augustk

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   by augustk 6y ago

   Are there any Haskell articles about solving actual problems?
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   by augustk 6y ago

   Would be even better with 24-hour clock.
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   by augustk 6y ago

   We are all learning the craft.
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   by augustk 6y ago

   This got me thinking of articles by Joel Spolsky. Here is an example: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... Text-wise his articles are often very interesting though.
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   by augustk 6y ago

   Isn't it better to treat people the same way as you want to be treated. If you take the time to write to a maintainer, I'm sure you would appreciate a reply. Why not just politely explain why you wont spend time on the issue, mayb
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   by augustk 6y ago

   This comment section is not complete without mentioning Oberon, designed by maestro prof. Niklaus Wirth. First appearing in 1988 it may not be a new language but it has gone through several simplifications and the latest revision is from 20
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   by augustk 6y ago

   VM Virtual Memory VM Voice Mail VM Voice Message ... https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/VM
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   by augustk 6y ago

   The implementation can be more concisely written (and without reassigning variables) as float InvSqrt(float x) { long yl; float y; yl = 0x5f3759df - ((*(long *) &x) >> 1); y = *(float *) &yl; re
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   by augustk 6y ago

   As far as I understand, James Bond personifies the classic male upper class ideal.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    I guess a verb phrase comes up naturally when you are eager to implement a new function and think of all the steps required to calculate the result. However, a noun phrase is a more proper abstraction since the implementation may change to
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Another interesting systems programming language is the Pascal descendant Oberon which is (way) simpler than all three languages mentioned: https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
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    by augustk 6y ago

    It depends on the culture and the programming language. The advantage of using noun phrases for pure functions is that 1. only by reading the name of the function you know it's a pure function 2. a call to a pure function in an express
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    by augustk 6y ago

    When I see a subroutine with a verb in its name I think of side-effects. In my book a pure function should be named after the result it returns, so in this case I would use the name `definition' instead of `find_definition' and `d
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    by augustk 6y ago

    More or less anyone whose native tongue is not English.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Love the title of this Hacker News post. It sounds like something made up when trying to describe what you can find on Hacker News.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    If I'm not mistaken, the first example is equivalent to the following purely structured code: void * const p = malloc(25); if (p != NULL) { void * const q = malloc(25); if (q != NULL) { if (mtx_lock(&mut) !=
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    by augustk 6y ago

    They can cost several thousand dollars a pair.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Another classical example of sentinels is improving a linear search by inserting the key as the last element.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Ah, of course! That must be the reason.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    I have a year-old TV from LG. Changing channels with the numeric buttons take around 4 seconds, while using the increment/decrement buttons I have to wait only one second. Strange!
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    by augustk 6y ago

    IF newTV THEN delay := 0 ELSE (*make customer by new TV*) delay := 10 END
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Oberon, however, is a purely structured language and has no goto-like statements like "break".
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    by augustk 6y ago

    A generalized version of the while loop was suggested by Edsger Dijkstra. This loop has more than one guard and terminates when all guards evaluate to false. With this construct the greatest common divisor can be calculated quite succinctly
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Or Stack Overflow's "We are less than three people who code."
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Exactly, Oberon is now a purely structured language in which each statement sequence fully executed. There are no goto-like constructs.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    I'm referring to Oberon-07 which is the latest version of Oberon, last updated in 2016.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Oberon has three (not one) loop statements, namely WHILE, REPEAT and FOR: https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html If anyone is interested in using the language outside of the Oberon operating system, here is a fr
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    by augustk 6y ago

    These are called Abstract Data Types.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    > "well I've done this professionally since before you were born, so..." This sounds like something coming from the advanced or expert beginner: https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th.
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    by augustk 6y ago

    Or even better: $XDG_CACHE_HOME https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...