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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
There are still grave social injustices in the world, but do you think the US (for example) is worse off than in the 1850's or 1940's? What would your ideal curriculum be?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Not underrate. There are only so many hours to spend learning. Current school systems put Math on the same footing with History, PE, foreign language...etc.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I have literally been saying just this for years when someone says "STEAM". At that point, it is just school again. I agree that History, Art, Music, Literature, Philosophy...etc are important and can't imagine a world withou
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Why I Love Perl6 – Damian Conway(blogs.perl.org)
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I've tried googling paxos algorithm a bit, but don't understand what it does and why it is useful. Could someone please explain it to me like I'm five?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I once had to work a 5-hour production issue in a Hilton hotel room. The temperature, desk ergonomics, and lack of distractions (people or things) led to nearly superhuman levels of efficiency and clarity of thought. This solidified my view
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
That is impressive!
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
That's interesting. I've seen you make these statements, but have never been able to confirm even though I've meant to. How many actual users do you have btw?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
How fast is your Perl11 project compared to Perl5 and Python?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Thanks for the information! Yea... libraries are always good (especially for math and analysis), but I find that powerful languages need far fewer libraries to get things done. APL can do something with a few characters that might commonly
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Some things are already significantly faster, but there are other common operations that are still slower. I wonder if the JIT will interfere with scripts where startup time is not acceptable?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Lizormato and some other folks have put in hundreds of performance fixes...I think these things just take time. The language might have been in development and design since the 90's, but it only just got to 1.0 or a "stable releas
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
If Perl6 is ever performant, I'll be dropping Python for a lot of Scripting uses. Perl6 is a big language, but has a lot of power and beauty.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Engineering is nothing like a trade school if you mean Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering... etc (probably not what you meant here by context, but I felt I should clarify). You basically do 4 years of math
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Very wrong I'd say. I was able to read more at 3 weeks than I could with 3 years of Spanish. Spanish might be easier than Latin, but verb conjugations and irregularities in the grammar is no joke. Esperanto gives you a detour around al
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I've been learning on Duolingo and Richardson's book. It really is simply so elegant. Easy to learn, easy to read, easy to understand, easy to speak. It just sounds cool to me as well. I think at 3 weeks in I had made more progres
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I see a lot of Python and not Prolog.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
This is an awesome book. I had no idea it was free when I bought it lol. It is also the only book that made Prolog seem pretty simple and not super confusing. I just wish I had the kinds of problems where Prolog would be performant enough.
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
How does one not use leiningen? Do you just substitute lein for the other build tool provided by cognitect? All the tutorials I've seen have you jack-in to a lein REPL. I guess I could just use the jar file from the download directly a
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Thank you! I think I've seen the "if" and "when" examples before, but it clicked better this time. I've read a few Lisp books and dozens of internet blog posts, so I know about macros and why people use them wi
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I'm apparently too stupid for you :). Please excuse my ignorance. Why can't you do something like the below? (defun swap (x y) (y x)) Then you can call it like: (swap (2 3)) => (3 2)
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
> How well does the IDE warn I've made a type error before I've gone through a long compile & test iteration loop? This doesn't really exist in a lot of dynamic languages and especially in Common Lisp, Clojure, APL, Fo
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Why not just do that as a function though? Why use a macro?
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
There is a swing example on the getting started page (or there was a few years ago). It was a one liner to have a Swing pop up say "hello world" or something like that. I'm not sure how easy it is to write actual apps that wa
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I don't think this is remotely true. Compare doing file parsing in Python, Perl, C#, Java, Common Lisp, OCaml, Ada, Fortran, C++...etc. Doing it in Python is easy...it is a bigger pain in several of the other ones. Even your Clojure ex
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I've been told that before and respect your experience even if it is very different than mine. Let's talk about writing code in Python. You write a script and either run it through your IDE or via the command line via Python pytho
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I think both are very production worthy as far as reliable code running in production. Check out the success stories on the Clojure site. One of the biggest ones to me is Walmart using it for Black Friday e-commerce. That is a good indicato
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Many lisps like Common Lisp are multi-paradigm (imperative, OO, functional). Some like Clojure are built on OO runtime and can call Java OO code, but in general heavily favor immutability and functional programming. So you're focusing
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
Great question as I'm trying to make that decision myself. I love Lisp in general and the JVM is great and ubiquitous, so Clojure seems good. The reality is that every time I try to learn it, I get stuck learning leinegen, Emacs...etc,
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by 6thaccount2 7y ago
I'm with you. Reading a text file (line by line) is the thing I do most and what I look for first. If you can't do that in a simple way, I move on. I also look at returning datasets from SQL databases, how you can make a GUI, and

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