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amen zwa, esq. @[email protected] · 2026-07-27 · 01:02 UTC

By the time I started poking round in LISP, sometime in the mid 1980s, I had been programming in assembly, FORTRAN, and C for a few years—the weapons of all EE undergrads, in those days. I was #imperative, to the core. Yet, I took to LISP. But I hit the FP wall, when I met ML a bit later.

ML was then far simpler than modern FP languages. Despite being comfortable with LISPy FP, I struggled with the purer MLish FP. With effort, it all clicked. Later in CS grad school, I met early, small Haskell, which was not a big gap for me to cross.

As a grad student, I taught FP, in ML, to upper-level undergrads. Many of them came to the course armed with C or C++, so they faced the same hurdles I did. My personal experience helped me guide them. To my surprise, a few students who took ML as their very first programming language suffered far less. They were lower-level students who lacked programming experience but had already acquired theoretical proficiency. Because they came to ML without imperative prejudices, but armed with theoretical concepts, they got FP immediately.

The #declarative paradigm is indeed a tall step to climb for the imperative #programmers. I would have cracked, had I transitioned from C and Smalltalk directly to Haskell, without the aid from LISP and ML.

Every freshman today enters the CS programme with at least a few years of C++ or Python, usually taught by high school teachers without CS background. And most FP courses now use large, complex, industrial-strength languages like OCaml or Haskell.

In my view, introducing FP using older, smaller, simpler, stabler languages, like R⁴RS Scheme and Standard ML '97, would be far less off-putting to the imperative-minded novices.

#programmers #declarative #imperative

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-06-18 · 22:00 UTC

#imperative : of vital importance

- French: impératif

- German: dringend

- Italian: imperativo

- Portuguese: imperativo

- Spanish: imperativo

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 22:55 UTC

A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley

In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson Occom

More about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philliswheatley #deliverance #freedom #humannature #imperative #instinct #liberty #oppression #slavery

#freedom #slavery #quote #quotes #qotd #instinct

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 22:00 UTC

#imperative : expressive of command

- French: impératif

- German: dringend

- Italian: imperativo

- Portuguese: imperativo

- Spanish: imperativo

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-19 · 18:35 UTC

A quotation from William Pitt

It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt (1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1804-06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London

More info about this quote: wist.info/pitt-william/3164/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williampitt #control #emergency #excuse #government #imperative #justification #necessity #need #oppression #power #pretense #security #servility #tyranny

#quotes #quote #security #power #government #tyranny

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-10-11 · 22:00 UTC

#imperative : expressive of command

- French: impératif

- German: dringend

- Italian: imperativo

- Portuguese: imperativo

- Spanish: imperativo

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Vivekanandan KS :nixos:(vivek) @[email protected] · 2025-10-02 · 05:42 UTC

@finner
#Nix became an awesome ecosystem, it's not just one thing now. All the projects of it doing awesome things.
Scripts are imperative, Nix idea is like declarative and atomic in nature no midway script fails and undo problems etc.
If u wanna read about nix shells have a look at this, I made this for a workshop few weeks back. It's almost like blog, so u get everything from basics.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sFSG0As2L9cWjJ8qcRS6O4XDrMPe-WSlbu2oKryPIWM/

#nix #shells #scripts #imperative #declarative #atomic #workshop #blog

#nix #shells #scripts #imperative #declarative #atomic

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-01 · 23:33 UTC

A quotation from William James

Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.

William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)

More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering

#quotes #quote #violence #war #qotd #duty

Moshville Times @[email protected] · 2025-09-08 · 18:35 UTC

New post: Album Review: Various Artists – Imperative Music Compilation Volume 19 https://www.moshville.co.uk/reviews/album-review/2025/09/album-review-various-artists-imperative-music-compilation-volume-19/ #Imperative

#imperative

Vivekanandan KS :nixos:(vivek) @[email protected] · 2025-08-25 · 16:02 UTC

@joepie91
#Declarative #manifests are great. But when #people start #practicing the declarative #idea they'll #love it. Coz almost all #programs from #shells, #terminals, #programs have #configuration #files, whose #workflow is kind of, do changes and apply and repeat, that's all. That'll be a good #future #practice too.
#Imperative workflows are currently okayish for #GUI #applications, eg: changing a #setting in GUI and it'll store in declarative #manifest. That'll #help us all move forward.

#declarative #manifests #people #practicing #idea #love

Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-07-13 · 06:10 UTC

Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

https://github.com/renoise/pattrns

#HackerNews #Experimental #Music #Engine #Music #Sequence #Generator #Imperative #Style #Renoise #GitHub

#hackernews #experimental #music #engine #sequence #generator

Vivekanandan KS :nixos:(vivek) @[email protected] · 2025-07-09 · 18:05 UTC

@thelinuxcast All the best. Hope u start understanding the #declarative way of doing things in #NixOS with #Nix
Here's a tip:
Set users mutable to false. So that u declaratively do #everything in the #config #file instead of #imperative methods. Also give #hashed #passwords if u are #porting between another PCs and want them to #work similarly.
To put it simply, do everything in nix #configurations to change the #state of the #system.

#declarative #nixos #nix #everything #config #file

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-07-07 · 18:05 UTC

Ah yes, the thrilling tale of using a 13-minute read to discover the groundbreaking, Earth-shattering ability to verify a program that basically counts to ten! 😴✨ Who knew #imperative #programming could be so... imperative? 🤯🔍
https://markushimmel.de/blog/my-first-verified-imperative-program/ #humor #programming #software #verification #tech #news #tech #storytelling #HackerNews #ngated

#imperative #programming #humor #software #verification #tech

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-06-08 · 22:00 UTC

#imperative : expressive of command

- French: impératif

- German: dringend

- Italian: imperativo

- Portuguese: imperativo

- Spanish: imperativo

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nicomo-warsaw.bsky.social @[email protected] · 2025-05-16 · 21:06 UTC

#MAGA are #Bananas #Resistance is #Imperative.

#maga #bananas #resistance #imperative

nicomo-warsaw.bsky.social @[email protected] · 2025-05-12 · 07:42 UTC

#People #RiseUp & #StandUp - in large numbers you can overwhelm the law breaking ICE agents who act like SS Gestapo soldiers. Congress has not approved any law that allows them to behave the way they do. Your #Resistance is #Imperative - #Act to save your #country

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