binarykeats

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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   A somewhat different question is its impact on Scheme. My bet is mzscheme gets pretty popular this year.
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   The point isn't that you can't run other OSes on Mac hardware. The point is you can run OS X only on Mac hardware. This argument has been going on forever, of course. But that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. It would be nice if you c
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   Definitely. Learning the advanced features of Ruby will give you a big boost using Rails -- especially metaprogramming, which is something that few other frameworks employ.
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   I just noticed that that's where the guy pulled his example from! I also noticed how badly it supports his argument. That definition of the blog-post class also gives you accessors and a constructor, which would be more verbose to define
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   Or this: http://www.scheme.dk/blog/2007/01/introduction-to-web-develo...
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   The joke is that he implies the languages' FP orentation causes them to have clunky ways to define classes. Ruby is a good counter to that argument. It has one of the cleanest class-defining syntaxes out there. And you can actually write
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   by binarykeats 19y ago

   The clarity, or lack thereof, of the way various languages define classes has nothing whatsoever to do with the utility of functional programming. I don't think these examples could have missed the point more.