Abscissa

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by Abscissa 12y ago
If it compiles, it must run without several entire classes of errors.
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by Abscissa 12y ago
All this theoretical bottleneck debate, but it really boils down to this: If you're writing frequently-run code in Python/Ruby/JS, or any such highly-dynamic-at-runtime language, then chances are very good that your CPU, memo
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by Abscissa 13y ago
Actionscript has basically no error checking. It'll check for syntax errors and that about it - every other error manifests as a strange bug or "why the F * is nothing happening!?!" Then you spend an hour tracking it down
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by Abscissa 13y ago
That's only a valid comparison if you're really big into polyglot programming AND believe that all languages are great in their own special way.
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by Abscissa 15y ago
Figures this would get downvoted for not blindly buying into the propaganda: The syntax is clearly not C-style, that's just plainly-apparent. And just because a language is natively-compiled doesn't make it a systems language.
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by Abscissa 15y ago
"[Issue 9] is a C-like language...It is intended to be a systems programming language..." What? Google's Issue 9 is neither a C-like language nor a systems language.
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by Abscissa 15y ago
I never cared one bit about grades my entire life (despite constant prodding by teachers and parents), and my grades ended up all over the place. Consequently, my GPA was pretty bad (Not that I remotely remember what exactly it was). I've n
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by Abscissa 15y ago
You've set the forground colors for this text entry box and the Submit button to black. That causes the text to be invisible for those of us with light-on-dark systems. Just leave the text color alone for those and it'll work fine for every
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by Abscissa 16y ago
I may be biased because D has been my favorite language for more than five years now, but, well, it's good enough to have been my favorite language for more than five years now.
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by Abscissa 16y ago
That would have been written "The langauge I wish Go had been"
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by Abscissa 16y ago
I got into D at least 5 years ago because I was a C/C++ user looking for something that has comparable power and, well, wasn't so horrible.
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by Abscissa 16y ago
100Hz != 100MHz
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by Abscissa 16y ago
Manual memory management is always possible in D, and if you really need to, the GC can be ripped out.
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by Abscissa 16y ago
Yes, they have. It's called D: http://www.digitalmars.com/d It doesn't have an automatic translator, but it's design does follow a rule of "If a piece of C code is dropped into a D compiler, either it compiles with the same semantics, or