Rochus

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by Rochus 1y ago
(2016)
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by Rochus 1y ago
And everyone with relevant fintech project experience knows that new projects on the existing core banking systems are started all the time and that COBOL continues to be a relevant language (whether we like it or not).
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by Rochus 1y ago
The claim was " No one's starting new projects in COBOL. "
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by Rochus 1y ago
One of the most significant new COBOL projects in 2025 was the integration of a new COBOL front-end into the GNU Compiler Collection. There are indeed quite many new projects being started in COBOL, though they primarily focus on modernizat
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by Rochus 1y ago
If you redefine language, anything is possible.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Also Smalltalk is still in wide use; ML is also used; there are even many PL/I applications in use today and IBM continues to give support.
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by Rochus 1y ago
In any case, the author claims that each of these languages is "dead". There is a "Cause of Death" section for each language, which doesn't allow for another conclusion. By listing languages like ALGOL, APL, CLU, or
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by Rochus 1y ago
How can COBOL be a "dead" or "mostly dead" language if it still handles over 70% of global business transactions (with ~800 billion lines of code and still growing). See e.g. https://markets.businessinsider.co
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by Rochus 1y ago
(2014) A passionate essay, which overstates its case, relies on anecdotal or selective evidence, and employs rhetorical strategies that weaken its objectivity. The strongest points are its identification of fallacious reasoning in OOP advoc
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by Rochus 1y ago
Soldering SMDs manually is a nightmare, and this guy did it on a grand scale. He even made board corrections with crazy wire connections. He must have really good eyes and very steady hands. Amazing.
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by Rochus 1y ago
> I didn't see anyone mentioning the C programming language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43632645 https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by Rochus 1y ago
I think that would be achievable with plain PUC Lua bytecode; it's actually just a jump. The same for default function arguments; the VM doesn't actually care how many arguments the caller pushes on stack, and providing default va
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting, apparently the source also includes a (modified) version of the PUC Lua VM. Why don't they just generate bytecode for the existing VM and leave it as is (unless the modified version somehow would significantly increase per
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by Rochus 1y ago
Or Luon: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting, but seems to ignore Max Mathew's digital synthesiters from the fifties and sixties; there were even more notable digital synthesizers in the sixties and seventies predating the Micor and Qasar.
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by Rochus 1y ago
What C version does it support (besides K&R C)? The repository seems to include version 2.2; when was it release? Does the compiler any optimizations?
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by Rochus 1y ago
Does the Mac - like the Lisa - also require cycle accurate emulation of the hardware? I spent some time with lisaem and made experiments with Qemu, but the Lisa OS makes assumptions about hardware timing which cannot be met by the latter.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting, thanks. I've seen that there is a kind of IR; does it support the same IR code to run on different targets? Is SIMD part of this abstraction?
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by Rochus 1y ago
Not actually the response to my questions I expected. I don't know AsmJit and so far assumed it just makes assembler programming a bit easier.
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by Rochus 1y ago
> It's like an extremely lightweight LLVM Is it? Does it have e.g. an SSA IR and an optimizer pipeline? Can I use it as a backend for my AOT compiler? Does it support C calling conventions? Does it support cross-compilation? If ye
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by Rochus 1y ago
The original author of Csound, one of the great music programming languages in the tradition of Max Mathews' MUSIC. RIP.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Is stack overflow still representative (given the sharp decline over many years)? They might have to update their measurement method.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Applying the term "holocaust" to a hypothetical population decline of chickens is a form of false equivalence that trivializes the human atrocity; this choice of words is designed to be provocative and frame the debate in a biased
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by Rochus 1y ago
And there is a brand new book with more than 700 pages about how to build a debugger by the same Author with a lot of additional information (see https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger ); I recently bought it and can highl
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by Rochus 1y ago
I'm a paying user and I use Perplexity permanently, and it is very useful for every topic I use it for. While ChatGPT and other AI models have incorporated web search capabilities, from my humble point of view, Perplexity maintains di
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by Rochus 1y ago
The article presents both sides and rather states a pessimistic view on the Xlibre project's chances of success.
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by Rochus 1y ago
I didn't have that much press when I forked Qt and started LeanQt ;-)
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by Rochus 1y ago
I don't know how much research the author/publisher of the article did. They claim on their site that "Linuxiac is an independent media platform that publishes the latest news from the Linux world and open-source software. Fo
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by Rochus 1y ago
> i am all for sunsetting X11, move it to the attic, abandon it, whatever. Despite its flaws, X11 has key strengths and its abandonment is not without controversy. The same developers maintaining Xorg also created Wayland, so there mig
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by Rochus 1y ago
> The continuation of X11 is likely not why he was banned. Well, according to the article, Weigelt claims he was censored and that the ban was an attempt by Red Hat to eliminate competition and push for the adoption of Wayland; this ac

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