01-18-2017, 01:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-18-2017, 01:25 AM by LogicParrot.)
(01-17-2017, 08:07 PM)xoft Wrote: "lib" doesn't have to be a dynamically loadable library at all
Sorry, I didn't mean dynamic libraries specifically.
libX usually implies a building block for software. For instance, libpurple is an xmpp library. Pidgin and Adium are entirely different programs that use that library, as well as other libraries. This is proper use of the term.
Unless I'm missing something, this proposal is about decoupling the logic from the user interface, allowing multiple user interfaces. This is not proper usage of the term libX. Matlab has a cli and an IDE, and it isn't called libmatlab. apt-get has a ton of wrappers and it isn't libAptGet.
drmeister's questions and yangm97's chunk question are a testimony of the confusing terminology. Anyways, it's just terminology and perhaps it is subjective. Sorry for nitpicking.
(01-14-2017, 04:54 AM)drmeister Wrote: I'd like to teach my daughter to program and a Common Lisp...
Offtopic: I think functional languages are not a good first step. Try Scratch or https://www.playcodemonkey.com/