No matter how good a programmable platform is, it needs a killer app. Smalltalk could do very well. (I'm still hopeful about Open Cobalt.)
miniblog.
What should we look for in programming languages used for teaching? https://m.cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/203554-five-principles-for-programming-languages-for-learners/fulltext (and what are our goals? Excellent article.)
Ruby is exploring some neat optimisations, with graceful fallback in the event of functions changing:
"Scheme, they say, is an idea rather than a language." https://hardmath123.github.io/perchance-to-scheme.html (fun overview of scheme dialects)
@AskHalifaxBank Your website has some rather strange error messages -- this sounds like a placeholder?
Guile's manual includes a quine that demonstrates cycling thru different levels of the compiler tower. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Compiler-Tower.html Mind blown.
I've been playing with Geiser today for Scheme development in Emacs. It's delightful, and even has an excellent manual.
Simple Regex Language: https://github.com/TYVRNET/SRL (feels like PCRE meets cucumber)
TIL `self` is a global in the browser, so eslint won't help you if you forget `var self = this`. Subtle!
I've never really understood the desire to have completion for built-in keywords. They're not long enough to be worth saving keystrokes.
Incredibly, Guile Emacs was being discussed as early as 1998! https://web.archive.org/web/20081201143448/http://sanpietro.red-bean.com/guile/guile/old/3114.html
Company mode supports an impressive range of Emacs commands in its popup! C-v scrolls, and C-s even gives incremental search!
Reading some more, Wasamasa's .emacs.d is full of treasures and clearly documented. Check it out:
Emacs trivia: if you don't move the cursor, it blinks ten times, then stops (new in 24.4). Courtesy of this config:
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