From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joel James Adamson Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: searching book tips Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:38:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8739tyoich.fsf@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain> <87sk1y1ynm.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87k4n8ld4c.fsf@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283173422 22335 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 13:03:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" , guile-user@gnu.org To: anoglad@gmx.at Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 15:03:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq41P-00027a-KT for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:03:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq3hN-0002N5-0v for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58539 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq3fP-0001JN-Jq for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq3ep-0004BR-Fn for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu ([152.2.67.61]:43618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq3ep-0003ue-BS for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu (chondestes.bio.unc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7UCcmhq015578; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: (from joel@localhost) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7UCcmxK015577; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:38:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: chondestes.bio.unc.edu: joel set sender to adamsonj@email.unc.edu using -f In-Reply-To: <87k4n8ld4c.fsf@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain> (anoglad@gmx.at's message of "Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:26:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8121 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable anoglad@gmx.at writes: > Thank you so much for these nice links. > >> We learn C# at school... and I'd like to write beautiful free software. > > I should have written: "We learn C# at school... but I'd like to write > beautiful free software." Right, well C# may or may not be a good language to learn programming concepts, but I'm glad you're looking to use other languages to write Free Software. You /can/ write Free Software in C#, but you probably shouldn't[1]. I am focusing now on C and Guile, although I may try C++ sometime soon. I've studied numerous languages over a few years --- with no formal training, take that as you wish --- and I think C and Scheme are the best for my tasks and for satisfying other needs, like portability, freedom, etc.=20=20 I would also suggest learning Emacs Lisp, as it is something you can learn from and use to improve your workflow on a daily basis. Books I recommend: =2D The Little Schemer[2] =2D The Practice of Programming[3] =2D The Art of Unix Programming[4]: mainly for history and philosophy, less so for actual code Joel Footnotes:=20 [1] http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono [2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/ [3] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/index.html [4] http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ =2D-=20 Joel J. Adamson Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAkx7plcACgkQp61eY7lvATImpgD/SeAakEqVpqTOtkg6PluJti33 s4J1P0iuM8vKPs2Sk3EBAIde34NYwgrc5avcVG1A3oD9QSAzPCo4T3iXezVzJOkp =l+uT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--