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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> Duncan Coutts wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:40 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>> It's my usual please to announce a new ebuild monkey. Justin hails from |
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>>> Brighton, Massachusetts. His educational background should provide a |
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>>> good theoretical approach to all the future flames on gentoo-dev: |
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>>> "I'm pretty much self taught computer wise as I went to the University |
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>>> of Maine in order to get my Master's in Mathematics where I focused on |
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>>> abstract algebra and number theory, I liked the challenges of |
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>>> discovering proofs, and pretty much ignored any real applications." |
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>>> Please give him the normal welcome. |
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Yay, a math person! Welcome to the ghettoo ;p |
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>> Welcome Justin! |
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>> If you like beautiful code with firm mathematical underpinnings and a |
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>> slight lack of real applications you'll love Haskell ;-) |
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>> You're most welcome to come chat with us in #gentoo-haskell |
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@yaar the haskell is nice, although why it takes more resources to build |
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than OOo is beyond me.. *ducks* |
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> Hmm, a mystery developer. |
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> Hi Justin, I wonder why I haven't seen you on the functional programming |
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> side of Gentoo, you being a maths guy and all. Anyway, welcome and don't |
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> let the Haskell guys fool you ;P |
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> Marijn |
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> - -- |
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> Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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You're not fooling us, hkBst, we know you're a secret Schemer.. ;-) ML? Now, |
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there's a language.. *checks out #gentoo-ml * |
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