AndruLuvisi

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by AndruLuvisi 24d ago
You're in good company. Donald Knuth argued that programming is an art in 1974, when a lot of people were trying to call it a science. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361604.361612
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by AndruLuvisi 1mo ago
Wow, congratulations on finding this most epic bug!
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by AndruLuvisi 9mo ago
"The simple things are not obvious." Truer words were never spoken.
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by AndruLuvisi 11mo ago
Thank you both for the replies.
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by AndruLuvisi 11mo ago
Does it cover tail calls?
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by AndruLuvisi 2y ago
Name: Andru Luvisi Seeking: Information Security Officer or IT Management position Location: Rohnert Park, California (North San Francisco Bay Area) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, within California Technologies: Information Security,
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by AndruLuvisi 3y ago
The first edition of Programming Perl had a script that did this called travesty. You can download it from https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780937175644 When I was learning Perl in the '90s, I remember havi
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by AndruLuvisi 3y ago
Thank you for sharing! I didn't notice any mention of tail calls. Does it support proper tail calls?
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by AndruLuvisi 4y ago
Why do so many new and improved languages still lack tail calls?
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by AndruLuvisi 8y ago
As I recall, my goal was merely to point out that unstructured jumps are still used for error handling. I was in no way attempting to claim that the two features are the same. I'm sorry for any confusion.
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by AndruLuvisi 8y ago
Original author here. This was a handout for a computer science colloquium talk that I gave many years ago. It's fun to see this show up on Hacker News, and thank you all for not holding it to the same standard as a proper academic pap
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by AndruLuvisi 8y ago
Original author here. Funny you should mention that. I once made an attempt to do the same. You can find it at http://web.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/scheme/prog.scm One fun thing about this implementation