From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: Looking to contribute Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:25:01 +0800 Message-ID: <87r2y2vmsy.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20170627221608.A23B52013B@smtp.hushmail.com> <20170628154943.36021286@scratchpost.org> <20170629132246.9E3F92013A@smtp.hushmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQbJw-0002ZC-1o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:25:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQbJs-0000j6-UY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:25:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::232]:35607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQbJs-0000hS-Nq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:25:24 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x232.google.com with SMTP id c73so52241560pfk.2 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:25:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170629132246.9E3F92013A@smtp.hushmail.com> (cinder's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:22:46 -0400") 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: cinder88@hushmail.com Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain cinder88@hushmail.com writes: [...] > 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. > Since you mentioned you see analogy between language and OS (they face similar problems), I think you will find this[0] interesting. It discusses how delimted continuations are often used in OS without explicit mentioning it. Also, this reminds me of the joke: Emacs is an operating system > 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. [0]: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/zipper.html#context-OS --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEdZDkzSn0Cycogr9IxYq4eRf1Ea4FAllVG80ACgkQxYq4eRf1 Ea6WohAAlkqSv7ycBEVenOJNAej2T4FWB2Gd4q5hy89ULRXugsPUCpAfA37mQgb6 0XQ0wT3CQiys7uuw+y9XXE23N3/o0Ah6phMyaEA/U9av+WoZ0UmgFjLbKJ6VWUun twbhvVSKT/IV/TJH9s8JliecfQXjST7jAxghe0jp22PJnrDiHM7xXtUDEshp+/ws iFsHRqDwPJpPq/4iqhCnw5q+JNvb6paPvpsPuHYky7Wq3wtYJa8B2i+koag2QXuH rgVzq2EnMLA52Xx0K5VoDFZ2IWeq8rFiaH+K5t185tKalENfGkFlYdatH9BoX+oB NA1XfbsJP6Ljwk5BmkGYCLj3iUuEOJn9mLZpKNH5Swsx4ob8wnvKk/SJsn5qhH77 wSej2OWQywjd0yZBv3EeU767Qf42kKxZUKLLgo7nkDcxGNvZdtPS3JajAqXxLak3 k3EdcKdeF5XwtD7UKEJiI14N2Z4PmKHgcpE+MUrRNj3oPKWsHirMyusILywJhuNJ GDcaXrZFRG0fRMIwIRpFVii9bINZ9IHN72VJTxxEjE6YMcAK5C7E/O4cQwkfew+6 EO6ijqSonXVjNcepM0upP0oOLjDXhumL1Vu8tq4s5etPUe4uNhwZckDXPH/RhhNA xbVFXomwHdYYiEygqzM6uP5xtrimBR+rgBJxThHBiBxtZQd46fM= =7z27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--