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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Deleted it months ago and don't miss it even slightly.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
It's viable, but certainly not designed for that sort of thing like Perl, Python, Powershell, Awk, & Bash. Many of those languages have built in niceties for scripting such as Perl's myriad of command line switches and well, e
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I'm with you here. It's not that Haskell isn't a good language, but that scripting languages are really good at scripting :) Haskell does have a good REPL and being able to distribute a binary when finished is really nice.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
As someone living right in recluse territory, I'm constantly terrified when going into a closet to get clothes...etc, even though I see black widows all the time. Any time you're at the gas pump or in your garage, look around and
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
As far as the smartphone angle you mentioned, it makes for a decent analogy, but isn't entirely relevant unless I'm being too specific. Computational power was never the problem getting to the moon. The analog computers were basic
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Thanks! My brain seemed to think the R in Reduced Instruction Set was for real time ...whoops! Neat project regardless.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I wish that the QNX OS was open source and free as in beer. How far away is this from being as usable as I hear QNX is?
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Ah sorry. I assumed a 500+ company with bloated and old-school IT like my own. I shouldn't have assumed that :).
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
In Arkansas, our roads are nothing but potholes. As soon as they are patched it rains (or as we say in the South, torrential downpours) and the entire road is a pothole again. Very annoying. It's always wet here and humid, btw. At leas
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
What does your company do to where they're chill with trying to ship p6? Just open-minded?
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Awwww. Now I'm less interested.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
If anybody could get past the HN hug of death (Slashdot effect), can they summarize this up? The title is intriguing.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Who is mbs?
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
One of the Smalltalk books goes over how it is idiomatic to write lots of tests and this is where TDD came from.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
F# type providers just makes it easy to do certain things like data analysis on .CSV files right? Or does it link back into the IDE & debugger in some way I don't know?
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Pharo has something called the playground or something along those lines which is basically a fully editable REPL and editor.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I'd say def not rare, but it never feels very common to me either relative to the posts on similar technologies like Lisp, Prolog...etc. So I can understand the parent comments view.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Yayy! More mentioning of ST (and Pharo) on HN. I'm just a beginner, but am slowly learning. So far the IDE is the only one I really like as it is one with the language rather than an entirely separate entity.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Thank you for the link!
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
My grandmother is a ham that is heavily involved in her ham club. Everyone was older, but polite. Of course they have different political views, but they're not a bunch of creeps, although there are some weird hams for sure. I knew one
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Paul Graham, Alan Kay, Rich Hickey, SICP guys (Abelson, Steele?), Larry Wall, Guido...etc.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
It makes it easy to learn the hardware because it has a simple processor and makes it dirt simple to access. Windows on the other hand runs on modern chips and it isn't easy to run assembly without 3rd party software and graphics is al
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I find Fortran pretty pleasant for scientific work (what it was designed for) and take pleasure in knowing it hasn't changed a whole lot over the years F70, F90...etc.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
It's not just easier to read for Julia programmers. Any pythonista can mostly read Julia without significant issue. They're both high level and syntactically similar enough. I know Python is a lot more OO, but when you're jus
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with Mathematica and it is available for free on Pi, but some people will take offense at closed source proprietary software and for good reason. Some things in the Wolfram language are so amazing
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
Agreed. I'm a python beast, but really struggled with Assembly language in school. I'd have been better off with a ZXSpectrum earlier in life so I could've learned hardware. IMO high level languages (as insanely useful as the
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
ZXSpectrum Next is exactly this. An old ZXSpectrum computer that is newly made with more RAM and in a much better package. Complete with lots of games you can get. I think they're always out though....not sure if we'll ever see mo
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Ask HN: Buried by Technology and Software Complexity
1 points by 3rdAccount 8y ago|0 comments
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
It does look cool. Without looking at details I'd guess slow if it's running in the prolog interpreter instead of the native compilation SBCL does.
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by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I've gone through it before, but it has been ages. Maybe I'll check again...thanks.

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