_zagj

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   by _zagj 3y ago

   > We should expect all our languages to be safer. My prediction is modern C++, and even (looking at C23) modern C, will be evolved, albeit gradually, to offer enough of Rust's safety so that on a cost-benefit analysis of either up
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   Sigh I was going to write a defense of PHP, but since it's flagged, I won't bother.
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   Meanwhile MSFT, a monopolist megacap, was allowed to buy Activision-Blizzard?
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   I wonder how many people listened to the complaints of this couple and just wrote them off as paranoid loons. The allegations read like classic "gangstalking," which isn't supposed to exist.
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   By "should have been" I meant striking the balance of simplicity, power, and ease of learning that Smalltalk does. R5RS is simple and powerful (even more powerful due to macros), but not really usable, since it doesn't ship w
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   > except in broken languages, of which the only notable one is shell All binary messages in Smalltalk (messages with selectors consisting of punctuation, like !@+-, including punctuation sequences like "+-&|", if you want)
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   by _zagj 3y ago

   > One of the eight biospherians was Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (ucla). Research by Walford and others had shown that restricting what animals ate could significantly lengthen their