From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: my latest blog post Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:39:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7s41bwz.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87bmcmzfyz.fsf@netris.org> <87lgbpp31h.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45717) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcwN-0006Bu-B3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:25:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcwI-0006r0-DT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:25:55 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcwI-0006qs-4u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:25:50 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Catonano Cc: guix-devel Catonano writes: > Assuming that users read academic articles about programming languages in > order to know your way aroung Guile is not reasonable I fail to see how this follows from Guile=E2=80=99s lack of a macro stepper= . To be honest, I never even heard of a macro stepper before. And I have never felt the need to read computer science papers to =E2=80=9Cknow my way around Guile=E2=80=9D. (I have not studied computer science, so it isn=E2= =80=99t that my background allowed me to skip papers that are mandatory for other users of Guile.) The sentence above seems like an exaggeration to me. (I say this with no hostility, just with surprise.) > The monad accessing the daemon, how would I delve in it ? The Guix manual should explain it fully, while assuming that the concept of a monad is known (because that=E2=80=99s not a Guix or Guile invention).= If it fails to do that then the Guix manual should be updated. -- Ricardo