It's definitely not a feature that wifi support doesn't exist on most tablets with Replicant, and I don't mean to sell it like it is.
However, there's a certain upside for me in the sense that I made it through the first of the lambda papers all in one go sitting at a coffee shop, something that I almost certainly wouldn't have done if I had access to the internet. There's something to be said for not having the option of being distracted.
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Fun fact: execline is built on using tail calls for shell scripting.
In bash, that would be "exec", the command that never returns, instead destroying your current process and replacing it with the called one.
In bash, that would be "exec", the command that never returns, instead destroying your current process and replacing it with the called one.
Fun fact II: DOS .BAT file language actually does the equivalent of "exec" by default. To call another .BAT file in a sub-process and return from it you need to use the "call" command. I bet I'm not the only one who got bit by this in the 80s. Very confusing.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-06-29T10:26:04Z
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I'm pretty sure I've made that mistake with .BAT files within the past five years.
lnxwalt@microca.st at 2015-06-29T16:14:52Z
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Got bit in the 80s, had learned it by the 90s. I don't think I've edited any .BAT files this side of the century.
I have edited JScript to be able to start up cygwin xterm without a console window, though!
I have edited JScript to be able to start up cygwin xterm without a console window, though!