bhurt

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   by bhurt 14y ago

   I think this talk is relevant: https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61
2. 2.▲
   by bhurt 15y ago

   Probably ease of implementation. You can just grab the Boehm conservative GC, slap it in, and bang- you've got GC. You can even add GC this way to C/C++ programs. Unfortunately, Boehm has draw backs- because it's getting no help from the
3. 3.▲
   by bhurt 15y ago

   The C standards committee has been broken since C99 introduced long long, thus silently breaking conforming code. How do you print out a size_t, portably, without losing information? The standard says size_t is an unsigned integer type,
4. 4.▲
   by bhurt 15y ago

   I wished I lived in the authors world. A world where you don't have to maintain the code you wrote- or worse yet, someone else wrote. Where you could declare a program "done" and walk away and never have to revisit it. A world where "mos
5. 5.▲
   by bhurt 16y ago

   One reason I know we're not in a bubble: because everyone is saying we're in a bubble. For you young whippersnappers who were too young to remember the 90's, a bubble is a manifestation of irrational exuberance- with (almost) everyone sayin