Re: PicoLisp as first language

2017-07-31 Thread Lindsay John Lawrence
Thanks for writing this. I think it is a great start and will help a lot of other newcomers as well /Lindsay On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Nehal wrote: > Dear PicoLisp programmers, > > Hi! I am Nehal, a new PicoLisp learner and programmer from India. > > I am

Re: PicoLisp as first language

2017-07-31 Thread David Bloom
Nice start and great idea Nehal! It would be nice to see the result of each call. Later you can use that to demonstrate how and why the languages return the values that they do. David On Jul 31, 2017 10:37 AM, "Joh-Tob Schäg" wrote: Hello I would update Definitions,

Re: PicoLisp as first language

2017-07-31 Thread Joh-Tob Schäg
Hello, i would update Definitions, assignment and bindings Let is only used for local Am 31. Juli 2017 16:07:38 MESZ schrieb Nehal : >Dear PicoLisp programmers, > >Hi! I am Nehal, a new PicoLisp learner and programmer from India. > >I am currently working on making

Re: PicoLisp as first language

2017-07-31 Thread Joh-Tob Schäg
Hello I would update Definitions, assignment and bindings Let is only used for local assignments. setq compares to best to the examples of the other languages. Sincerely, Am 31. Juli 2017 16:07:38 MESZ schrieb Nehal : >Dear PicoLisp programmers, > >Hi! I am Nehal,

Re: PicoLisp as first language

2017-07-31 Thread Christophe Gragnic
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Nehal wrote: > Dear PicoLisp programmers, > > Hi! I am Nehal, a new PicoLisp learner and programmer from India. Hi Nehal, hi India ! > I am currently working on making simple, easy to begin with PicoLisp > Documentation for school

17.6 back in a Tinycore container

2017-07-31 Thread David Bloom
Hello PicoLispers, I've updated the Docker container to the latest source. It turns out that compiling the source in a Tinycore container, copying back to host, finally copying precompiled source back into a fresh container is the path to the smallest image. Back down to 14MB including vim so

Re: 17.6 back in a Tinycore container

2017-07-31 Thread Tamas Herman
Hello David, There is an upcoming feature in Docker which allows building containers the way you described. It's called multi-stage builds: https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/eng-image/multistage-build/ It's available in beta versions only for now. Btw, I'm using https://www.notion.so/