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by 1bent 4y ago
I've always felt that Common Lisp was the Lisp family incarnation of PL/I; include everything you think might be helpful to offer a warm welcome to folks coming from FORTRAN or COBOL.
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by 1bent 4y ago
I can name three, too: Algorithms and Data Structures, Compiler Construction, and Artificial Intelligence. But their usefulness built atop a lot of math and electrical engineering. In hindsight, I wish I'd taken more history, economics
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by 1bent 4y ago
I've always found the concept of these puzzling; I find interacting with the folks in stores, even if it's merely exchanging a smile and a friendly word with the cashier, to be a joy in the day to day chores; from the first I hear
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by 1bent 4y ago
My mom learned COBOL while she was getting a degree in accounting; according to her, the language is such a clear mapping from narrative jargon usage in accounting and bookkeeping that she was using features her class hadn't covered, i
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by 1bent 4y ago
I can't seem to reach the original URL; this seems to work: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...
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by 1bent 4y ago
I love Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28poem%29
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by 1bent 4y ago
For whatever it's worth, I got repeated failures trying to install this through the f-droid client. But going to the f-droid web page (as pointed to in the above link) and downloading the (c. 50MB) apk and installing that from the down
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by 1bent 4y ago
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn this off
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by 1bent 4y ago
This feels adjacent to something I've done for a long time: I will do a task of moderate complexity by hand, typing several commands as needed, until I've done it enough to get a feel for how it varies, and only then start automat
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by 1bent 4y ago
Sounds like the system in Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo
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by 1bent 4y ago
Hence "my hovercraft is full of eels"?
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by 1bent 7y ago
I use the similar (in concept) android app Web Alert https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.webalert which pops up notifications when a chosen part of a web page changes; I've configured it to watch
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by 1bent 8y ago
I'm studying rust. In the past, I've used C when I wanted or needed to get close to hardware; even short snatches of assembler. I hope to never again have to write a non-trivial C program and make it thread-safe. Rust looks promis
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by 1bent 8y ago
The idea of owner appraises property for taxes and commits to selling at that price (or raise it and pay N years back taxes of the amount they had to raise it) was mentioned in one of the later Heinlein novels, Number of the Beast I think.
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by 1bent 8y ago
As far as I know, there's no legal ebook of G.E.B. I've this vague memory of hearing that the author regards it as a physical work of art; plus maybe the "ambigrams" were only licensed for the print edition, and the book
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by 1bent 8y ago
Thank you! That's great to hear. I'm sorry that they chose that direction; I'd much, much rather not support Windows than not support Unix's fundamental primitive for multiprocessing (and its coordinated IPC). But I do r
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by 1bent 8y ago
I don't know yet. I've heard about at least two languages that adore threads, and have issues with multi-processing. Perl6 has threads in its runtime helping its GC --- and calling fork kills its programs. I don't know yet i
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by 1bent 8y ago
I'm studying Rust, though wouldn't claim I know it yet. I believe Rust is an effort to create a language in which you can write code that's as fast and portable as C; and yet, for which, the compiler can help you coordinate a