Fun Arg Problem?!
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 16:11 O.Hamann <o.ham...@gmx.net> wrote: > Welcome Mia! > > I followed the steps of your install pil21 on win10/WSL blog post - and > it worked fine, thanks for putting all (WSL+Linux+pil21) together in one > recipe. > > (I only had to do a 'sudo apt update' before Ubuntu did install the llvm) > > > > Reading over your nice list of planned topics, 'Segmentation Fault' and > 'Dynamic Binding' come to my mind. > > An application / commandline tool quitting with segfault is so very > uncommon nowadays, that new friends of picolisp might think more of a > 'faulty program' than conscious design decisions of the picolisp author. > > Writing the first experimental code lines in a file on disk and > loading it with 'pil mycode.l +' helped me a lot to lower my frustration > about having typed in 10 lines of code in the REPL which were all wiped > out by my false function calls in the beginning. > > > > > 'Dynamic Binding' is rarely used today, I guess, and might lead to > trouble for experienced programmers, who come from other languages, > which follow the 'lexical binding' paradigm(?). > > There was a PilCon talk on this and I tried to find a simple rule, > how to avoid problems or how to recognize in advance if problems would > occur, but I do not have that present. Perhaps we could raise this > topic in the mailing list again one day. > > So this could be an entry with question mark (I'm not really sure how > relevant this topic is) in your nice content list. > > > Keep on writing :-) > > Kind Regards, > Olaf > > > > > > > On 01.09.21 11:57, Mia Burger wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm Mia, one of Alex' daughters, nice to meet you! > > > > I started to play around with PicoLisp a few months ago. So I checked > > the available resources, and after a while I thought it might be good to > > have a little bit more "beginner's level" content, with a low threshold > > and fun to read. Because I feel that a lot of it is already quite > > advanced (or of rather mixed difficulty), which can be quite frustrating
