Keith Kim’s Blog

Ubuntu: turn off - show window contents when moving and resizing

Posted by Keith under Unix/Linux

$ gconf-editor

apps > metacity > general > reduced_resources –> check off

Google Go language - install and run

Posted by Keith under Golang

It’s too bad that it currently only supports Linux and OSX.  (I use Windows and Sparc Solaris.)  I think it’ll eventually support other platforms, but for now, it’s just Linux and OSX.

Platform

I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.10 on VMWare, assigning 40GB HDD and 1GB RAM.  Ubuntu 9.10 is much faster than previous version.

Compile and Install

First, installing Go.  Create ~/bin/ directory and add that to PATH.  Then follow the instruction on http://golang.org/doc/install.html I didn’t have any issue at all.

Code Editor

After compiling Go lang, in $GOROOT directory, there are documents, samples, and syntax highlighting files for a few editors.  I use VIM, and installed $GOROOT/misc/vim/go.vim file.  Copy this file into ~/.vim/ directory.  And edit ~/.vimrc file:

let mysyntaxfile = “/home/MY_USER/.vim/go.vim”
syntax on
set nu
set ai
set tabstop=4
set ruler
set laststatus=2
set showmode
set expandtab
let loaded_matchparen=1

(First two lines are for go lang.)

Documents, Tutorials, Sample code

In $GOROOT/doc, the documents — tutorial, document on Go memory, specification, FAQ, Go Course (day1-3) PDFs, effective go, and sample code are all there.  No need to download from the site separately.

… More on Go lang later.

Google’s Go lang vs. “Brand X” language

Posted by Keith under Golang

I just found this very interesting blog posting — comparison of Google’s Go language and this “Brand X”.

http://www.cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

Golang

Posted by Keith under Golang

Everyone probably heard of Go lang already by now.  I read many other people’s experiments with it — some are good reviews and some are bad.

Played with the examples on Ubuntu.  Compiles fine, up and running in no time.  Too bad it doesn’t have Windows or Sparc Solaris versions yet.

Anyhow, I need to test further, but syntax looks great, threading model looks good, garbage collection looks fine too.  Need to play around with it more…

Lisp

Posted by Keith under Lisp

Revisiting Lisp again, after reading on and played around with Clojure a bit.

I tried to use Linux 100%, and now I’m trying to use Windows 100%. :-)  Here are some info I found for using Lisp on Windows.

1. http://www.daansystems.com/lispide/

Simple, and the best IDE for Lisp beginner
2. http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html

SBCL, no IDE with this.

3. Lisp in a box = emacs+common lisp+SLIME, on WIndows

http://gigamonkeys.com/lispbox/#download

4. Allegro CL Free Express Edition

http://www.franz.com/downloads/

This is a free version, but I think it’s a bit overkill for Lisp beginner.  Free version has a limit, e.g. heap size 60MB max.

5. Scheme
http://www.plt-scheme.org/

6. Use Clojure plugin Eclipse

7. Use Clojure plugin for NetBeans

http://enclojure.org/

8. [ADDITION] New Lisp

http://www.newlisp.org/