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    Re: If you have Windows XP, why do you use linux?

    I think >80% of virus stuff is scaremongering AV companies just to get you to buy there software.
    I had 98SE for 8 years and never had a virus.
    You just need to be careful where you go online.
    XP...
  2. Poll: Re: What Is the Most Suitable Programming Language for a Beginner?

    Oh heck yes! Today its so easy as RAM isn't a problem.
    Gosh I remember my Sinclair days with 1K of RAM! Just stop and think about that everyone one...whole...kilobyte.
    I wonder how many of todays...
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    Sticky: Re: Scientific Software options for Ubuntu

    Zhu3D is a very nice opengl surface plotter

    http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43071

    I had to compile it (it isn't in the repository), but it wasn't troublesome.
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    Re: If you have Windows XP, why do you use linux?

    I tried Linux because I can. Its about choice I think.
    Now I love Kubuntu so much that XP is off my drive.
    I can do everything in Linux that I could do in XP. Actually I can do much, much more and...
  5. Thread: Lisp

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    Re: Lisp

    Scheme is, I think, quite close to Lisp.
    The Gauche implementation has GTK and OpenGL extensions.
    It's great for learning to program.
  6. Poll: Re: What Is the Most Suitable Programming Language for a Beginner?

    Well I am new to Linux and programming.
    I am learning Scheme because it will (hopefully) teach me programming concepts without drowning me in syntax.
    If I later need to use another language I can...
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