, simple and flexible. I can live with its ugliness (I don't change my crontab every day, after all) and simplicity and flexibility beat ini format/UX/etc. any time AFAIC.

Mise en abyme is tail-call optimised.

Mise en abyme is the new meta.

Apparently Watson believes Mr Schank has 'mixed' feelings towards it and IBM. Go to http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage, feed it the article link and see what happens :)