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Bel is an interesting language. I really like the first-class macros, but wrb and rdb are kinda silly. As abstractions that get optimised into something more se
by tmtvl 2y ago
Bel is an interesting language. I really like the first-class macros, but wrb and rdb are kinda silly. As abstractions that get optimised into something more sensible I suppose they're fine, but yeah, modern filesystems don't really do single-bit reads and writes.
- sctb 2y agoI wouldn't diss those functions on the basis of modern filesystems. I would diss them because you could write a shorter bel.bel with rdc/wrc instead and, IMHO, without making the language less self-specified (since 'chars contains opaque character values from the host system).