The Cyberiad is a great book for kids too. I must have read it when I was about 8 or 9 and it set me off on a life-long journey through Science Fiction...
I'm getting an import error when i try to run muntjac locally.
from muntjac.terminal.gwt.server.paste_wsgi_servlet import PasteWsgiServlet
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Muntjac-1.0.0-py2.6.egg/muntjac/terminal/gwt/server/paste_wsgi_servlet.py", line 19, in <module>
I recommend "A Fire Upon The Deep" and "A Deepness In The Sky" by Vernor Vinge. They're epic, emotional, and gripping, but also have some quite excellent hard science and future culture speculation. Also his book "Rainbows End" for something a little closer to home... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
It's actually not useless at all. The human eye reads optimally at about 70 characters per line, more and the eye has to work harder to locate and skip back to the beginning of the next line, less and there aren't enough characters for your brain to successfully pre-scan the line. So, depending on your font size it is very handy to be able to adjust the column width to display approx. 70 chars a line.
Wow, that really is an incisive article! I've been hacking AS2 + 3 for the last 7 years after being a proper JS head for the previous 4, this makes me want to get back and hacksome JS for fun again!
OOps! The following comment was in the wrong thread...
Was meant for "THIS is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me"
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Wow, that really is an incisive article! I've been hacking AS2 + 3 for the last 7 years after being a proper JS head for the previous 4, this makes me want to get back and hacksome JS for fun again!