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Journal by turgid
Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.
A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.
Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?
I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 3, Funny) by hendrikboom on Monday November 29 2021, @07:54PM
Or have a crack at some silliness. Have a crack at nanogenmo, which is the challenge to write a computer program that writes a novel.
I don't think anyone has produced anything along this line that's readable for more than a few paragraphs, but there's lots of open exploration space there.
I've done a few of those. One starts "The mathematician started counting" ... and you can guess what happens then ... lots of numbers until the document is long enough for a novel. There's a catch, though -- at the end he discovers he's off by one, so one of the numbers is missing. Up to you to find it.
It has a sequel [pooq.com] in which the main character counts past infinity into the ordinals. I use elippses ("...") a lot.
Source code for both novels(??) is at https://github.com/hendrikboom3/Text-generation/tree/master/counting [github.com]
-- hendrik