This is the first post on the blog. If you're reading this, it means everything is working correctly.
Why a blog?
There are multiple reasons:
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I want a place where I can write about things I am interested in: programming, statistics, free software and whatever comes to my mind.
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As I mention on the landing page, writing is a skill that has always escaped me. I have always seen writers as people who master something I can barely understand, they play with the words, with meaning and structures. As a reader, I am just a spectator, but I would like to have at least a fraction of that ability. I do not mean to be the next Cervantes, but I would like to express my ideas confidently.
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Dijkstra talks about something very interesting in «On the foolishness of "natural language programming"»:
As a result of the educational trend away from intellectual discipline, the last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language: many people that by the standards of a previous generation should know better, are no longer able to use their native tongue effectively, even for purposes for which it is pretty adequate.
This quote might look whiny, pretentious and biased, but I think it is very difficult to go against it, and as a believer that mastery still matters, I want to use this blog to master not only my native language, but hopefully English too.
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Why not?
I hope you like this blog and the following ones, thanks for spending your time reading my nonsense.
Todo lo mejor,
Juan.