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by augustk 3y ago
You could use a syntax highlighting theme where reserved words are gray for instance (if you want them to fade into the background).
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by augustk 3y ago
That sounds wrong to me because then you will have duplications of the postconditions after each call. I haven't experienced any unwieldiness of having them at the end of a function.
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by augustk 3y ago
Design by contract, i.e. preconditions and postconditions, is also a good complement to unit tests. int f(int n) { int result; assert(n >= 0); /*precondition*/ ... assert(result >= 0); /*pos
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by augustk 3y ago
Niklaus Wirth is most famous for Pascal but the best language is his last, namely Oberon which is both smaller and more capable than Pascal. If you are interested in a freestanding compiler (separate from the operating system Oberon), have
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by augustk 3y ago
> That’s not encapsulation, that’s just an ugly hack. Call it what you want but it works well. Declaring a variable or function as static corresponds to "private". I honestly don't understand what you mean by "locally
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by augustk 3y ago
> How exactly does C support encapsulation? You simply declare a type as a pointer to a struct in the header file along with the functions that operate on variables of this type, and define the struct and the functions in the implementat
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by augustk 3y ago
What you call an abstract data structure is what I have learned is called a concrete data type. To my understanding an abstract data structure is a module with global (single instance) private data which is manipulated using the module&#x27
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by augustk 3y ago
> Data abstraction > Encapsulation > Polymorphism > Inheritance Note that it's the last two concepts which are specific to object oriented programming. The first two are already supported by non OOP languages
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by augustk 3y ago
The comparison price is often tiny though: "The price per unit is displayed with a font size of roughly 20 mm while the comparison price is just under 2 mm" (freely translated from Swedish) https://www.riksdagen.se&#x2F
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by augustk 3y ago
Many people want a "smaller" phone but the only options seem to be iPhone SE and iPhone Mini. Why aren't there more small models? Isn't the market economy supposed to solve this? For me the iPhone SE has the perfect size
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by augustk 3y ago
That's indeed a drawback of function call syntax compared to method call syntax where the object comes before the name of the method.
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by augustk 3y ago
And then it turns out that the order of the parameters was mixed up... just kidding.
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by augustk 3y ago
https://liamchingliu.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/intellectuals-...
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by augustk 3y ago
I think the quote below applies to both Oberon and Component Pascal. "Programming languages are like cats. It is easier to get a new cat than to get an old cat fixed. Most successful languages are ultimately replaced by upstarts. Remod
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by augustk 3y ago
The latest revision of Oberon has several implementations. Also, OBNC can be used on Windows, macOS, Linux and other POSIX compliant operating systems. Component Pascal has a single implementation which is Windows only. Oberon was created b
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by augustk 3y ago
I think it's due to a lack of freestanding compilers when the project was launched. People expected a new programming language from Niklaus Wirth but what they got was a language and an operating system, the latter which was too differ
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by augustk 3y ago
I can recommend OBNC: https://miasap.se/obnc/ With this compiler you can also write interfaces to existing C libraries without too much pain. This is achieved without any (non-standard) additions to the language.
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by augustk 3y ago
Eben Moglen is a unicorn.
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by augustk 3y ago
https://www.dyalog.com/case-studies/healthcare.htm
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by augustk 3y ago
Still waiting for Movemail support to be restored though. When using apticron it's nice to get upgrade notifications (and other local mail) in Thunderbird rather than when I invoke a command in xterm (which I find very distracting). h
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by augustk 3y ago
The crucial viewport meta element is included though: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
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by augustk 3y ago
Most languages are type-safe.
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by augustk 3y ago
Someone should make a Forthran (I wonder what it would look like though).
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by augustk 3y ago
> 100% of the tech debt I have experienced is from people doing too much rather than too little “The tactical tornado is a prolific programmer who pumps out code far faster than others but works in a totally tactical fashion. When it com
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by augustk 3y ago
> Agile done right solves these problems It's funny that Agile is always something else. It cannot be criticized because then your are doing it wrong. It's like a theory which is not falsifiable.
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by augustk 3y ago
The current version of Oberon (sometimes called Oberon-07) is about the same length though.
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by augustk 3y ago
Here are the mentioned sixteen pages if anyone is interested: https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html Oberon also has an interesting set of features to enable object-oriented programming without the syntactic sugar.
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by augustk 3y ago
Why do you think software needs to grow?
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by augustk 3y ago
> Mostly that you should always, always find and replace the longest strings first! In Notepad++ you can mark "Match whole word only" or use a regular expression with word boundaries, e.g. \bsome string\b
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by augustk 3y ago
CI = Continuous Integration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration

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