Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

[Joshua Branson]

Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> writes:

> Joshua Branson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to
>> transform the underlying data.  They currently have a translator that
>> translates an xml file into a directory tree.  Imagine searching an html
>> file with the "find" tool.  Wouldn't that be something different?
>
> Or imagine installing a packages from remote servers with shell globbing:
>
> pkg --install /http://ftp.gnu.org/packages/*/*.deb
>
> Last time I used the Hurd, some variant of this actually worked.

Isn't that super cool?

>
> Best wishes,
> Arne