Milestone: Maia's First Email
Posted by Eitan Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:33:00 GMT
I mark a milestone today: my six year old daughter Maia wrote me her first email message. So far she's using webmail. I think she's ready to step up to Evolution.
I need to do some thinking before introducing the next thing. I was thinking the shell is something everyone should know. But I'm increasingly convinced that our current situation of heterogeneous everything is kind of crazy. I want a homogeneous everything. Like my good friend Sam says: I have a lisp machine.
We have one language for talking to the computer in the shell. Yet we have another language for talking to the computer when we write programs. I don't want to be in a situation where today I tell her: this is how you get a directory listing: ls. And tomorrow I'll say: I lied, the way to do it in ruby is Dir.entries("/home/maia")..
Anyhow it wouldn't hurt for her to know the shell.
