TheoLib

26 ms·

1.
by TheoLib 5y ago
Comments are "reached for rarely and last". Whatever shortcomings comments have pale in comparison to being faced with and trying to figure out undocumented or too sparsely commented code, which, in my long experience, has been
2.
by TheoLib 14y ago
Although some geniuses have mental disorders, don't make the mistake of thinking that all people with mental disorders are geniuses or have special insights - we're just run-of-the-mill people that run the gamut of abilities and personaliti
3.
by TheoLib 15y ago
A number of programming languages allow an arbitrary range of indices for an array, including Ada, Fortran 77, and Pascal. See the "Specifiable Base Index" column in this table at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_prog
4.
by TheoLib 15y ago
I was a long-time Tcl user and loved it. [incr Tcl], incidentally, is not a play on "+=1", but "++"; i.e., [incr Tcl] is to Tcl as C++ is to C. Speaking of event loops, before Tcl had its own event loop, I wrote a select()-based event loo
5.
by TheoLib 15y ago
Have you ever read a technical article by Donald Knuth? He is not brief; he writes engagingly about low-level details. David's posting was just fine, in fact great. The posting was not that long and you could pick up the gist of it in th
6.
by TheoLib 15y ago
Why is UTF-8 not an encoding for Unicode? From the Unicode website ( http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8 ): "UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode." From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 ): "UTF-8 (UCS T
7.
by TheoLib 15y ago
I read a couple of papers on the backlash (even by expert economists) against the heavy emphasis on mathematics in economics, which, IIRC from the papers, began back in the 1940s. Basically, economists work hard producing mathematically co
8.
by TheoLib 15y ago
UCSD Pascal compiled to p-code. Other Pascals compiled to native code. The Wikipedia entry for Turbo Pascal indeed mentions that the TP-generated executables were extremely fast, which was a revelation to UCSD users.
9.
by TheoLib 15y ago
Early in my programming career, my team leader took me aside and explained how to write an effective and persuasive memo that would get through to management. It was valuable advice as the rant I had written got nowhere. And management is
10.
by TheoLib 15y ago
> What language do you think was perfect at it's first release? Algol 60.
11.
by TheoLib 15y ago
Worked fine for me in Opera under Windows XP, although I got bored with the presentation by the time I got into the 120's pages and quit.
12.
by TheoLib 15y ago
>> Still fun for me, after ~15 years of coding, 5 of them professionally. Lots of us did coding as a hobby for 10 years before gettting out into the professional world. With 5 years under your belt, you're still a junior programmer