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I want to both be polite to the OP but also agree. Writing correct C is hard, so I’m not going to knock anyone who found stuff that helps them. But pound defi

I want to both be polite to the OP but also agree. Writing correct C is hard, so I’m not going to knock anyone who found stuff that helps them. But pound defining shit to things you know via your Hungarian notion? Write some elisp. My Haskell programs don’t actually have Unicode lambda in them. Pascal strings? Yeah, that’s probably the better call, but why not use C++ or Rust or something where a bunch of geniuses got it right already?

saulpw 3y ago
Too many geniuses spoil the soup. We all see many of thousands of recipes and techniques over the course of our careers and it makes sense that each of us are continuously curating the small subset that we reach for in every project. I enjoy seeing the workbenches of other craftsmen, and nothing here looks unfamiliar. Arthur Whitney however is nuts.
mikewarot 3y ago
>Pascal strings? Yeah, that’s probably the better call, but why not use C++ or Rust or something where a bunch of geniuses got it right already? I'll be diving into C fairly heavy for the first time ever next year. I intend to skip right past pascal strings and implement/use free pascal's AnsiString or UnicodeString, both of which are reference counted, have a length (with no limit) and are guaranteed null terminated. I've stored a gigabyte in them in a few milliseconds. There's no need to allocate or free memory either... it's like freaking magic.
- mhd 3y ago
  Haven't seen that many refcounted string libraries for C in recent times, most common one is probably still the one from glib. I guess you're going to implement your from scratch, or is there some prior art you're likely to use?
  - mikewarot 3y ago
    If at all possible, I'll just lift the one from Free Pascal. Otherwise, it's yet another chore in the process of bringing MStoical (a modern port of the STOIC language) to life
dev_dwarf 3y ago
You'll find by looking at their older posts that the author has actually written quite a lot of elisp.

saulpw 3y ago

Too many geniuses spoil the soup. We all see many of thousands of recipes and techniques over the course of our careers and it makes sense that each of us are continuously curating the small subset that we reach for in every project. I enjoy seeing the workbenches of other craftsmen, and nothing here looks unfamiliar. Arthur Whitney however is nuts.

mikewarot 3y ago

>Pascal strings? Yeah, that’s probably the better call, but why not use C++ or Rust or something where a bunch of geniuses got it right already? I'll be diving into C fairly heavy for the first time ever next year. I intend to skip right past pascal strings and implement/use free pascal's AnsiString or UnicodeString, both of which are reference counted, have a length (with no limit) and are guaranteed null terminated. I've stored a gigabyte in them in a few milliseconds. There's no need to allocate or free memory either... it's like freaking magic.

mhd 3y ago
Haven't seen that many refcounted string libraries for C in recent times, most common one is probably still the one from glib. I guess you're going to implement your from scratch, or is there some prior art you're likely to use?
- mikewarot 3y ago
  If at all possible, I'll just lift the one from Free Pascal. Otherwise, it's yet another chore in the process of bringing MStoical (a modern port of the STOIC language) to life

dev_dwarf 3y ago

You'll find by looking at their older posts that the author has actually written quite a lot of elisp.