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As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I hav
by bhb916 13y ago
As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I have no idea what a PL Troll is, though, so I think I missed the point of the entire post. Anyone care to elaborate? Google is not helpful.
- MaxGabriel 13y agoProgramming Languages Troll
- lmeyerov 13y agoYou might enjoy a new hardware description DSL from our lab: https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ :)
- lincolnq 13y agoA programming languages troll would be someone who suggests using obscure programming languages or techniques (you should use Agda here, you should write a type checker) to solve systems problems "because it's safer" regardless of practicality. Source: being a PL troll :)
- chas 13y agoThe programming language trolling in the article is building a language with strong static types controlled entirely by naming convention, specifically hungarian notation, rather than normal type declaration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation