Suppose I want to convert a string to uppercase in a language.
(1) Google it.
(2) Read the official docs or a Stack Overflow answer.
(3) Copy-paste the function/method name to my program.
This is an absurd number of keystrokes! Do any languages aim to minimise this?
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I regularly see the phrase "all Xs are Ys, but not all Ys are Xs" in teaching material. Even material for children!
I have to re-read it every time. I very much prefer "Y is a more general category than X" or "X is a subset of Y".
Do people find this phrasing helpful, or is it poor pedagogy?
An interesting feature of the Grok TiddlyWiki interface: it has the sidebar on the right.
I see a sidebar on the left way more often, but arguably it makes more sense on the right for a wiki? The content is effectively more prominent.
I've written my first man page! https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/commit/cb63ca88303d3c8dffd763cf6e5772e45c045588
Troff syntax is new to me and a little hard to read -- apparently you shouldn't use blank lines. Turns out you can use pandoc to convert markdown to troff instead.