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by amno 3y ago
Why do you think they haven't evolved? Latest versions give you access to Guile scheme as an extension language, not to mention that they extended over time for quite a bit. But it is all backwards compatible so old makefiles still run
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by amno 3y ago
I don't understand this argument: "it's 47 years old" as a bad thing. If something has been around that long, does it not mean it is proof tested? The syntax of Taskfile looks more verbose to me than Makefile, which is b
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by amno 3y ago
As long as you don't distribute it, you are OK.
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by amno 3y ago
Yeah, I have never seen it before, but I saw it yesterday, and it is easily the best talk on programming languages, and programming, I have ever seen. I have posted it to /r/cpp and interestingly some mode removed it as C++ was on
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by amno 3y ago
I don't think anything of this has with trunks or branches to do. I think all said arguments are equally valid for both types of CV systems. It really is a developers discipline that decides here. All this with CI, frequent merging etc
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by amno 3y ago
That was pretty much my first thought too when I was reading the article.
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by amno 3y ago
> Extreme terseness, even when done very elegantly, makes programs very hard to read and sometimes also hard to maintain. I will definitely agree with you on this one. The tersness, which has many faces, is what I experience to be reason
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by amno 3y ago
Only to those that have a signed contract with YT, no?
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by amno 3y ago
> not to be Stallman's group of friends Nobody said that, either. > That he did a good job before doesn't mean there's not a job now that still needs doing well. And you personally know he can't help doing this job
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by amno 3y ago
President is Geoffrey Knauth; not RMS; you should have probably looked up the facts before sending unnecessary comment: https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff
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by amno 3y ago
> Social media is how a lot of political activism happens, for better and for worse. But as far as I'm aware the FSF does not have a presence here. Indeed. People in the inner circle around RMS do not use social media. They are eith
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by amno 3y ago
> What significant, tangible accomplishments does Stallmann have in the past 15 years? You believe you will never grow old? Do you wish your family and friends to turn back on you because you are old and don't have the same energy a
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by amno 5y ago
Nice! My two-minute thought on your idea, I refactored your code somewhat: ;;; test.el --- -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- Don't know if it's useful in practice, but if we had multiline
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As Powerful as Possible(github.com)
1 points by amno 6y ago|1 comments
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by amno 6y ago
Did you ever wondered where all those strange name in Lisp comes from? What is car and cdr, why they are called so, what makes Lisp so special, or why are so many parenthesis in Lisp code? A Croatian professor, Kazimir Majorinc, decided to