From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tanguy Le Carrour Subject: Re: Introducting myself Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:32:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20190415203223.vnpqtlnkqmauyrqf@melmoth> References: <20190413085756.jsk7frxh5gmga4ub@sophet.localdomain> <87d0lqi3tn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG8HJ-0007hh-Lu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:32:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG8HI-00084B-Jp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:32:33 -0400 Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:46295) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG8HI-000816-Ak for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:32:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d0lqi3tn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Le 04/13, Pierre Neidhardt a écrit : > Welcome! Thanks! > > The picture is not all bright however, and things started to get complicated > > when I tried to customize the system. I've been using Python as my main language > > for more than 10 years and Guile is… something that I still have to get used to! > > ^_^' > > Guile, Scheme and Lisp-languages in general can be quite a shock at > first indeed. But once you've tamed the psychological bias, the reward > is really worth it I believe: Guile is a very powerful and expressive > language which empowers you in ways that very few languages out there can. Can't wait to see that! :-) Oh, btw, thanks for the very good [A packaging tutorial for Guix][1]. The manual is quite nice, but contains a **lot** of information, so the one-page article is really a must read! [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/ Regards -- Tanguy