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> Hans Boehm built a Java library for this in the 1980s and 90s Hans is such a prolific programmer that he wrote a Java library before Java was even invented?
by __alexs 4mo ago
> Hans Boehm built a Java library for this in the 1980s and 90s
Hans is such a prolific programmer that he wrote a Java library before Java was even invented?
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- tomjakubowski 4mo agoThe article has so many of the hallmarks of LLM writing, naturally it will have some hallucinated factoids too. "What that gives you: [bullet list]", "What got ported: [bullet list]", "foo: x, y, just z" Boehm's Java library has copyright dates of 1999 and 2001-2004. https://www.hboehm.info/new_crcalc/CR.java https://www.hboehm.info/new_crcalc/CR.java The whitepaper was only published in 2005: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567832604000736 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156783260... I have a dimview now of the blog, and of this Swift port of the library, indeed.
- dimview 4mo agoThank you. Of course the dates were out of order. The Java library (com.hp.creals) is 1999-2004, paper is from 2005. Unfortunate price of LLM-assisted development. Corrected.
- nxobject 4mo agoWell, you know, you go into your Smalltalk-80 workstation for a hack sesh, and an all-nighter later you end up with an implementatkon of Swing...