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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
If the algorithm is to be distributed over multiple processors capable of executing different instructions, it is best represented as dataflow. (Dataflow algorithms are directed graphs, with data flowing along edges between vertices, each
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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
Visual C++? Or Visual Basic?
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Smalltalk is no more visual or tied to GUIs than C++ is. There's at least one variant, GNU Smalltalk, which doesn't have an IDE. Squeak is a rather nice IDE, though, and makes a good point in the way it blurs the boundary betw
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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, and I share your views on Jenny McCarthy, but there are plenty of health, environmental, and economic reasons to oppose GMO food, none of which are the issue here. It's alleged that lead and cadm
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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
This? http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng... I had to move my head with every line I read. (The PDF is somewhat easier on the eyes.) Not a single reference to aviation, the contex
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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
You should have the whole context comfortably within view, which means all the characters in the lines above and below should be in the same 10 degree visual block, i.e. about 80 characters. The exact value of 80 characters might be because
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It isn't just a historical accident. There's a good reason why they were about eighty columns. It's because the eye can't comfortably scan much further. That's why pilots are recommended to scan horizontally no
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It's actually two board games. There's also Waddington's Go: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7097/go-international-tra... Which proves Francis McCabe's point. Before naming something, it
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Not yet. Please be patient. I still have to add the ability to define new data structures and types before it's a complete language. I'm currently working on that. Then I need to make the code more robust. I also have to
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by DonaldFisk 11y ago
Clunky compared to what? Other visual dataflow languages (Prograph and LabVIEW) use additional constructs for iteration and conditionals, complicating their syntax. The original plan (as described in the papers) required several differe