From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
To: cinder88@hushmail.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking to contribute
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:46:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmp6aouu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170629132246.9E3F92013A@smtp.hushmail.com> (cinder's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:22:46 -0400")
cinder88@hushmail.com writes:
> I'm a mathematician, which means I'm lazy and want to do things the
> right way once so I don't have to do them again. The way that modern
> operating systems work, with their one huge environment and no
> tracking of state, is insane and unsustainable. (How many times have
> I wasted a Saturday morning trying to get audio work on a new Gentoo
> install?) Stateless, declarative systems seem to be the obvious way
> forward.
>
> I'm a big fan of Alan Kay, and one thing he always made clear is that
> there should be no separation between the language and the operating
> system. I've found that many of the problems which plague modern OSes
> are the same which plague C. Which is why a system which sits on top
> of Scheme, one of the most powerful programming paradigms we have,
> is so appealing.
>
> More concretely, I can be of the most help with:
> - Texlive and dealing with pdf stuff (cairo, etc)
> - Emacs
> - Networking
> But realy I'll try to help wherever it's needed, because this project
> should be a reality.
I have nothing meaningful to contribute except to say that I appreciate
and agree with this line of thinking.
I have also found this to be a wonderful, warm, and welcoming community
doing great work. The only thing I don't like is that I haven't been
able to find time to contribute :)
Welcome!
--
Katherine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-29 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 22:16 Looking to contribute cinder88
2017-06-28 13:49 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-28 15:01 ` Leo Famulari
2017-06-29 15:49 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-29 17:02 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-07-01 13:15 ` Deleting system generations Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-01 15:32 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-07-02 20:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-29 13:22 ` Looking to contribute cinder88
2017-06-29 13:46 ` Katherine Cox-Buday [this message]
2017-06-29 15:25 ` Alex Vong
2017-06-29 16:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-07-02 23:30 ` Binding generator, for Guile, to C libraries Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-04 0:41 ` Installer development Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-05 21:53 ` Binding generator, for Guile, to C libraries Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-06 19:57 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-07 11:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-05 13:20 ` Looking to contribute Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-07 11:34 ` Installer, ISO9660, etc Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-07 16:13 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-09 20:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-10 13:41 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-10 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-10 21:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-07-11 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-11 10:13 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-28 13:56 ` Looking to contribute Alex Vong
2017-06-28 17:41 ` James Richardson
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