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twrensch

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About twrensch

I'm a programmer with a varied background. Three years writing RPGIII in a manufacturing company, 2 years of Lisp in an AI research group, 8 glorious years as a Smalltalk consultant, a brush with Java, Grad School, Teaching, back to industry and more Java and AI. A few books, a few companies (only one was really a startup - it failed). I've been busy.

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    Comment #1901636

    I spent five years teaching at the University level. The beginning of the end of my academic career was receiving an e-mail from a student explaining one of my (programming) assign…

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    Comment #1045522

    There's some information in the readme.html file included with the distribution, and a bit more in the manual. Work versions are aimed at the active lua community as a way to get f…

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    Comment #897937

    A fairly good summary, though I'm not certain someone who hasn't studied computability is going to get it. The "See Also" amichail posted is good.

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    Comment #656204

    I'm not happy with my mix yet, and spend too much time trying out new things. Here's what I'm currently using: PM: Google notebook, Google calendar, "Stickies app" (Tomboy) Finance…

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    Comment #466756

    Except for basic editing tasks they aren't really comparable. Pico (or it's clone nano) are basic text editors designed to be easy for beginners to learn and use. Emacs is a text e…