On Tue 15 Nov 2022 at 16:37:58 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/15/22 00:22, DdB wrote:
> > Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen:
> > > I installed the localepurge package. Storage usage did not change. Then
> > > I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during
On 11/15/22 00:22, DdB wrote:
Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen:
I installed the localepurge package. Storage usage did not change. Then
I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during installation, so
perhaps there is nothing to be removed (?). So, I removed the
localepurge
Am 15.11.2022 um 05:21 schrieb David Christensen:
> I installed the localepurge package. Storage usage did not change. Then
> I realized that I had chosen the "C" locale during installation, so
> perhaps there is nothing to be removed (?). So, I removed the
> localepurge package.
>
>
> David
On 11/13/22 23:15, DdB wrote:
Am 14.11.2022 um 07:16 schrieb Anssi Saari:
Charles Curley writes:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100
DdB wrote:
every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
You
Am 14.11.2022 um 07:16 schrieb Anssi Saari:
> Charles Curley writes:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100
>> DdB wrote:
>>
>>> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
>>> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
>>
>> You might take
Charles Curley writes:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100
> DdB wrote:
>
>> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
>> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
>
> You might take a look at the localepurge package.
As I'm a little
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 04:32:51PM +0100, DdB wrote:
> Would anyone be willing to take a look at what i have been doing and
> guide me to a resolution of the missing parts?
>
> My current (bash) script can be found here:
> https://paste.debian.net/1260563/
There is an existing package
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100
DdB wrote:
> every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
> them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
You might take a look at the localepurge package.
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Hello,
every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw
them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those.
What a surprise: doing it in my (rather simplistic) fashion, i got rid
of almost 1,5 GB from every buster machine, i had ... only to find, that
they
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 04:48:19PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01):
> > > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your
> > > machine?
> > And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if
> > it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it
Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01):
> > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your
> > machine?
> And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if
> it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set.
I checked that mousepad and jedit, the
* 2022-11-01 16:27:25+0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your
> machine?
And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if
it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set.
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:19:41PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> emacs?
It shows the é perfectly well, yes (besides, Emacs is the best
editor out there, anyway). But, TBH, even vim can do.
To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on
your machine?
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On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 8:54 AM, jindam, vani
wrote:
> i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles.
> for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage.
I just tried that paste in LibreOffice, and it
emacs?
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jindam, vani (12022-11-01):
> i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles.
> for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage.
> i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui
> text editor which displays correctly pasted text
> with different languages? i am on de
i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles.
for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage.
i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui
text editor which displays correctly pasted text
with different languages? i am on debian bullseye.
regards,
jindam, vani
toots: @jindam_v.
I probably shouldn't prolong this thread but...
Maybe this cartoon will help:
https://blog.toggl.com/save-princess-8-programming-languages/
More seriously, I was recently asked which languages to learn and I
wrote up a list of what I thought was important. See below.
On 18/10/2019 03:33
Dan Ritter wrote:
> deloptes wrote:
>> SQL, Python, PERL, C/C++, JAVA. I wonder why I did not see PHP ... but
>> well.
>
> For about a decade, PHP was the province of people who copied
> scripts from Matt's Script Archive and didn't know what security
> holes they were creating.
>
> Sometime in
deloptes wrote:
> SQL, Python, PERL, C/C++, JAVA. I wonder why I did not see PHP ... but well.
For about a decade, PHP was the province of people who copied
scripts from Matt's Script Archive and didn't know what security
holes they were creating.
Sometime in the last five years or so, the PHP
John Hasler wrote:
> Joe writes:
> > Spend an hour or two with the job advertisements (which is what the OP
> > needs to do) to see the enormous range of what employers *think* they
> > want, and this is what the young ladies in HR will definitely require
> > of an applicant.
>
> Especially
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 09:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> deloptes writes:
> > SQL comes everywhere handy...
>
> SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language
> (likewise HTML).
About 20 years ago I wrote and tested a match-merge update program with
(as I remember) the
On 2019-10-19 08:11, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Have a nice day :)
cheers
mick
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On Saturday 19 October 2019 08:38:15 John Hasler wrote:
> Joe quotes:
> > "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully
> > understand your application."
>
> Right. There isn't anything you can't do with bignum.
>
> I wrote software for control systems using cpus such as the RCA
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:34:06 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > And it's not so much fundamental languages as the buzzwords, the
> > frameworks, 'agile' programming, AJAX, and things like proprietary
> > CMS (C for both content and customer) systems. Nobody
C++, Python, or some other
> newer language.
There are highly optimized and thoroughly debugged scientific and
engineering libraries written decades ago in FORTRAN. These are often
used in programs written in much newer languages. It's hard to justify
porting them because they work so well
400)
> >
> > RPG/400 (both OPM and ILE)
> >
> > CL (on AS/400s; it's like a shell script, only compiled).
> >
> > Java
> >
> > I've forgotten just about all the SmallTalk I ever learned.
> >
> > I can get by in SQL.
> >
&
deloptes writes:
> SQL comes everywhere handy...
SQL is certainly handy, but I don't consider it a programming language
(likewise HTML).
If you *do* consider HTML a programming language the crawling horrors
that most Web sites send out make the worst BASIC spaghetti balls look
like something out
On 10/19/2019 08:26 AM, deloptes wrote:
[SNIP]
SQL comes
everywhere handy, because you have to store the data somewhere - but still
there is difference between Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB or sqlite. Each one has
its advantages and disadvantages - and SQL for the one is likely not
compatible with SQL
Joe wrote:
> And it's not so much fundamental languages as the buzzwords, the
> frameworks, 'agile' programming, AJAX, and things like proprietary CMS
> (C for both content and customer) systems. Nobody ever asks for basic
> programming skills.
You are sooo right, but one mus
binary languages. SQL comes
everywhere handy, because you have to store the data somewhere - but still
there is difference between Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB or sqlite. Each one has
its advantages and disadvantages - and SQL for the one is likely not
compatible with SQL for the other, though SQL i
Joe quotes:
> "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully
> understand your application."
Right. There isn't anything you can't do with bignum.
I wrote software for control systems using cpus such as the RCA 1802.
You can do a lot more with 8 bit integers than seems possible
Joe writes:
> Spend an hour or two with the job advertisements (which is what the OP
> needs to do) to see the enormous range of what employers *think* they
> want, and this is what the young ladies in HR will definitely require
> of an applicant.
Especially amusing are the ads that demand five
Hi,
Joe wrote:
> "If you think you need to use floating point, you don't fully
> understand your application."
+0.9
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:09:06 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> > > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s,
>
> Joe wrote:
> > Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings?
>
> 212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for
> problems which you can solve
Hi,
John Hasler wrote:
> > FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s,
Joe wrote:
> Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings?
212H Of course you don't do string processing in FORTRAN. It's for problems
which you can solve by representing everything as homogeneous coordinates
and then computing the result
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:34:57 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> I guess some people who started with BASIC do eventually recover.
>
And then you say:
> FORTRAN on 1620s and 370s,
Seriously? BASIC worse than Hollerith strings? It was 45 years ago, but
I still remember...
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:50:29 +0100
Brian wrote:
>
> > Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
>
> Nobody has answered the question yet.
>
Because there isn't an answer.
Spend an hour or two with the job advertisements (which is what the OP
n
> Turritopsis Dohrnii
>
> Jellyfish. Hard to grasp.
>
> > How long will it take
>
> Where's that piece of string?
>
> > Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
>
> Nobody has answered the question yet.
It was in the survey - this whole thread was teaser to go and read the
survey.
sest you are allowed to get to a true assembler language
> on an AS/400)
>
> RPG/400 (both OPM and ILE)
>
> CL (on AS/400s; it's like a shell script, only compiled).
>
> Java
>
> I've forgotten just about all the SmallTalk I ever learned.
>
> I can get by in
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Never did much Perl, but I think anything (well, not sure about obfuscated
> C) is more readable than APL.
I am not sure if it makes sense to compare a modern car engine with one
constructed 150y ago.
ot;overloading or inheritance. Encapsulation and aggregation"
> mean in programming context
Object orientation is a design pattern for programming. Invented already
in the 1950s, it long time carved a miserable existence in
let-the-machine-burst languages like Simula or Smalltalk. In th
On 18/10/2019 15:33, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
This is just a quick survey. May I know what programming languages do
you know? I am considering being a programmer or developer.
How long will it take for me to master a programming language like
C++, Java, and Python?
Mastery
On Friday, October 18, 2019 06:33:19 PM Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> Perl is a whole lot more readable than APL.
Never did much Perl, but I think anything (well, not sure about obfuscated C)
is more readable than APL.
nly compiled).
Java
I've forgotten just about all the SmallTalk I ever learned.
I can get by in SQL.
The more programming languages you know, the easier it is to pick up
additional programming languages. And the less likely you are to treat
your favorite language (or the only one you k
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, at 23:34, John Hasler wrote:
> I guess some people who started with BASIC do eventually recover.
It's not all that bad.
At my first place of employment, we ran WATERLOO BASIC (from the
University of Waterloo) for students to learn how to program.
This was on an IBM
Thomas writes:
> The only right way is to work down from a BASIC on ROM, which is said
> to have in part been coded by William Henry Gates III himself, to a
> self-made assembler, and then back to Rocky Mountain BASIC on HP
> desktops. Finally you move to a Unix workstation (16 MHz and 4 MB of
>
This discussion is spammed across a whole bunch of linux dstro mail lists.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, at 19:56, ghe wrote:
> Pascal teaches you to think good thoughts. It's was a wonderful language
> to learn back in the late 1970s.
Yes, or Algol...
> Perl's mantra is "There's more than one way to
On Fri 18 Oct 2019 at 23:22:37 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > [...] and I learned to use BASIC.
>
> And ? Any recognizable damage left ? :o)
>
> > (This was in the days when we had
> > an acoustic modem and a Teletype machine, and the mainframe was
> > 1500 miles
On Fri 18 Oct 2019 at 13:26:03 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
>
> On 10/18/2019 09:31 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> > > Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
> > >
> > > This is just a
On 2019-10-18 22:22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
But with a text editor i write a description in form of C structures
and function stubs, which i fill by remarks to roughly describe what
to have or to do where and when. Already during this design stage i use
as much compilable C code as possible to
Hi,
Doug McGarrett wrote:
> [...] and I learned to use BASIC.
And ? Any recognizable damage left ? :o)
> (This was in the days when we had
> an acoustic modem and a Teletype machine, and the mainframe was
> 1500 miles away!)
I had a color tv and a VIC-20 on the couch table.
> Later, I
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:26:03 -0400
Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On 10/18/2019 09:31 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> >> Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
> >>
> >> This is just a quick survey. M
On 10/18/19 11:44 AM, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 18/10/2019 19.26, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I'm not sure if any Pascal compilers are still available, but
>> Turbo was the most popular back when. Until the last version
>> came out, and it was too complicated for its own good.
>
> Forgive
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:26:03
> From: Doug McGarrett
> To: Dan Ritter ,
> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
> Resent-D
On 18/10/2019 19.26, Doug McGarrett wrote:
...
> I'm not sure if any Pascal compilers are still available, but
> Turbo was the most popular back when. Until the last version
> came out, and it was too complicated for its own good.
Forgive me for barging in, but I just had to answer that.
Sure
On 10/18/2019 09:31 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
This is just a quick survey. May I know what programming languages do
you know? I am considering being a programmer or developer.
How long
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
>
> This is just a quick survey. May I know what programming languages do
> you know? I am considering being a programmer or developer.
> How long will it take for me to maste
Subject: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
Good day from Singapore,
Article: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want
Author: Nick Kolakowski
Date Published: 14 October 2019
Link:
https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/14/7-programming-languages-employers-want
David Christensen writes:
> On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> hi,
>> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
>> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
>> Is there a way to get rid of them?
>
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, David Christensen wrote:
On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
hi,
when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
Is there a way to get rid of them?
best regards,
I added
On 7/12/19 4:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
hi,
when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
Is there a way to get rid of them?
best regards,
I added the following line to my root .profile to prevent apt
Hi.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 08:37:09AM -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > apt install chromium task-marathi-desktop- task-nepali-desktop- ...-
>
> Above would help if chromium was recommending task-* packages which it
> doesn't on Debian, so for Debian systems I doubt that would help
Hi Pierre,
Quoting Reco (2019-07-12 08:09:03)
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 01:03:33PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
> > useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...) Is
> > there a w
Hi.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 01:03:33PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
> useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
> Is there a way to get rid of them?
apt install chromium
hi,
when installing some packages (chromiun for example), I get a lot of
useless languages (task-marathi-desktop task-nepali-desktop ...)
Is there a way to get rid of them?
best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 25 May 2019, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> As one who has been involved in "low level plumbing", since the 1970's
> (including on IBM Mainframe Computers), I'm not afraid of Assembler
> Language. I'm surprised, that I didn't know about Rust (package rustc).
> Thanks for alerting me!
Rust, the
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:35 PM Dekks Herton wrote:
> Paul Sutton writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> > languages are mostly used? I am asking as it helps to give people an
> > idea of what they
Hellow~
> I am guessing as the default command line interface is bash, then bash
> and bash scripting would be useful to learn but on top of that what
> would people suggest I try and promote.
To me, Python is easy, useful, for example, my custom message-id[1] is
from python3. Also Python is
James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Just out of morbid curiosity: what about a full ANSI PL/I?
>
> (And the mere fact that I'm asking ages me.)
mu! (unasking makes you younger?! :) )A
ancient languages i've used but not in quite a long
time now.
COBOL, SNOBOL, ALGOL, LISP
of all
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 07:43:05PM +0300, Ryan Dean wrote:
> This is such an amazing topic which language is most widely used and which
> most useful. Many CS people only want to focus, do not want waste time in
> learning milllions of different languages, which will cause language
>
This is such an amazing topic which language is most widely used and which
most useful. Many CS people only want to focus, do not want waste time in
learning milllions of different languages, which will cause language
barriers. We have limited amount of time and millions of other things in
real
Hi All
Just to say thank for the information. I have made a short blog post on
some of the languages mentioned and put links to what I would hope are
useful related resources.
http://zleap.net/debian-getting-started-3/
I am trying to write this so I can hopefully encourage those who
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 08:47:26PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2019 20:28:04 +0200
> "Thomas Schmitt" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Glenn English wrote:
> > > LISP was the first high level language I
> > > learned. Thought I was going to die...
> >
> > Yeah. Why ain't there no Debian
On 5/24/19 11:19 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> On 5/24/19 10:03 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>> On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
>>> On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote:
On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
> Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy
Paul Sutton writes:
> Hi
>
> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> languages are mostly used? I am asking as it helps to give people an
> idea of what they need to learn or will learn as part of helping.
AFAIK Kernel + low level plumbing are prima
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:15 PM ghe wrote:
> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> > languages are mostly used?
>
> C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
On 5/24/19 3:19 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I dislike python on the other hand...
I did too, when I looked at it a few years ago. But Python3 looks
reasonably civilized.
And so the interpreter replaces 4 spaces with a semicolon. I think I can
live with that...
--
Glenn English
Hi,
On Fri, 24 May 2019 19:45:23 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote:
(...)
> (Astounding how few languages are mentioned there.
> No Piet ? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
> )
seems like Piet isn't really a Debian programming language.
At least Debian
On 5/24/19 10:03 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote:
On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is
there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to
Hi,
Joe wrote:
> geda-gschem and related electronics tools rely on Guile. I have Guile
> libraries 1.8, 2.0 and 2.2 installed, and they increase in size from
> 2.6MB to 11.8MB to 45MB. So something must still be going on...
It is still the official glue language of GNU. (To my luck its use does
On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote:
>> On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
>>> Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is
>>> there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand
>>> other people's code.
On Fri, 24 May 2019 16:08:44 +0100
Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> Not just on the coding side of things as we have markdown / html / css
> perhaps LaTeX for documentation.
>
I've done practically all my coding for the last ten years in php. With
a disparate collection of computing devices, web
On Fri, 24 May 2019 20:28:04 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Glenn English wrote:
> > LISP was the first high level language I
> > learned. Thought I was going to die...
>
> Yeah. Why ain't there no Debian package with Guile ?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
>
>
geda-gschem
Hi,
Glenn English wrote:
> LISP was the first high level language I
> learned. Thought I was going to die...
Yeah. Why ain't there no Debian package with Guile ?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=guile
yields (after choosing a package)
On 5/24/19, 11:00 AM, ghe wrote:
I forgot about LISP too. LISP was the first high level language I
learned. Thought I was going to die...
(CLUTTER CLUTTER (CDR CLUTTER)) is probably the only s-expression I
still remember from over half a lifetime ago. (It's a line of code from
the "Blocks
On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote:
On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is
there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand
other people's code. Python, IMHO, seems to be creeping up to replace it.
I'm
On 5/24/19 11:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 1,122 lines of code in Buster.
Oh. So that's what's wrong with Buster :-)
> (Astounding how few languages are mentioned there.
> No Piet ? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
I forgot about LISP too. LISP was the first h
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:43 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
...
> That's plain wrong: Debian has perl at its core, and Python not.
>
> Also, your simplification of Perl is common among folks ignorant about
> Perl but is wrong as well: You _can_ write difficult-to-read code in
> Perl by by no means do
Just out of morbid curiosity: what about a full ANSI PL/I?
--
JHHL
(And the mere fact that I'm asking ages me.)
On 5/24/19 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote:
>> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> What goes on with Perl ?
Can you say "Python"?
Perl was great a while back, but it leaves something to be desired today.
--
Glenn English
On 5/24/19 11:42 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> That's plain wrong: Debian has perl at its core, and Python not.
Please note the word "creeping." Perl is used a lot -- it's a very
powerful language, but its syntax and data structures are less than optimal.
I've written a lot of Perl, but I've
Quoting mick crane (2019-05-24 19:21:33)
> On 2019-05-24 17:14, ghe wrote:
> > On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> >
> >> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> >> languages are mostly used?
> >
> > C
Hi,
ghe wrote:
> I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-)
1,122 lines of code in Buster.
See
https://sources.debian.org/stats/#sloc_current
(Astounding how few languages are mentioned there.
No Piet ? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
)
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
Quoting ghe (2019-05-24 18:14:42)
> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> > languages are mostly used?
>
> C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
> others
On 24/05/2019 17:51, john doe wrote:
> On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
>> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
>>> languages are mostly used?
>> C, perl, java, ruby, python, bas
On 2019-05-24 17:14, ghe wrote:
On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
languages are mostly used?
C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though
On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote:
> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
>> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
>> languages are mostly used?
>
> C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
> others. I do
On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> languages are mostly used?
C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-)
> I am asking as
Quoting Paul Sutton (2019-05-24 17:08:44)
> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> languages are mostly used? I am asking as it helps to give people an
> idea of what they need to learn or will learn as part of helping.
>
> I am guessing as the
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