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http://t.co/E25k6mQNlI is a mix of Python, Racket and Ocaml, and influenced by research on teaching programming. Interesting, early days.

setup.py vs requirements.txt https://caremad.io/blog/setup-vs-requirement/

Obscure Unix of the day: If your terminal is accepting commands but not showing what you're typing, try 'stty sane'.

Yolk is a nifty Python tool for finding versions available on PyPI, but sadly it can return different results to pip: http://t.co/ffgeJ6CZjY

OH: "Database design, including demoralisation."

Sorting, trigonometry, filesystem access, HTTP. All these libraries I took for granted until I created a programming language. Nontrivial!

I'm excited to release Trifle lisp 0.6! https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle#trifle-lisp Better lists, better strings and a much more hackable standard library!

Excited to see Gnome 3.12! The terminal reflowing text is very neat.

How can we create tools such that the most fun implementation is the best? Do such tools/libraries/languages exist?

.@melpa_emacs The slow performance of http://t.co/I5DMz0rbJh is causing me problems with my builds. Would you be wiling to host cl-lib?

http://t.co/na9MAzXK76 On this basis, the GNU project could make a fortune selling Emacs!

Documenting code in the first person: http://t.co/VH8EPYH5BI not seen that before!

I prefer learning programming languages by reading tutorials, but I've found screencasts essential for getting started with Smalltalk.

#Emacs package of the day: fancy-narrow. Available on a MELPA near you. Use cases: http://t.co/lQ4aJ6RqUc http://t.co/s0Q7NIHphd

A Haskell project for uploading elisp code to a node.js website: http://t.co/MJFSG8A4QH (fun!) cc @lunaryorn