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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years. #emacs
I learned Emacs in September, 1983
It is now November, 2019
…that’s over thirty six years!
An amazingly long time.
— Perry E. Metzger
TIL that you can #include "/dev/stdin"
— Peter Alexander (@Poita_) November 24, 2019
$ cat in
"Hello, world!"
$ cat a.cpp#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("%s\n",
#include "/dev/stdin"
);
return 0;
}
$ g++ a.cpp < in && ./a.out
Hello, world!
It seems that by default formal technical documentation is targeted towards someone who’s deeply immersed in the ecosystem. But many developers have to juggle a lot of “worlds” in their heads daily. — Examples are the best documentation
Interactive Linear Algebra. (via HN)
Pretty old school R plots and HTML pages: https://aliquote.org/pub/DAAG/, https://aliquote.org/pub/MABMUSPlus/gallery/.
Just found out the morning paper:
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