ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.
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Month: September 2019
7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme
Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.
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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.
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Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain
Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.
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16 Excellent Free Books to Learn Lisp
Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. It was invented in 1958, with the language being conceived by John McCarthy and is based on his paper “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine”.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Julia
Julia is a high-level, high-performance, homoiconic and functional dynamic programming language for technical computing. Its roots are in Lisp.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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Sayonara Player – small, clear and fast audio player
Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend.
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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Logo
The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. It features interactivity, modularity, extensibility, with flexibility of data types.
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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Fortran
Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended free books.
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