[gerdesj]

You might contrast the approach here with say an Engineering textbook. This manual on a particular tool (Julia) seems to imply that it is the one way to engage with an entire discipline. An Engineering textbook might mention various tools for a particular job and even endorse one over the others but in general it will start with the problem and not the solution.

That said:

$ aurman -S julia

(rolls up sleeves)

[3rdAccount]

Can you explain that last part?

[nur0n]

`aurman` is a (unofficial?) package manager for Arch Linux. The standard package manager is called `pacman`. Arch User Repository(AUR) is (IIRC) a repository of uncurated packages compatible with Arch.

To put it simply: he is implying that he will check out the book.

[gerdesj]

Yes, I should have put pacman. The book is a great resource and despite my criticism has introduced me to julia.

[3rdAccount]

Thank you for the explanation.