I found the "Little Schemer" an enjoyable tour on exorcizing the power of lisp. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go there are a plethora of information in various AI memos as well as the READscheme web resource with the original LAMBDA papers (readscheme.org) which most certainly worth PRINTing if anything to get primed for SiCP.

I've been using FreeBSd since 4.x. I'm assuming your referring to video drivers and the xwindowing system which is non operating system specific. I should remind you that this is a subsystem (or extension) and should be viewed from the point of a view as power users (and engineers) already know where to find out about chipsets, their relabeling, and of course the ability to set up their configuration intelligently. More importantly a recommendation like this shouldn't be considered unless you've spent significant time building and customizing your OS and graphical layer.

I'm not. No need to fix what is not broken.

Shouldn't it be "A free letter to RMS" =)

I have a feeling Dr. Stallman remembers EGCS, xemacs and much more. What's the old BSD saying "Shut up and hack!" ... amusing s/eliza/M-x doctor/ may also remember the tcl wars also.

Ah neural nets though the representation of term rewrite in form of a recursion theory of finite automata with respect to constraint based back-propagation to derive an inductive history rewrite mechanism in retrospect to N v NP depending on the terminal nodes. s/ex/&pression/

s/marketing plan/engineer/g

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.

So hard to code with 4 hooves and one corn. Been there, done that. Mexico, never again.

Charlie? Charlie Root? Charlie??!?!... is that you?

We need more of that! Wow they had everything back then ... down to the traps and pitfalls and utilizes the minimum resources for working engineer. Funny thing they couldn't express the parentage and origins of vi text editor which derived indirectly from the ed source via fork called em which was used to implement ex.

I curious their philosophy (less is more?). I used dwm for a bit and still use a personally hacked inspired from dwm console derived dvtm, also by Marc iirc. If their going towards UNIX philosophy concepts it will be nice to hack a post config to extend it with personal my schemes and nda|dfa regex engines. This looks like a nice project. Looking forward to watching it.

They actually have a philosophy page which explains it: http://suckless.org/philosophy

It basically boils down to minimalism (in general) with an emphasis on minimalist code instead of minimalist UX/UI (whenever the two conflict).

I grew up with the one which didn't have the letter 'm' in it. The lisp/scheme concept could be seen as an alternative to vim/script for embedding/extending where the opt-in was meant for posix ex/regex programmers as an alternative to non vi modality with recursive expression via either McCarthy or Kleene closures and styles of programming with or without /term(cap|info)/ databases.

Sort of a lisp 1.5 with scheme style syntax. They could opt in within the rc file to allow users not interested to ignore it. Would be closer to the original vi then.