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From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 8 Jun 2010 12:10 On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote: > I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been out of touch > for some time. I am looking for intermediate programming help---some > Debian-related---but in a mailing list format, not a message board forum. > > Any suggestions? What language? In any case, sometimes there really isn't a good place to bounce questions off of other users of your language. :( A lot of time, it the read the docs, guess, and test. Debian-related stuff could go here, I suppose, but not a large percentage of users here can also program. If it deals with "Debian internals" (e.g. dpkg, update-$foo, apt, etc.), then debian-devel might be able to help. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Mark Allums on 8 Jun 2010 13:10 On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote: >> I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been out of touch >> for some time. I am looking for intermediate programming help---some >> Debian-related---but in a mailing list format, not a message board forum. >> >> Any suggestions? > > What language? Oh, the usual suspects, particularly C/C++. > In any case, sometimes there really isn't a good place to bounce questions off > of other users of your language. :( A lot of time, it the read the docs, > guess, and test. > > Debian-related stuff could go here, I suppose, but not a large percentage of > users here can also program. If it deals with "Debian internals" (e.g. dpkg, > update-$foo, apt, etc.), then debian-devel might be able to help. Thanks. I have a project to implement a small interpeted language (only console I/O). My implementation language is C++. At first, it won't "be Debian-involved"; that will come in pretty far down the road. I knew C++ to 98.6% fifteen years ago, but I'm rusty now. (The language is internal use only at this point. Not a language with a previous implementation, or I would start there. I may GPL it at some future point if it ever sees the light of day. Not a list-oriented project, or I would use guile as a model.) Thanks again, MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C0E7712.8090405(a)allums.com
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 8 Jun 2010 13:30 On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:00:02 Mark Allums wrote: > On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote: > >> I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been out of touch > >> for some time. I am looking for intermediate programming help---some > >> Debian-related---but in a mailing list format, not a message board > >> forum. > >> > >> Any suggestions? > > > > What language? > > Oh, the usual suspects, particularly C/C++. Generic help for both of these are generally on the associated newsgroups. comp.lang.c++ or something like that. I'm pretty sure there are some services that do news <-> mail bi-directional gateways; maybe gmane? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Andrew Sackville-West on 8 Jun 2010 17:30
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:00:02 Mark Allums wrote: > > On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote: > > >> I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been out of touch > > >> for some time. I am looking for intermediate programming help---some > > >> Debian-related---but in a mailing list format, not a message board > > >> forum. > > >> > > >> Any suggestions? > > > > > > What language? > > > > Oh, the usual suspects, particularly C/C++. > > Generic help for both of these are generally on the associated newsgroups. > > comp.lang.c++ or something like that. I'm pretty sure there are some services > that do news <-> mail bi-directional gateways; maybe gmane? just .02 here, I personally find irc to be particularly helpful for "bouncing ideas" when programming. It seems to have that right mix, for me at least, of immediate help and variety of ideas without mental gear-switching of reading API docs. heh, to put that in English... I find that the interactive component of irc is more in line with how my brain functions when coding than the longer lag times of email. But that is, of course, a personal preference. I don't know what, if any C/C++ irc channels there are, but I'm sure they're out there. A |