The Goldfish Chronicles

I’ve been increasingly bored with the idea of learning about another new language [for about 3 years this was not boring to me. I’d read Fortran and Cobol books in the belief they’d have something interesting in them]. The last book I recall reading about a new language was the Ruby book. Since then D, elastiC, Velocity, Jelly have all not really felt like something new and radical that I want to pick up and learn about.

So maybe it’s time I started to go back over the things I’ve always meant to learn more about and use. Like Expect, I read up on the book on this but never had much of a use for it, though in Java I might’ve [actually there is a JExcpect which I think I downloaded, so obviously I never kicked myself into using that either]. Also there is Scheme. They released the classic book online for free for that recently [I know, a language, but also a religion that I’d like to sniff into].

Another is Docbook. I want to write a book, or at least an online resemblance of one. So I need a tool to write it in. I spent about 20 minutes putting together my own custom XML structure and then gave in, went to look on Safari for the DocBook book, couldn’t find it, thought it might be in my free book repository, wasn’t, googled in shock, found where OReilly had released it. So reading through it. Good god it’s huge. So much to yearn. I think I’m drooling.

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