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People who use Parinfer rather than Paredit when learning Clojure really like it. The concept is available in the Clojure mode in all the usual suspects of IDEs (IntelliJ Cursive, …

The simplicity of the visual language that Scratch provides inherits from the simplicity of Lisp, via Logo. The Logo language (& the Mindstorms pedagogical philosophy), which is wh…

You seemed to have misunderstood what I was saying. I was pointing out that specifically in the case of chili spice, I don't think it's good for the body. There are data to support…

The thing about chili peppers is that they're not healthy (have medicinal benefits) in the way peppercorn and long pepper do. Capsaicin can be harmful in large quantities, IIUC. Th…

Ah, I see... :-T

To add to that and concur that Rich generally doesn't have such un-nuanced strong opinions without context, see his talk Effective Programs. He explains what Clojure is good for an…

I agree with the grandparent comment. The parent comment sounds like a random and non representative sampling of what makes Clojure unique. Both parent and grandparent correctly id…

Exactly. Wasn't Jobs proud to say, "Good artists copy, great artists steal"? Jobs made amazing things happen, but he also had a Reality Distortion Field with the best of them.

Indeed! https://elangocheran.com/2014/10/30/exploring-programming-in... https://youtu.be/MqjMZNwnYCY Although I started the above project around the same time as Ramsey started his…

Same here, can you let me know, too? I'm just an idle observer, more often interested in consuming the polished findings, but am utterly fascinated and impressed by the work requir…

Can you also comment on how the current decipherments are going? And how much progress has been made in the Dravido-Elamite angle? This book came out that republishes incomplete re…

Calling yourself a democracy doesn't excuse persistent, depraved, inhumane behavior like this: http://tamilguardian.com/content/sri-lankan-officers-involve...

It's quotes like this that deflect responsiblity: >“We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Fa…

As tempting as it is to believe this story's premise that Facebook is bullying?/neglecting? smaller countries and then fit that into the larger backlash against social media, I thi…

It was in order to get the CLJS REPL to feel more like the regular Clojure REPL: https://github.com/google/clojure-turtle/issues/15 The CLJS-macro story is still a little tricky --…

If you try the interactive examples on the main Readme page all the way to the end, you'll see there's a gradual, subtle shift from cutesy Logo to Clojure-style functional programm…

BASIC was my first programming language. Starting with the days of the Commodore 64, Apple IIe, and MS GWBASIC, but I never understood it well enough beyond a number guessing game …

If the parent is Canadian, then you're talking about the same thing, effectively.

Yep. Ruby springs to mind. The creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), is Japanese. He co-wrote the first Ruby book, which was in Japanese. And a year later, he co-wrote the first bo…

Weak analogy. Text and language aren't as intrinsic to playing music and reading/writing sheet music as they are to reading/writing source code.

Yep. That's how it's spelled officially. I also know of it as தமிழ், for which "Thamil" is a more accurate transliteration.

I don't deny that the network effects of speaking the same language matter. They do. But if you're turned off to programming because it's too hard (b/c the language barrier), you m…

I've had people ask me, "Why don't we get everyone to speak just one language? That would make everything easier." That ignores a lot about the cultural meanings embedded in langua…

Thanks! If you want to try Icelandic, all you need to do is create a map or two where the keys are the English names and the values are the corresponding Icelandic ones. Then call …