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Crystal is really nice! Cloning Ruby syntax but making it prettier is probably one of the smartest language design decisions that have happened in a long time.

by kick 7y ago

Crystal is really nice! Cloning Ruby syntax but making it prettier is probably one of the smartest language design decisions that have happened in a long time. It's definitely gotten further on my radar in the past year or so, though I remember reading this a few years ago and finding it pretty cool then, too: https://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-crystal-fast-as-c-slick-as-ruby/ https://blog.codeship.com/an-introduction-to-crystal-fast-as... Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12223395 Seeing Lilith in (what was, I think) December was what really alerted me to the fact that it had come along so far, I had mostly thought it was dead before. Lilith: https://github.com/ffwff/lilith https://github.com/ffwff/lilith Relevant HN thread on Lilith: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860713

pjmlp 7y ago
I just wish that they would had chosen another name for the OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer) https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/ https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/
- scroot 7y ago
  The Oberon boon -- especially the 2013 update -- is something that is, unfortunately, uncommon in the field: a total description of a computing system, top to bottom. If you or anyone reading this has access to that book in epub or similar ereader format I'd greatly appreciate. It seems Wirth published only a PDF (probably from MS Word)
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    The original books were written in the Oberon System Word Processor, and you can access them as part of Oberon live documentation. For example by running A2 and starting Oberon System 3 from it. Regarding converting them into epub, I guess it is a question of copyright, even if Wirth has made the PDF versions freely available, but I am no lawyer.

by kick 7y ago

pjmlp 7y ago

I just wish that they would had chosen another name for the OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer) https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/ https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/

scroot 7y ago
The Oberon boon -- especially the 2013 update -- is something that is, unfortunately, uncommon in the field: a total description of a computing system, top to bottom. If you or anyone reading this has access to that book in epub or similar ereader format I'd greatly appreciate. It seems Wirth published only a PDF (probably from MS Word)
- pjmlp 7y ago
  The original books were written in the Oberon System Word Processor, and you can access them as part of Oberon live documentation. For example by running A2 and starting Oberon System 3 from it. Regarding converting them into epub, I guess it is a question of copyright, even if Wirth has made the PDF versions freely available, but I am no lawyer.