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I'm not who you replied to, but no, no, I don't think that's an "opposition" to writing in the sense that it's making us stupid or replacing oral traditions. From my limited unders…

A FLAC encoder/decoder written in Guile scheme. I struggled to get the decoder working with most test files for a while until recently. It's more or less a fully functional decoder…

Relax, it's just a play on https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byza... The code is a mouse wheel scroll down.

Yes, that is very much what they were. However, they used the term compiler in very much the same way it's used today. It didn't mean something different. The concept of the "compi…

That is absolutely not true. Just because early compilers acted more like linker/loader doesn't mean they used the word compiler to mean "linker". When the term was coined it absol…

> Use a good text parsing library. Regexes are probably not enough for your use case. In case you are not aware of the limitations of regexes you may want to learn about Chomsky hi…

How is it not a matter of familiarity? Just because it's not intuitive to you doesn't mean it's bad. I find anything not in an S-expression to be atrocious. Doesn't mean I can't le…

I don't agree at all. I don't find it less "readable". You just have to be used to it. If you understand English, German isn't that hard of a language to learn. Japanese would prob…

Sure, but bash only has certain language constructs. This implementation is using parameter expansion and some other built ins. It's definitely more complex than yours, but that's …

Yes, but I think that's antithetical to what languages like bash and perl are trying to do. Someone well versed in the language can do some pretty complex operations in a few keyst…

I'm in no way defending bash as a language. There are lots of gotchas and weird constructs. I avoid bash too. It's just that trim function isn't that cryptic or "unreadable" if you…

Just because you seem to be unfamiliar with bash doesn’t mean it’s unreadable. Almost any language will look cryptic if you don’t know it. That function is mostly just parameter ex…

It is implemented in Guile. The language is just syntactic sugar via macros and utilizes WISP. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gwl.git/tree/gwl/sugar.scm https://srfi.schemers.or…

If you aren't trying to be Unix I would imagine you aren't thinking that. GNU probably doesn't subscribe to that notion.

I'm pretty curious on how you conclude that GNU is "intentionally obfuscating code" from [1]. I read [1] as good advice to avoid inadvertently getting code into GNU that could be c…

I don't think it has Nvidia drivers, but there is work being done for Guix and HPC. https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/

It's definitely not trivial to do. I have the Guix system installed on my mid 2013 MBP. I installed the mainline Linux kernel and drivers along with the proprietary Broadcom wirele…

The official Guix channels do not package proprietary software. However, nothing is stopping someone from doing it.

> By definition, if you're programming Emacs Lisp, you're an Emacs user. Emacs is the interpreter. That's not necessarily true. Guile supports Elisp as a language. You can write El…

Here is a gist of the relevant packages and configs I have for my MBP. https://gist.github.com/steve-ayerhart/81c9dfc773472e08002cd...

I don't have access to it now. When I do I can put the package definitions and OS config up somewhere. When you first boot GuixSD most of the core stuff should work fine. Wireless …

None that I know of currently. The OS is version 0.15.0. It's very young and doesn't have a huge user base. I'm sure there will be non gnu repositories that will eventually spring …

Not true. You can write your own packages in the same high level interface. Including the mainline Linux kernel and broadcom drivers. I have GuixSd running on my 2013 MBP