Good Evening JB-Ima Afrotrap,
IF you know what direction you want to go in, it would be fairly simple.
Buy a book or primer..
I started in the BASIC language, but its a dead language now.
Although it gave me a starting point 40 years ago, when there was only
scientific languages that were totally out of my league or comprehension
and barely remembered now. Its like Latin, very few people know it or
can speak it.
I'm sure many on this list would have a better suggestion of where to
start, if they know where you want to go.
Take Care.
Scooter
College Park, MD USA
Ima Afrotrap wrote on 5/27/2012 6:48 PM:
On Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:40 Dwayne Henderson wrote:
Emacs excels at things like bidirectional communications with co-operating
processes, which is good for embedding things in (or marrying things to)
the editor, like a shell, a REPL or a debugger. You need any of that,
Afrotrap?
Vim has a better text editing interface - period. As for Vi - we all know
it sucks - but this never was about Vi.
--Dwayne
I've always had trouble egtting past a certain part(?) of some things. For
instance, I aced math all the way through geometry and then 15 years later while
trying to go to community college I did it again until I got to calculus and
physics...it was like being in a nice '65 GTO doing about 120 mph and suddenly a
10 foot thick block wall pops up in front of you with no braking room. I stuck
with the courses for another week but it did no good as I just kept getting
farther and farther lost.
I've tried to learn (online and with books, can't afford school anymore since
I live on a disability check) programming in C++ for Linux, Python and Ruby. I'd
give my right cod to learn to program and especially to try it with a machine
language because I'm so sick and tired of the bloat languages are causing
anymore, but again I get lost pretty quickly and frustrated.
It's similar with other things but I never know what particular
subject/job/whatever-I-should-call-it it will happen with until I start at it. I
also have a kinda messed up memory, so, when I did take a curious look at Vi and
emacs a few years ago, it took all of about an hour +/- on each just piddling
around to know I would be lost using them.
So, I mainly stick with gui stuff and once in a while ask how to get a little
thing done. Oh well....life in the woods, heh.
JB
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