However, we shouldn’t forget that we are still living in the stone age of computational science. Fortran was the Paleolithic, Python is the Neolithic, but we have to move on. — Exploring Racket

Benefits of not using an IDE. Main point as far as I’m concerned is that even light IDEs (e.g., VS Code) are too complex for what I really need to do. Git and debugger integration are a plus, though, but I already get that using Emacs or Vim.

Using Vim - Beyond the Basics. #vim

An Opinionated Guide to xargs. #unix

The “true” program does nothing; it merely exits with a zero exit status. This can be done with an empty file that’s marked executable, and that’s what it was in the earliest unix system libraries. Such an empty file will be interpreted as a shell script that does nothing, and since it does this successfully, the shell exits with a zero exit status. — The /bin/true Command and Copyright

Let’s write a compiler, part 1.

Here’s an interesting list of resources in addition to StatLib: Statistics, Statistical Computing, and Mathematics.

Computational Statistics in Python. #python

Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror. #clang

I am one of those people who came to Racket because it is a Lisp. I feel that I should be better at creating/using software and general problem solving than I am, and I guess you could say I am looking for the fabled Lisp enlightenment. Maybe saying Lisp is the language of the gods is overwrought, but nobody ever said that JavaScript made them smarter, or that they learned a lot using anything by Microsoft. — Thoughts On Lisp And Racket

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