FractalLP

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by FractalLP 9y ago
I think Damian Conway (Perl Author, Keynote speaker, compsci professor, seemingly super nice guy too) wrote the recursive descent parser module and its successor module, although someone else maintains it now on CPAN.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Still using it and love it...certain services aren't working anymore though as they're being discontinued. Very stable and responsive on hardware nowhere near what the current gen Android had.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
It is actually documented though.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Thanks for putting this out there. I found some weird things as well when using it, but just figured it was me. I was hoping your notes were from 2014, but it looks like you just went through all this. Another problem with Pharo is the conf
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by FractalLP 9y ago
From what I've gathered, Cincom is really good but very expensive. There are a variety of proprietary language vendors with great products (Cincom Smalltalk, Dyalog APL, Wolfram language that is part of Mathematica), but it is a weird
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by FractalLP 9y ago
I think it's fair to compare the language+environment which is the only thing that practically matters. Smalltalk has a really nice IDE and fast VM. Ruby doesn't have a native IDE, but does well with things like Vim & Notepad+
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by FractalLP 9y ago
The difficulty for me isn't the syntax, so much as not knowing how to use the tools. Examples are extreme like other niche languages. You get either hello world or writing a web server. I'd like to see someone build a YouTube chan
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by FractalLP 9y ago
They are ok with evolving past the Smalltalk-80 standard. Think of it as a Smalltalk language + new things if they are beneficial. Cool project for sure.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Good in theory unless you need all of the data at once. There are things we do now that wouldn't have been possible (in the same sense) 25 years ago without a lot of work. We might use languages that are 200x slower, but they might be
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Check out system76 and Dell's Linux offerings. Both great.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
I'm not sure comparing an RTOS to a really old school monolithic kernal is fair. Windows wasn't designed to be like QnX. I really wish QnX was open source though and had a thriving community behind it.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
To some, that is good. Despite fancy displays, the terminal is still far more efficient in my opinion for many operations, although graphics are nice for things and those things work great on Linux
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Even though Perl6 isn't production ready yet, I'm surprised to see it not being mentioned in a group of languages with some gradual typing support as what I would subjectively consider idiomatic Perl6 takes advantage of quite a fe
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Mathematica has had pretty advanced programmer notebooks for something like 20 years i think. Jupyter definitely isn't new. The only new part would be a lot of languages (Python, Julia...etc) starting to use it.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Nice, but I just realized this is for an online version that has to communicate back with their servers. I'll have to pass.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
To echo you're trash burning comment....I have a neighbor in a piece of property adjoining my neighborhood that burns trash and leaves and pine straw every couple of months. Our entire neighborhood and houses fill up with this smoke. I
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by FractalLP 9y ago
No, I think OForth has been out for a long time. Probably not before OCaml, or even close, but still not a trolling thing. Both just use "O" to symbolize some Object stuff.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Lol, good guess,but not quite. I'm fine with regulation on things that make sense (like obnoxiously bright headlights as it seems dangerous that drivers can't see when you're driving a car and someone with a jacked up truck (
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Agreed...it took me awhile to figure out that drivers didn't have their brights on...they're just that bright. This is dangerous and needs to be regulated (coming from someone who isn't very pro regulation)
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Windows Phone. A lot of great things about the platform has kept me using it, but modern (aka bloated) websites aren't too great these days.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Yea, Scotty doesn't like Synthol in that TNG episode where he gets revived.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Can someone summarize? I could only read the 1st paragraph before ads froze up my browser.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Me 2
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by FractalLP 9y ago
People still use Forth for embedded work (there are two major Forth vendors with a definite customer base). I'd say it's quite rare in the server realm, but I know of one company doing storage stuff that has a Forth written on top
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Ising-APL(web.archive.org)
3 points by FractalLP 9y ago|1 comments
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Nicely done just by looking at the site. I'll have to check it out later.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
This site doesn't work for my mobile device at all
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by FractalLP 9y ago
I'm most of the way there now. Honestly, all I want is call, text, email, web-browser, and PDF docs.
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by FractalLP 9y ago
My biggest problem with logic programming is that my imperative brain can't make the jump to thinking in those terms. Maybe if someone could post a bunch of examples comparing idiomatic python to prolog I could start to think in those
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by FractalLP 9y ago
Different situation. That was for transient conditions. The parent comment is probably just trying to say you can't go all battery yet. I'd also like to know who is going to build enough batteries for peak load of > 150 GW. Bat

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