Hoping to Learn

[PloverWing]

Cool! What platforms/languages do you work with? I'm a Mac/Python guy mainly, but also work with a bit of C/C++. I am old enough to have also used FORTRAN and Pascal though, so definitely some old school memories, LOL!

I'm most comfortable in a Unix environment. We have a Linux machine at work that I connect to for work stuff. My desktop and laptop machines are Macs, which I like because it combines access to a Unix shell with a nice graphical interface.

(For purists, yes, I know that Linux and MacOS are "Unix-like operating systems" rather than being Unix per se. Ahem.)

In my various courses, I teach Scheme, Ada, Prolog, Python, Go, and Haskell. Prolog is my favorite language, though I'm coming to like Python quite a bit. Go is a recent acquisition for me, and I find it to be an interesting entry in the C family of languages. My first language was Pascal, and I also have used FORTRAN IV back in the day. My first programming job was in COBOL, a very very long time ago.

 

[honey badger]

That's an interesting comment. I must confess I don't understand what it means. If you could elaborate, I'd surely appreciate it. Thanks!

the scrip speaks of two paths, one crooked ( broad ) and one straight (narrow ) ... picture a serpent as it winds its way along from side to side ( left and right ) and consider how it is you take thought, as in reason, and this reasoning being a measurement or comparison between two opposites ( good & evil) and therefore not one or the other, but a mixture of both, and this mixture becomes a perception you clothe yourself with ...

now with this picture in mind think of this reasoning between two as a laboring to bring forth by steps as in precept upon precept or thought/leaf upon thought/leaf ( an adding of sin upon sin )

religion is an attempt to come to God/Truth ( seen as separate from self ) in ones own name/measurement ...