WilliamLP

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by WilliamLP 16y ago
So it should be used approximately never in real code.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
That could be worked into a great programming language misappropriation-based comedy routine! Also the one about the guy who said "overriding" when he meant "overloading" is usually good for a laugh.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Is "square: (x) -> x*x" more modern syntax, or simply more functional? It surely isn't a new idea, maybe as old as Lisp, and a number of other new languages are explicitly imperative.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
This is what, attempt number seven hundred and fifty two to create a mainstream language that encourages functional programming? Incidentally, what's the most successful recent language that tries to make functional programming terser by no
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Can you show these for any other language? In a way that's not arbitrary and self-selecting. I suspect you could have sampled Java web startups vs those still using C, Perl and CGI back during the time of Java's explosive growth and s
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
It has grabbed and maintained complete domination of nearly all performance sensitive code in games and desktop software, for nearly a generation now which is an unprecedented reign in computing history. That's a pretty good start to me.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Wow, an MMA analogy on this site? Who are Seth Petruzelli, Roy Nelson, and Matt Mitrione then?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I take a Devil's Advocate style sometimes where I make a case and then learn by someone shooting me down in a logical manner, and when that happens I change my mind. (And that is one of the great pleasures of life). I am being sincere here.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Please define "successful." "Profitable", compared to using another language. There are many objective ways this could be shown that wouldn't be vulnerable to being shot down by a non-falsifiability engine (i.e. any data I don't like
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Using anecdotes to prove a point is precisely what I mean by cherry picking. I know that Lisp projects can be successful, but is there some systematic way to show that they're in fact more successful? Google and others throw money around at
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
My question is not about art, but about who is using Lisps to make fantastic profit, against competitors trying to solve the same problem, in a way that would not be possible with more mainstream languages. If very few, it's not interesting
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
For me and many others to take interest we need more than "can write", we need a "better" in there, in a way that translates to "more money".
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
We're all (almost) using some subset of functional programming. (Even working in something like PHP.) We're also almost all not using Lisp, Haskell or even Scala. Lisp had brilliant ideas that became mainstream and widespread; that is not c
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> It's very unfortunate that modern programmer culture has taken so long in America to catch up with what Academia has been arguing for years: functional programming matters. This kind of rhetoric is found on all programming discussion
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I'm waiting for more than a few cherry-picked examples of people who talked their boss into letting them use it, and academic papers, to be interested. Clojure start-ups using it as a competitive advantage to make money competing against ot
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
So women don't think you're a real man. And the solution: throw away expression of the personality you like and want to be and respect, turn all interactions with women into a game, and carefully craft yourself and all your presentation wit
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> It is actually. Read the array.c and zend_hash.c code. It's only a constant time operation if you're not interested in the difference between whether a hash key actually exists, or whether it exists and its value is set to NULL. That'
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I believe this author just doesn't like PHP and doesn't consider that some of these "weaknesses" are actually strengths in the eyes of many. Some of the points are fair, but never show-stoppers, for the domains that PHP is used in . You're
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> You're mistaken if you believe that "discipline, enlightenment, and intellectual invigoration" are at odds with being an interesting and attractive person. I know, but they're pretty much perfectly correlated with me getting what I wa
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I don't think you should claim "demonstrable" and "future" in the same sentence. "Theoretical" or even "promising", perhaps. The most performance intensive problems in the world, when they have competition, are very much still solved in C a
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Thanks for succumbing to my charms and delurking, haha. Really though, I appreciate the thoughts. You could say I'm making up for lost time since I did take a couple of years completely off of programming to do a few things, including a lot
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I think there are different kinds of leadership. There is the kind you describe. Then there is the kind where you are someone who can't be ignored simply because you are technically better than others around. When I'm in an amateur opera, I
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> Do you enjoy any sort of recreation, horsing around, pulling pranks, play acting, telling stories, fantasizing, scheming, etc? Yes all of that, in a way that isn't appealing to women. The kind of humour I enjoy includes dry self depre
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> If you have attitude that you're not going to make any changes to yourself in order to land women, than you're not going to land women. I know! Such would be the definition of insanity and all that. That's why my future plans involve
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
It's posts like this that make think "forget women". I mean seriously. I would want a relationship where I can be myself, and don't have to craft every bit of what I say according to some stupid protocol when it annoys the fuck out of me to
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
I had my first dating experiences in life online, and then I met a couple of girls "normally". (Relationships are few and far between for me, and I have to work at getting one and it takes a year or two and finding one is by far the hardest
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Write a game. ASCII Tetris or Pac Man or Space Invaders would be fine. Whether that is a simple afternoon activity or a somewhat epic undertaking might tell you something about the language.
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> The iPad measured at 6.2% lower reading speed than the printed book, whereas the Kindle measured at 10.7% slower than print. Wait a minute here... 6.2% slower is proven statistical significance, yet 4.2% slower is almost certainly ra
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
Did anyone else think this was going to be about the Higgs boson?
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by WilliamLP 16y ago
> where do you see the problem? 1. iOS isn't just iPhone, but includes one of the fastest selling devices in tech history. 2. low-res for the iPhone isn't going to cut it either anymore. 3. Apple's customers are precisely the people who

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