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by bmn_ 12y ago
LR parsers like yacc are obsoleted by Earley parsers, which Cox apparently didn't know about in 2010. Quoting < http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/earley-parsing/what-and-wh... : The biggest advantage o
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by bmn_ 12y ago
Since the page is not dated, I wanted to find out whether the challenge has just been released currently or not. Inspecting HTTP headers gives a hint: Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:33:36 GMT
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by bmn_ 12y ago
Source filters are bad because you get a string and parse it yourself and then get it wrong for edge cases. What if Perl already parsed a piece of source for you and handed you a data structure instead? That fixes the greatest shortcoming.
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by bmn_ 12y ago
This. The dumbass in the article doesn't know about packaging and made his life needlessly difficult.
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by bmn_ 12y ago
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Symbola font distribution terms: "In lieu of a licence - Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be installed, embedded, opened, edited, modified, regenerated, pos
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“2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use”(fosdem.org)
126 points by bmn_ 12y ago|149 comments
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by bmn_ 12y ago
I think dwheeler is trying to get this fixed/standardised in POSIX via the Open group.
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by bmn_ 12y ago
I love this. It could be one of the stories the [Young Lady's Illustrated Primer might tell Princess Nell]( http://enwp.org/The_Diamond_Age ) when she ventures forth from Castle Turing.
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by bmn_ 12y ago
There's stuff in TTY that does not belong in core (table rendering, logging), and there is a great lack of features that is available by default in [MooseX-App]( http://p3rl.org/MooseX::App ): bash completion, typo detec