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by NOGDP 7y ago
I'm not trying to prove the article wrong, my point is only that it's not well written and filled with baseless claims such as: > J's approach to iteration is vastly better than other languages.
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by NOGDP 7y ago
Are you trying to address anything I've said, or just ranting for another reason?
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by NOGDP 7y ago
> The point isn't that (x + y) wouldn't be a statement in other languages, rather than point is that in languages the reader of the article is most likely to be familiar with, you would use a for loop to solve the problem, and
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by NOGDP 7y ago
It is wherever '+'/(equivalent function) overloading is a thing - C++, Haskell, Rust, etc. There isn't even a good reason to think of it as a loop, because for different types it may not be a loop at all.
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by NOGDP 7y ago
There's not much to be ingrained after you learn how for/while loops work, and there's not much in the way of learning how map/filter, or overloaded functions work. I wouldn't even consider the overloaded '+&#x
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by NOGDP 7y ago
> Looping - performing a computation repeatedly - is what programs do. In most computer languages, all loops are expressed by one of two statements: > Do While - repeat a code block until a condition is met > For - repeat a code bl
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by NOGDP 7y ago
The first quote is in bad taste, though the context is not as bad, and the comment as a whole lead to a pretty interesting exchange. I see nothing wrong with the second quote, it is not intentionally made to offend, it's part of a reas
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by NOGDP 7y ago
Except you've made both of those quotes up... I can't find any similar comments in this thread by searching for parts of the quoted text you provide. OP is complaining about responses to this article on hackernews, provides zero e
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by NOGDP 7y ago
This kind of comment is what makes discussion difficult. You're just alluding to some kind of indecent opinions which offend(?) you, without pointing out anything specifically. I have no idea what you're talking about. All I gleam
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by NOGDP 7y ago
Organisations mandating use of a specific OS is one thing, but most people would be able to get by fine using Linux personally.