Rochus

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And Luau.
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Ada and Wirth’s languages (including Modula-2) represent fundamentally opposing schools of thought regarding language design, despite their shared ALGOL-60 heritage and partly related syntax. Ada is in every aspect a much bigger and more po
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> feels like a proper 21st century C language with Wirth's design ethos. While Odin is a modern and capable language, it belongs to the "C-alternative" school (alongside Zig) rather than the "Wirthian" school (Pa
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Ada is superficially related with Pascal syntax, but definitely not a Wirth language (whether directly nor in spirit).
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> about rust. Is it better than, for example, oberon, or it's descendents? It's a completely different language with different focus and features. "better" depends on the requirements you want to solve with the langua
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Great music survives everything ;-) That's such a good idea with this old equipment. And you can see that the guy tried hard not to laugh. And surprisingly, the arrangement sounds great. Hilarious.
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This is all just for the record monopolists, regardless of their claims to act in favour of artists. Otherwise there would have been a just compensation scheme for services like Spotify for a long time. This is just the most recent scam by
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previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182695
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This is exactly right, and the "Man-or-Boy" benchmark hits the worst-case scenario for libstdc++ specifically. The optimization fails here. My "copy-by-value" comment refers to the ownership semantics. Since std::functio
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The benchmark demonstrates that the modern C++ "Lambda" approach (creating a unique struct with fields for captured variables) is effectively a compile-time calculated static link. Because the compiler sees the entire definition,
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While I appreciate the authors optimistic take on Suno as a tool for empowerment, I believe his analysis misses the grim economic reality of the music industry as it has existed for the last two decades. He draws a distinction between &quot
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This is a very interesting language in the lineage of Esterel from the same lab as the Lua programing language.
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previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182695
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see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167135
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Thanks for the link, will have a listen.
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Wow, I wasn't aware that Mojo doesn't support OO today. I did some research and found that Mojo allows you to import and use existing Python code by running it through the standard CPython interpreter. This is how they claim &quot
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see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094193
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> Not to mention they also demonstrated object-oriented programming Since 2023 we can study the source code of Lisa (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/lisapascal ). Lisa’s system and applications were writt
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When companies mandate tools regardless of effectiveness and punish engineers for not using them, it's governance failure dressed as innovation. The distinction between "real products" (solving actual problems) and "hype
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Steve Reich is "minimal music", played on classical instruments. I very much appreciate all other composers/improvisers you mention, but again they would distract me too much and require my full attention, barely leaving anyt
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Thanks for the hint. Just listened to their "Sacred white noise" album on youtube. The music is definitely interesting, but even less suited for me to get into a programming flow (still too much going on, and soooo nihilistic). Th
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The fact that three revisions were needed to tone down inflammatory language could raise questions about impulse control in leadership decisions (regularly prioritizing ideological positions over pragmatic stability). This is notable given
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Sounds interesting. But why does the author think this is music for programming? In my opinion, the music is not uniform enough and there is too much going on, which distracts me. When this music is playing, I listen to it and stop programm
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Oops, just noticed that I deleted too much for the edit. Before "; for them" there was originally: ". The third group are the active music lovers, which are often musicians themselves".
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see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094193
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> when it is something else, it is thrown around as proof they aren't as good as C for systems programming That's not my position, and not my argument in this thread. My argument was, that Wirth created his own world and neve
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I'm not sure what you're getting at with this recurring assembler argument. The Oberon system and also AOS/Bluebottle are full of inline assembler and SYSTEM tricks with pointer arithmetic, etc.; the Lisa OS is also full of a
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Not sure why this is downvoted. The comment cuts to the core of the "Intelligence vs. Curve-Fitting" debate. From my humble perspective as a PhD in the molecular biology /biophysics field you are fundamentally correct: AlphaF
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I'm not advocating for C (I wouldn't implement an Oberon/Pascal/Modula inspired C replacement otherwise). C was mostly adopted by industry because it came with Unix and had to be used by the many Unix-based workstation v
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You said that "One could argue that Modula-2 was an attempt to fix Pascal for the industry". By 1981, the C/Unix team was no longer a "rogue research group" in a closet; they were the architects of the dominant indu

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