[wellylug] Non-standard languages on Linux

[jumbophut]

For the few people who were talking about less mainstream languages on
Linux at tonight's meeting:

* Python: the language behind Gentoo's portage and Google.

<http://diveintopython.org/> (freely downloadable book, easy reading)
<http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/index.htm> (I have only made it to
problem 7 and I've been stuck so long I'm close to giving in and
looking for a hint in the forums).

* Lisp: the language used to manipulate extend emacs.

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html> (what every
year 1 MIT comp sci student must know!)
<http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html> 

* Ruby: Asia's Python?

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ (possibly the wierdest programming tutorial ever)

* Haskell: purer than lisp (i.e. very pure)

http://haskell.org/ (it tries to explain simply, but I still find
monads hard to get a grip on)
[Yes I did just say 'monads', with an 'm', not a 'g' :-)].

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')