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This is a tutorial introduction to using Guile, the GNU extension language. I'm aiming at people who want to use Guile, and who don't want to mess around in the guts of Guile itself.

This reference manual documents Guile, GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions. It describes how to use Guile in many useful and interesting ways.

This Info file contains edition 1.0 of the reference manual, corresponding to Guile version 1.6.2.

JavaScript = C + Lisp

As the size of software systems being created and -- more importantly -- maintained increases, it becomes more important than ever to write clean, robust, modular programs. Hoare's ``Emperor's New Clothes'' is a spectre that haunts anyone engaged in the task of creating complex software systems today. And in a future that promises automatic generation and verification of programs, programming constructs and techniques that have simple, rigorous semantics will be of primary importance to help these intelligent tools function.

Stéphane Ducasse's collection of free online Smalltalk related books.

Closures are one of the most powerful features of ECMAScript (javascript) but they cannot be property exploited without understanding them. They are, however, relatively easy to create, even accidentally, and their creation has potentially harmful consequences, particularly in some relatively common web browser environments. To avoid accidentally encountering the drawbacks and to take advantage of the benefits they offer it is necessary to understand their mechanism.

Designed for both teachers and students, this website features examples designed to introduce future developers to the power of Common Lisp.

This RCR presents cut-based AOP, an efficient and easy-to-use approach to Aspect Oriented Programming for Ruby.

The work herein is the culmination of multi-year discussion and inquiry on the topic of AOP for Ruby. It has been carried-out with the ultimate hope of establishing Ruby as a premier AOP language, indeed the AOP language of choice. Since AOP is a very powerful paradigm for abstracting programming solutions into separate concerns, and shows great promise for improvements in code maintenance and reusability, it seems only natural that an agile language such as Ruby would provide support for this increasingly popular pattern of design.

A conceptual understanding of file system, especially data structure and related terms will help you become a successful system administrator. I have seen many new Linux system administrator w/o any clue about file system. The conceptual knowledge can be applied to restore file system in an emergency situation.

The code on this page grew out of a discussion on the Object Technology in Computer Science Education list server. The discussion had been going on for about 36 hours in late March and early April 2000 centered on the question of "What is OO really; is it a real paradigm, different from procedural programming or is it just a packaging mechanism for procedural programming?" Both of the authors believe that it is a real paradigm shift, requiring a change in mental model in the practitioners.