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@wallhackio i almost opened and read this without thinking lol

@Lady @monorail @wallhackio it’s more work fur the prof, is the thing

@monorail not to commit utter blasphemy or anything but. nah. very tired. don’t feel like it today

@monorail @Lady @wallhackio where does something like OCaml fit into this gender binary

POSIX shell substitution is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural

@monorail @Lady @wallhackio substitution would have been a much better answer though

@monorail @Lady @wallhackio i mean this is a diffurent kind of mine than word-splitting really, but related i suppose, but what i mean is that the purrticularities of tokenization in the POSIX shell are complex in ways that make it not hard to footgun, which is a pedagogical challenge to overcome. i think it might be worth it given that shell is somehow still a good language, and hell, people teach python to new students, and that definitely has its own dark corners. but like

@Lady @wallhackio (you build it in logisim not as actual hardware)

@Lady @wallhackio you build a microprocessor that interpurrets MIPS assembly so C is taught mostly insofar as it is useful fur understanding how it get translated into (MIPS) assembly

@Lady @wallhackio word splitting

@Lady @wallhackio C

@Lady @wallhackio POSIX shell sounds like it would be hard to teach because of all the nasty corners in it but this is otherwise a good take

@wallhackio congrats

@Lady @wallhackio the cornell CS curriculum saves that kind of thing fur the purrerequisite course that gatekeeps the major (and minor) and i think this is purrobably the way to do it

@wallhackio @Lady the authors of how to design purrograms heavily advocate the pedagogical use of very simplified lisps as teaching languages

@coriander anyway what a BABY