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title: My first post and introduction
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author: Suguivy
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I will start my first post talking **my adventures in the computing world**
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and **what I will post here**.
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## My adventures
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I have been always interested in computers and computer science, and that
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field is one of my main motivations in my life.
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### How I started
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I started to programming at 18 years old, when I could have my first decent
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computer, and started to make small videogames with *Lua* and *Love2D*.
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One year after I have started to open more in this world, programming in
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*C* and *C++* and programming other type of things.
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Later I read more than a half of the [SICP](https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html) book. Is a fantastic book with
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which I learned a lot of fantastic stuff like:
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- Functional programming.
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- *Scheme*, a lisp dialect and a beautiful language.
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- Recursivity and iterativity.
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### Moving towards Haskell and functional programming
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Months after that, I became interested in *Haskell*. It impressed me
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because is a language with a beautiful syntax and very expressive. Here
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an example of the [quicksort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort) algorithm:
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``` haskell
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quicksort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
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quicksort [] = []
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quicksort (p:xs) = (quicksort lesser) ++ [p] ++ (quicksort greater)
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where
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lesser = filter (< p) xs
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greater = filter (>= p) xs
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```
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I started to learn it slowly, and nowadays I'm still learning some things,
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and using it for my projects.
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### Meeting Rust and Python
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While I was learning Haskell, two languages caught my attention: *Rust* and
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*Python*.
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*Rust* is a systems programming language (like *C* and *C++*), but with lots
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of nice things, and it has not the flaws that the other two have.
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It called my attention because it has many things in common with Haskell,
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like the `match` statement and the `enum`s, that are very similar to
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*Haskell*'s `data`.
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I started to learn it but I got bored. In that days was having a difficult time,
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I had little motivation, but *Python* caught my attention because it is a
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language in which you can program quickly a lot of things. And, to be honest,
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it is a really easy language to learn.
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Nowadays I returned to *Haskell* and I can program in it with enough ease.
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## What I will post
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I will post any thing that goes through my head, manly programming posts, and
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many of them using my loved one *Haskell*.
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I also thought about doing *chapters* or *series* of posts about things like
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**Implementing a Lisp**, or **Tasting Haskell and functional programming
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for newbies**.
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Also I think I won't post too often, because making a post takes time, and I'm
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not a fan of writing, and also I'm involved in some projects and in my college
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degree.
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