Pacabel

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by Pacabel 13y ago
Implementing one high-level language (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) via translation to another high-level language (JavaScript) does not make the target language an "assembly language" in any sense.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It has been "around the corner" for far too long now, especially when it comes to real-world usage. It's perfectly understandable that people would try to find alternatives in such a situation.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The "JavaScript as the assembly language of the web" mentality seems to be taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever with any sort of real assembly language. Many of them don
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Rightly or wrongly, Crockford is seen as somewhat of a "god" among the JavaScript crowd, due to his "JavaScript: The Good Parts" book and his work on JSON. Within that crowd, he's seen to posses an extremely high am
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Persona was launched in July 2011. It has gotten a fair amount of publicity in that time. Yet the adoption rates among websites and users are still very, very low. I just don't think that there's any significant demand for this pr
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I'm not sure that the "need" you're talking about is a practical one, though. Maybe it's an ideological "need", at best. More than enough people and websites seem to be getting by just fine without using P
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by Pacabel 13y ago
"Simplicity" is not measured in terms of key presses or characters. The "if timeval:" case may contain fewer characters, but it's less explicit. Being less explicit opens it up to greater ambiguity. Ambiguity is a f
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I'm not sure if I'd say that it's the Python community that has encouraged that practice. I think it's more likely just a bad habit that some people may have picked up when using PHP or JavaScript, and mistakenly continu
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by Pacabel 13y ago
A list of the known companies would be useful, rather than just having to search.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
This already exists, in the form of Android. Is it ideologically perfect? Maybe not, but it's more than good enough for most people. Android is widely adopted, it's available on many different devices, users can install their own
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by Pacabel 13y ago
What is that you mean by "Youtube of Flipbooks"?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Maybe another question to ask is, "What exactly are you trying to achieve with this product?" The "Youtube of Flipbooks" tagline makes no sense. It's not really clear what this is trying to express. The term "f
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by Pacabel 13y ago
If you're using it seriously and for a significant period of time, the time and effort spent initially learning a programming language ends up becoming a smaller and less relevant factor. What ends up mattering most is how productive y
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It wasn't harshly worded at all. A phone is a communication device. Being able to quickly and easily add the contact details of other people is a very basic and critical feature to have in a phone these days. If such functionality is l
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by Pacabel 13y ago
When a potential user expresses a very legitimate desire for some missing functionality, it leaves a very bad impression when that user is then told to add the functionality himself or herself. It also doesn't help to refer to that ver
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Do the StatCounter stats match better?
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Is there anything particularly remarkable about this release? The release notes make it sound like it really offers nothing more than some bug fixes, and very minor new functionality.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
But Slashdot today is also a mere shadow of what it was in 2001. At least some of the decline in readership over there has been due to a gradual increase in politics-oriented submissions being shown on the front page, rather than technology
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's really disappointing to see this sort of "reasoning" used so often these days. Just because somebody points out serious flaws or problems with one technology does not automatically mean that he or she thinks that other,
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Don't underestimate the effect that the Perl 6 disaster has had on the reputation of Perl as a whole, even if Perl 6 is a rather different language in many ways, and generally promoted by a separate community. Even if the Perl 5 commun
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Does it really matter who he is? I don't think it does. It's the message that's important, not who is expressing it.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
It's disappointing to see unnecessary and unjustifiable censorship of perfectly legitimate comments like that. I think it has become more of an issue in general as the discussion of software projects has moved away from mailing lists a
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by Pacabel 13y ago
"Scripting" is a pretty vague term. If you mean quickly writing one-off programs, then there are many languages that are just as good as Perl, if not significantly better. It's pretty clear that Perl does not hold the promine
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The concepts themselves aren't difficult to understand. It's just that some people go out of their way to use uncommon terminology that ends up obscuring what they're trying to say, rather than making it clearer.
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I wouldn't say so. "Function" is a pretty common term used to refer to somebody doing some specific task. There's an obvious correlation between an employee tasked with a carrying out a specific role or action, and a chu
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by Pacabel 13y ago
The words you listed tend to have well-understood meanings in numerous contexts aside from mathematics that are still related in some way to the software concept. Some of those words are very likely non-mathematical words that were adopted
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I'm not sure that Java programmers are necessarily the best judges of good naming conventions. I've personally witnessed several of them immediately mention "gonads" when first hearing the term "monad". For mos
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Both "object" and "method" are common words with very obvious parallels between the programming language concepts and similar real-world concepts that are familiar to basically everyone. That's what makes them good
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Perhaps the problem is that there's no good real-world equivalent of a "monoid" that basically everybody is familiar with. Most people are inherently familiar with the concept of a "container", in the sense of somet
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I'm not going to claim to have a better name at this moment. However, I would like to think that there's somebody out there who could come up with a name that describes the concept sufficiently, while still using pragmatic C++-sty

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