mknod: "nowadays of extremely limited usefulness" Interesting perspective. I use it almost daily. The syscall as well as the provided utility of same name.
I have to ask: what do you do that you need to create device nodes manually on a daily basis?
Why the name?
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#52parrot (common virtual machine for dynamic languages) named after an April Fool's hoax that came true: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm What a coincident. In 2015, Perl 6 (Parrot VM) and Python 3 have difficulties to transfer their community over from the former major releases Perl 5 and Python 2. Offtopic: We can learn from it. Like fixing a language early or never/only in small steps. Other examples: X…
J# definitely did not win. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp#Future_of_J.23
I meant Visual Basic 6 developers moved on to C# or web development, as porting VB6 code to VB.net was non trivial.
The MS Java to .Net/C# roadmap is off-topic and complicated (afaik: Sun Java -> MS Java (MSJVM) J++ -> J# & C#, C#). J# is dead as of 2015 (it was a transitional language to .Net/C#), but it cannot be denied MS got a VM based environment (CLR) and a Java-inspired language (C# v1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#... .
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#53Another great one is 'dd' which stands for 'Copy and Convert'. Oddly enough, cc was already taken.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searches for "Unix less" or "Linux less" are spot on. Even "less command line" will get you there easily. It's all about context. And of course there are always the man pages, which is usually the best place to start.
I personally find the man pages very dense and poorly organized. `man grep` for example is my own personal nightmare. I think the man pages should introduce a policy of simple usage examples instead of throwing 99% of information you don't care about at you at once. Something like http://bropages.org/
I've started using "bro", and really like it.
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#55We all know "GNU's Not Unix." But what does G stand for?
GNU is a recursive acronym
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#57What is the origin of the name Chicken Scheme?
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#58Another fun that appears elsewhere but really does deserve to be in this list: Debian is named after Debra and Ian Murdock (he's the founder of the project, she was his girlfriend).
I've always wondered how Debra feels about that today. (Especially given that so many things abbreviate Debian as "deb" or "Deb-".)
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#59Is is just me that get 403 Forbidden error?
Nope, I don't get what this is about, either. It's an error page that says
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#60What is the origin of the name Chicken Scheme?
One last question: What inspired the names CHICKEN and SPOCK? Do they mean anything, aside from the bird and the well-known Star Trek character?
That question always comes up, sooner or later. ;-)
I had a plastic toy of Feathers McGraw on my desk, the evil penguin (disguised as a chicken!) from the Wallace and Gromit movie, “The Wrong Trousers.” Looking for a preliminary working title for the compiler, I used the first thing that came to my mind that day. I’m somewhat superstitious about names for software projects, and things were progressing well, so I didn’t dare to change the name.
Also, there is the old philosophical question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? This applies to CHICKEN, too. The compiler is written in Scheme, so you need CHICKEN in order to compile CHICKEN.
http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/06/19/chicken-scheme-spock...