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by billsix 10y ago
I'm currently writing a library/book dedicated to the subject, including compile time state, compile time I/0, and a compile time test framework in 9 lines of code! Tests are specified as part of the definition, run at compil
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by billsix 10y ago
Another way to remember is that "library" and "libel" both come from "liber", meaning "book" in Latin
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by billsix 11y ago
Why is context needed when the first sentence is "Here it is 2016 and it's been almost 11 years since I started Mercurial." ?
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by billsix 11y ago
The project as a whole is not GPLv2. From http://www.mono-project.com/docs/faq/licensing/ The C# compiler is dual-licensed under the MIT/X11 license and the GNU General Public License (GPL). The tools ar
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by billsix 11y ago
> Also, Mono is licensed under the LGPL and Xamarin's interpretation of that license precludes using the runtime in a closed-source program without a alternative license from them Citation? I've never heard anyone interpret th
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by billsix 11y ago
I found it ironic that he used a quote from Alan Kay to attempt further his point that "object-oriented programming is bullshit"
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by billsix 11y ago
What changed in the subsequent 6 years?
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by billsix 11y ago
I believe "doomed to succeed" is a reference to language evolution and popularity; discussed by the Haskell community http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.lang.schem...
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by billsix 11y ago
I like that they open-sourced their engine. https://allura.apache.org/
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by billsix 11y ago
I'd be curious to hear RMS's stance on the issue, but I'm guessing he would agree with Oracle. http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...
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by billsix 11y ago
A car salesman matched a competitors price, and rounded down two dollars. He told me he is offering me a better price than the competitor. I said, "it is true you are beating their price, but not in a way that matters to me". Di
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by billsix 12y ago
Lisp's eval/apply is so short and dense that it can fit on a chalkboard. Its also easy experiment with language design by making slight changes to the intrepeter.
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by billsix 12y ago
I've never seen effective version control of Word documents, but plain text formats such as LaTeX work as expected with git/mercurial/subversion. Very important for works with multiple authors.
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by billsix 12y ago
Yet he mocked the existence of a open source project not that long ago https://harthur.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/771/
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by billsix 12y ago
I'm glad they never made a sixth movie in that series. Although I would hope I'd get a cameo. -Bill Six
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by billsix 12y ago
> As I vaguely recall, even Plain Old Array accesses take logarithmic time on real machines. How does adding an offset to a pointer and referencing that data require logarithmic time? >. However, if we don't use bignums, they&#x2
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by billsix 12y ago
How much should they get paid? Who are these great people and where do I find them? How much oversight should they be given without restricting them? How much should I trust the teacher vs a few vocal parents? Vs the silent majority? The
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by billsix 12y ago
Thank you. Much respect, sorry if I was harsh.
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by billsix 12y ago
The question to which I responded did not inquire about performance nor about portability http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
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by billsix 12y ago
As long as the stack frame is still active, the local variables are still alive and valid. So you could pass a local function as a parameter, but you could not return it. I think jwz called these "downward funargs". GCC supports
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by billsix 12y ago
>I'm not aware of any other language that lets you write inline Asm, procedural, OOP, and functional-style code, all conceivably in the same source file. Gambit-C.
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by billsix 13y ago
I thought the unix quote on simple vs correct is regarding things like "what should the kernel do when a process is processing a system call like read/write and needs to handle a signal. should it return an error of type EAGAIN,
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by billsix 13y ago
since when are lambdas a basic feature? since scheme in the 70s? since smalltalk-80 in 1980? since ruby in 93? since Haskell 98? since c# in 2006? if I got in my delorean, hit 88 miles per hour, went to Sun Microsystems in the early 90
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by billsix 13y ago
its only been, what, 7 years? give them time
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by billsix 13y ago
apparently my sarcasm is not appreciated. chitptle has a great business model. and for fast food they are pretty efficient. I've been a pleased customer for 8 years. on every transaction, I assume that they made a profit.
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by billsix 13y ago
I short companies like chipotle. I invest in twitter and snapchat. that is where value is.
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by billsix 13y ago
how would a user interact with such a system?
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by billsix 13y ago
do you play music? do you have the ability to play his pieces? or to compose either at or above his level? when I was learning piano in the late 90's, I bought classical sheet music for training, and pop sheet music to play for friend
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by billsix 13y ago
> Maybe that is the reason why Clojure has growing industry adoption while scheme does not what is "that"? the lack of tail call optimization?
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by billsix 13y ago
but would the metacircular evaluator fit on a chalkboard? http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

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