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by astrobe_ 3y ago
You may be ready for Forth [1] ;-). Strangely, the Wikipedia article apparently doesn't put forward that Forth allows access both to the parameter and the return stack, which is a major feature of the model. [1] https://en.w
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
A difference between Discord and Matrix(/IRC since it was brought up in the comment as well) is that there isn't a single client because they are open protocols. If a person doesn't see a usability problem, it might simply be
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> If your intent is to have your code reach the maximum amount of people to benefit them This amount of altruism is rare. More likely it's just the desire to be acknowledged by others. It's ok, but it's also worth reflecti
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Or let people refill their bottles at the shop/mall like from a beer keg. But it probably would be a hassle to deal with for the seller, so it won't probably won't happen.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Just like there is "decision fatigue" [1] I believe there is "naming fatigue", and naming are one of the three great problems of computing, as everyone knows. I'd say that at least point-free prevents naming fatigue
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I don't think anyone claims that. The claim that one hears more often is the AI "understands" what it talks about.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Rumors say that the priestess in this temple was having visions because of natural local fumes [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia#Scientific_explanations
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> FORTH = because the machine Chuck Moore was using wouldn't accept a longer name; he wanted to call it "Fourth" Additionally, he wanted to name it "Fourth" because it was targeting the fourth generation of compu
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
That was the thinking in the Forth community as well; no absolute frontier between language, library, OS and hardware. But Ingalls was still wrong, because what actually made that recipe work at that time is that they were programming again
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Ok, thanks for the correction.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
This is basically an argument from authority (or popularity, maybe a bit of both), doubled with an ad hominem attack.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Declarations , not definitions. Declarations go into object files as symbol names for the purpose of linking. You can have multiple declarations as long as they are the same (or if they are not they define different things in C++ due to ov
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Won't work for people who write under "altered state of mind" conditions. You'll have to show them a fake page featuring the post, store the actual post in some sort of draft box and ask them if they really want to post
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> It is often true that to make the language simpler you must make its implementation more complex. True, although it is a last resort thing to do for me, or it has a very good benefits/cost ratio. IOW, where we disagree is the asse
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Yes, you were more subtle about it, calling him inexperienced rather than stupid. I see little difference between the two forms of ad hominem and that is what I wanted to point out. I said that because that's how I see myself doin
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Sorry about that, I usually try to refrain from making negative comments on HN. I was sort of mislead by your comment in the thread that you did not make this (didn't get the joke), and thought that the author was unlikely to read that
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> I wouldn't call people stupid I don't think I did such a thing. > Do you have any concrete [proof] that the Forth implementation with compile-only words is better? What are its benefits? Yes I do : a Smalltalk-style forces
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
This [] pair for quotations is pretty common in "modern" concatenative languages. But you actually don't need them that much, at least in Forth. It is not a solution because they have misidentified the problem (due to lack of
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I've wondered for a long time why the dot was chosen for this instead of the question mark. Using the dot instead of the the semicolon to end definitions seems more natural (as far as "natural" makes sense in an RPN language)
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> Previously predominant links to Scandinavia were replaced by ones with France William the Conqueror actually was a distant but direct descendant of Rollo [1], a viking who invaded Normandy. The influence of Scandinavian language was qu
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I don't see where?
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Yes, it would be like aliens saying "hello". Trying to anticipate what this supposedly foreseeable future will be, is futile.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
I saw an example the other day that escapes annoyingly escapes my mind now, as it has been sort of overwritten by the "why the heck do some people name Makefiles with a capital M!?" pet peeve. But I'd say a bit of everything
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
This is partly because, in my opinion, some "best practices" are superstitions. Some practice was best because of some issue with 80s era computing, but is now completely obsolete; problem has been solved in better ways or has com
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
To me that's 4th generation languages, RAD and such, with new cloths. They have their uses, but they also have the same drawbacks.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
> This actually parses a subset of Pascal and translates it into another representation. Perhaps you can call it an interpreter. I didn't read TFA thoroughly, but traditionally a compiler that translates not to machine code but into
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Don't really know, I was responding to the analogical version. But I'd say that a EULA that requires you to watch/see ads is something different in nature than usual EULAs that just cover legal-and-good-relationships things.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Depends on where you live. In my country refusing to sell is illegal, unless the company has good reasons.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Oh, my bad. I confused somehow the assignment for an equality test.
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by astrobe_ 3y ago
Maybe indexing starts at 1 ?

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