griswolf

My very first thought is that what you want to do is extremely annoying: You're grabbing the keystream away from the user right while the user is still typing. That's …

I'm writing a utility that will likely be called by a script that uses `argparse`, but should be useable by any script. The engine object constructor needs a dozen or …

I'm writing a utility that will likely be called by a script that uses `argparse`, but should be useable by any script. The engine object constructor needs a dozen or …

Yes, Smalltalk is totally OO, all it has are objects and messages. Blocks of code are just objects. The language doesn't even have loops or if tests - the same …

And your question is?

For a (ba)sh script I'd look at (g)awk, which allows you to write little functions based on a regex match. You can set (global) variables within the functions, and you …

Yep, like I said "Pastebin does not have a problem; people who abuse it have a problem and those who report on this abuse without any real knowledge of the …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_%28computing%29#Open_source_benchmarks (less than 30 seconds to use Google, decide on Wikipedia, find the Open Source section. Another minute or so to write this reply)

Pick a programming language. One language. Python is a good choice, but there are many other good choices. Then do some tutorials in that language. When you get stuck, ask …