Roboprog

28 ms·

1. 241.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Now write a unit test for the inline block of code within the longer function which would have become the nested function??? You write the test (where any is needed) for the outer function. Edit: the start of the discussion was about using
2. 242.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   A bit of our “heritage” in programming destroyed by the C family of programming languages Pascal, like Algol, had nested subroutines for decomposing longer operations without leaking the details. Nested functions is one of the things I like
3. 243.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Apology accepted.
4. 244.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   As well they should:-) But IE 11 has been given a stay of execution until 2025 I believe. And sadly most of my users are still on it (government and healthcare)
5. 245.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Too bad no wasm on IE 11 Where it would be needed most
6. 246.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Bank tellers went through this in the 90s. You could tell when they swapped out their terminals for Windows. No more machine gun F key navigation, hello “hunt n grunt” cruising with the mouse.
7. 247.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Amos was such a happy child :-)
8. 248.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   Indeed. I’ve googled for this research, and there isn’t much of it - just something that “everybody knows”. The best, recent thing I found was a study done about 5 years ago or so (I think) by a fellow at UC Davis, and the data were pretty
9. 249.▲
   by Roboprog 8y ago

   I can’t thing of anything useful that MS added since Windows XP. Going from 16 bit cooperative to 32 bit preemptive in the 3.x to 9x change, useful. Going to multiple accounts with permissions in the 9x to XP change, useful. Rearranging the
10. 250.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I love how that platform puts SQL into s expressions, with all the capabilities this implies. Not that I’ve actually touched any Lisp since the 80s. Back to work in Java / Hibernate hell...
11. 251.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Pro: they ask Con: they ask Still, “how about tonight?” Is preferable to “right now, conference call be damned “
12. 252.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Median $127K on that search, FWIW Well over $100K, but that won’t go as far in San Jose as it would in Sacramento :-)
13. 253.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I don’t understand why you got voted down. I don’t have the enthusiasm for Java I did 20 years ago (the alternate for employment in Sacramento was largely C++ back then, mind you), but I think what you said is accurate. Personally, I want t
14. 254.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I find the whole library/framework existing functionality thing to be vastly overrated. There’s a certain minimum you need, but once you hit it, OK. For me, what I liked about Ruby when I played with it years ago was how expressive an
15. 255.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Kotlin runs on the standard JVM, not just android.
16. 256.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    One of the most spot-on comments I’ve read in a while. I laughed out load when reading the part about talking to the actual / real users in the doc. We pretty much never do that, but by God, we’re doin’ agile, ya know.
17. 257.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Thanks for the tip. I have been using Ramda’s R.partial() function a bit, as well as some in-house stuff (e.g. - to generate 0-arity event handlers), but this would be a very helpful feature, particularly once IDE recognition becomes widesp
18. 258.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Small population that would expend the effort for something expected to be of little benefit at best. Some people can’t seem to function without static (global?) types though, and this works for them.
19. 259.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I wish Typescript had support for partial function application, since I use that much more than “Executioner” classes. Actually, I’ve moved away from OOP in general in my JavaScript, only as a last resort. (Not going to put in long comment
20. 260.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Several cities / regions in CA have their own electric utilities Few big issues with SMUD, MID or TID
21. 261.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Title is a bit click-bait-y :-)
22. 262.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I think most people, certainly me, who would be looking for a Pascal compiler are trying to avoid C++ like the plague. It’s funny when you read about languages like Rust and Go basically trying to undo decades of C-induced damage, reinventi
23. 263.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Yep Now you have 2 problems Is the cliche But now it’s Dart instead of GWT
24. 264.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Irony: “literate programming” means pretty much the opposite of “self documenting code” (AKA - undocumented code) First write the documentation, then embed relevant bits of code next to the relevant discussions, then have a special compiler
25. 265.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Literate programming has next to nothing to do with “English like grammars” or “self documenting” tongue twister symbol table names. It has to do with writing documentation, and embedding little bits of code to do what the documentation des
26. 266.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Well, it’s a little shorter if not a lot shorter
27. 267.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Gotcha. Didn’t know about TC39 for the ES language concern distinct from web / browser stuff.
28. 268.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    Thanks. I suspect the internals of “===“ in this case could look for the presence of a closure data pointer on a Function or some such hack. Anyway, I’d probably use an actual prototype on something (with “methods” and) hundreds of instanc
29. 269.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    That’s actually a pretty good question. It’s probably in the spec, which is probably long :-)
30. 270.▲
    by Roboprog 8y ago

    I would be interesting to see exactly how much stuff is copied by the various implementations in such cases. There are obviously some stack or other data frames that have to be captured somehow, but the code itself should in principle be so