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by PeCaN 10y ago
The plus side is that modern mainframes are really cool . It's not like they're still systems from the 70s, they are practically supercomputers with some of the fastest hardware ever made. (zEC12 was a 6-core, 5.5Ghz processor wi
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by PeCaN 10y ago
AIs can stay up all night reading blogs about the latest and greatest JS framework though. You better look out.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Let me know when we go a week without a security breach, and I'll let you know when online voting can be secure.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
If sed was supported by every platform in the world, including mobile phones, instantly deployable, upgradable, and had a more-or-less functional UI library attached, you can bet your Macbook a hell of a lot of sed would be being written.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
At risk of being extra snarky, that's called a synopsis and they're frequently used to determine if you want to read something....
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by PeCaN 10y ago
No, that would return all of them in sequence via successive calls to the returned function. It's just a ghetto generator anyway.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Except for all the other ones like Tk, Rebol, CLIM, now Qt/QML.... Seriously, if anyone thinks HTML/CSS is easy to write UIs with, try Tcl/Tk or Rebol.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I'll bite: Wrong tool for the job, just like using a scriptable remote document viewer as an application platform.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Maybe if the only thing you do is Ajax. Writing a server, a web crawler, a P2P protocol, heterogeneous OpenCL computations, etc, and you're going to need something a little more heavy-duty.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
You'd like Tcl and various Perl libraries. Mojo (Perl event loop among other things) in particular has a very nice, straightforward event flow quite reminiscent of Q. async/await looks nice but doesn't scale. As soon as you h
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Even Tcl is faster than (or comparable to) Ruby these days.¹ (Incidentally, Tcl definitely doesn't get enough love for having a very high-quality implementation.) When the stringly-typed language is competitive in performance, maybe yo
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Weird. My dogs, which are rather naughty, use Lisp on most of their projects too.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Downvoted because...? *nixes are a lot of things, but good from an OS design standpoint is not one of them. AS/400. VMS. Plan9. Amiga. QNX. Even NT. All of these date to before Linux was created. (Strictly speaking, I believe Plan9&#x2
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Most of which were much better designed than Linux, for that matter. I appreciate Linux and use it often, but it is a 1970s OS design at best.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/inspection-now-with-ad... is pretty interesting. LuaJIT uses logic programming extensively in its optimization pipeline IIRC, but I don't know of any articles on it
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Most of these are from the late 70s/early 80s, so not quite half a century. Debugging – look at Smalltalk if you don't believe me. Security – Intel i432 didn't sell well, but now we're sure wishing it had. The entire sys
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Throw in a 'u' after the 'm' and foocomuru is far from the worst brand name I've heard.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I'll check it out again! Thankfully I'm no longer working with the JVM, so I doubt I'll use it much, but it could be fun to take another look at. Oh, and OCaml is possibly getting typeclasses (via modular implicits—not unlike
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Regarding Go... perhaps the parent was harsh, but not wrong per se . I think a strong argument can be made for Go being a very poorly designed language with an excellent community. Scala certainly doesn't have high development overhea
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I suppose "amount of crap you have to type" means "low boilerplate", not "basically APL". Scala is pretty good in the low boilerplate department. I'm not a fan of Scala in the slightest, but in terms of co
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by PeCaN 10y ago
You could use C++, Ada, or Rust if you use the right pragmas. I don't use Go but I'd be surprised if it can't export C ABI compatible functions somehow.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I suspect your parent's point was that saying putting tattoos on pigs is "disgusting and shameful" is a little odd, given that animals eat each other all the time (which is presumably not disgusting nor shameful).
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by PeCaN 10y ago
On the other hand, if they do start giving people cancer or something the FDA probably would step in. The reason they don't currently is (presumably) just lack of evidence that there's a problem. It's probably worth keeping f
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Can't blame someone for finding pigs getting tattoos quite amusing. :-) You know full well that it's not a big deal and you're just making edgy comments for the sake of edgy comments. For fuck sake dude, it's a pig. If y
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Ada and Rust are both significantly easier to perform aliasing analysis on, so frequently you can get much better code. Both languages have slight overhead for bounds checking and such, but you can turn it off (at least in Ada) if it's
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I believe that's a picture of two happy people sharing a box of candy. I think you're looking a bit too deep into this one.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
(Not guaranteed to be correct) Long story short: historical accident. Modern safe systems languages like Rust and Ada¹ avoid undefined behavior unless you explicitly ask for unsafe code, and even then there aren't many _undefined_ thin
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Right?! Qt Quick is faster for prototyping, at least as flexible, _much_ faster to run, still very cross-platform.... (I like Qt)
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by PeCaN 10y ago
None, given that it essentially runs in a browser anyway (Electron). I suppose it's very useful if you have ~200MB of RAM and ~80MB disk space that you really want to get rid of. I hate Electron. :-|
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Talos¹ is a nice POWER workstation that is highly priced but still reasonable (not _that_ bad for a workstation). Currently they're getting close to enough interest for the initial production run. ¹ https://www.raptorenginee

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