Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> 
>> Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to
>> > transform the underlying data.  They currently have a translator that
>> > translates an xml file into a directory tree.  Imagine searching an html
>> > file with the "find" tool.  Wouldn't that be something different?
>> 
>> Or imagine installing a packages from remote servers with shell globbing:
>> 
>> pkg --install /http://ftp.gnu.org/packages/*/*.deb
>> 
>> Last time I used the Hurd, some variant of this actually worked.
>
> Like this (note: my comments interspersed, prefixed with ###)
>
>   ### note the option '-s' -- I don't want to clobber my box!
>
>   tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-get -s install '*php*'
>

I didn't know that debian support installing all "php" packages like that!

> What's my point?
>
>   - Debian has some headstart: it's absolutely worth learning
>     from them

What things can guix do like debian does?

>   - Perhaps other distros also know how to play this trick
>   - Selecting packages by name via some string matching may have
>     ummm... strange consequences ;-D
>
> Don't get me wrong: I do think Guix goes into the absolutely right
> direction, as opposed to the current cloudy container craze.
>
> Cheers
> -- tomás