Rochus

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by Rochus 11mo ago
Indeed. There are even scientific studies which found that more and more people just consume (anonymous) playlists according to their mood, not caring who actually composed or played it. Spotify "helped" music to become an anonymo
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by Rochus 11mo ago
> One could argue that Modula-2 was an attempt to fix Pascal for the industry There is no evidence that Wirth e.g. ever directly or specifically rebutted Kernighan's famous paper, nor that Modula-2 was a response to it. Modula-2 w
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Minimalism is indeed the correct term (usually framed as simplicity) when looking at both, language and documentation. But at least it helped that there was always a working compiler and system, not a mere theory. > I see the several re
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> Classical musicians are not trained to talk to God. We are trained not to make mistakes. That's a good slogan ;-) Consequently, the author seems to be very concerned with where, for example, Alfred Cortot made mistakes when play
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Has beed discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033299 By Kay's own logic in this talk, Smalltalk-76/80 should also be on his "naughty list" alongside C++ and Java. Only Smalltalk-72 is s
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It's interesting that Odersky started with Modula-2 (implementing a Z80 compiler), did a PhD with Wirth, but there discovered that functional programming offered a level of theoretical rigor and mathematical elegance he missed in Wirth
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Interesting references, thanks. Moss seems to be doing the same thing as Embassy.
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Ok, I see. I spent a lot of time with .Net VMs, where you cannot simply separate await from the heavy machinery that runs it. I now understand that in a kernel context, you don't need a complex runtime like Tokio. But you still need a
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Cool project, congrats. I like the idea with libkernel which makes debugging easier before going to "hardware". It's like the advantages of a microkernel achievable in a monolithic kernel, without the huge size of LKL, UML or
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Correct. (did I say something else?)
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Yes. It's by standard a "general purpose" programming language, not a "functional" language, and it definitely corresponds with the IEEE definition for OOP (in contrast to the mentioned Rust or Go languages). I thou
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> to compensate and protect artists What a joke. If they were really serious about artists, they would have fixed the exploitative Spotify compensation scheme for a long time. > WMG’s Suno deal is putting new limitations on downloa
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Well, C++ also has higher-order functions and lambda expressions, and yet we don't call it a functional programming language.
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> The industry and the academy have used the term “object-oriented” to mean so many different things. I think we can safely stick to how IEEE defines OOP: the combination of three main features: 1) encapsulation of data and code 2) inh
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I assume it is generating Go as an "intermediate language". What's the percentual overhead of this, are measurements available? Even if Go's AST and IRs are "internal", the source is still available and one cou
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by Rochus 11mo ago
Programmers using high-level languages develop models about how programming works, particularly around memory management, type safety, and abstractions. These models don't transfer to C, so they must be "unlearned" to some de
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> Rust (in its 1.0 form) was precisely made to replace C++ And yet, the Rust we have today (which is a completely different language than what Hoare originally intended, long before its 1.0 form), requires a complete redesign and rewri
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> it's the obvious comparison to make Why do you think that? I think these two languages have pretty little in common besides a few (remote) syntactical similarities. Both languages have their merrits and weaknesses, but I don&#x2
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> rust is hardly mentioned Until the fundamental quintessence in the final minutes, which puts everything said before it into perspective.
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Right. There were even regular puzzle columns in magazines where people had to figure out what a piece of C++ actually did. This is how template metaprogramming eventually came to light, when a few very clever minds figured out how to use i
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> I don't see where C(++) can shine here [..] Go would be much easier There is a world of difference between the complexity of C and C++. C is in principle quite easy to understand (besides some syntactic quirks), similar to Turbo
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Well, essenitally a Rust fan explaining for two hours why he doesn't like C++.
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Caml is/was an FP language. OCaml has an "O" prefix because it is an OO & FP multiparadigm language.
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Well, OCaml is immutable by default, isn't it? Rust has no inheritance, but at least supports polymorphism, and ordinary bindings are immutable. There are OO languages where values of an object can only be set at construction time, or
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Oops, just noticed that I accidentally posted the same link twice. So here is the other one: http://rochus-keller.ch/Diverses/musci.io_My_first_attempt_1...
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> it just grabbed the vibe and built a whole arrangement around it. I would also be very interested to know why and how this works. I usually upload the audio of my songs, and it immediately gets everything including harmonies, structu
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Cool, convincing production. The audio quality of Suno is not there yet, but the model is very, very musical, and the resulting arrangements, melodies and instruments/voices are just great (and I say this as a musician, who was also a
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The publishers who sued Cloudflare all operate major digital manga platforms that depend on the same infrastructure they're attacking. If this ruling makes CDN providers skittish about serving Japanese content (fearing liability accusa
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The article presents OOP and FP as mutually exclusive paradigms where one must be entirely wrong. In reality, modern software development benefits from hybrid approaches. Most current languages support both paradigms, and experienced engine
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Since you are all so enthusiastic about Kay's idea of object orientation, you should take a look at Wirth's Oberon language and operating system, which is inded a message-based object system and uses a message-passing architecture

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