Norman Ramsey

201 reputation

Happy hacker in C, Icon, Haskell, Lua, ML, Modula-3, Scheme, and others. Favorite language: whatever I'm using at the moment.

Good ways to get in contact include Skype chat to norman-ramsey or (less reliable) AIM to norman62ramsey

Every time I see a question about "strong" or "weak" typing, I kill a kitten.

	201 reputation	bio	website	cs.tufts.edu/~nr	visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
14 badges		location	Malden, MA		seen	Oct 15 '12 at 3:21

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Jun 6	awarded	Yearling
Mar 19	comment	What determines the path where the system searches for a file? @ChrisDown there is only one `ksh` and it is the true shell from the hand of David Korn. I have never found an imitation worth using. And `ksh` has not required `rehash` nonsense since ksh88i.
Mar 19	comment	What determines the path where the system searches for a file? @ChrisDown: luckily for me I use `ksh`, which "just works" :-)
Mar 19	comment	What determines the path where the system searches for a file? Urk! I can't believe that in 2012 we are still using shells that require to be rehashed when the $PATH changes. I wonder if there is a bash option to require it to rehash at every command?
Jun 12	answered	Which GNU/Linux distribution for a 12-year old system?
Jun 11	awarded	Teacher
Jun 11	awarded	Editor
Jun 11	comment	finding the absolute directory @Tom, yes, thanks for the link.
Jun 11	revised	finding the absolute directory link to rob's paper
Jun 6	answered	finding the absolute directory
Jun 6	awarded	Autobiographer
Jun 6	awarded	Supporter