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by breadbox 11y ago
Since this is all about obscure languages, it maybe worth pointing out here that the original INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL. On one or two occasions I asked Don Woods to clarify some feature of the language that was incompletely
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Pumping the Primes(bit-player.org)
78 points by breadbox 11y ago|3 comments
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One for Diogenes(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
32 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Last week I would have sworn the same was true of cars.
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by breadbox 11y ago
There is nothing wrong with supporting lots of platforms, but those #ifdefs need to be encapsulated in wrappers functions (or macros). This is a classic example of premature optimization, actually. You use one or two #ifdefs directly becaus
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Un justified(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
No, they aren't. That may be what you're hearing, but I promise you that's not what the intended message is. When someone says "This town has a crime problem," they're not saying "The town itself is commit
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Meet the Julians(bit-player.org)
4 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Fast money, slow data(bit-player.org)
11 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Disastrous Ambiguity(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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Music Streaming for the Rest of Us(charlespetzold.com)
4 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Another example would be Fish Fillets. The GPL release of the source included all of the assets, even the voice-acting sound files (though only available in Czech). Info at http://fillets.sf.net/ , released source code at
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Traffic Jams in JavaScript(bit-player.org)
80 points by breadbox 11y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
I doubt you have to dig that far down to find a reason. Just think of the kind of person that gets described as "humorless". Then imagine marrying one of them. Women aren't thinking about their hypothetical future children; t
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by breadbox 11y ago
Or maybe you need to set aside the shell scripting and start learning a different language? "Things like inverted trees, functional programming, [and] polymorphism" really have no analogue in a shell language. Start working in C++
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by breadbox 11y ago
Immediately after executing the loop body, you mean.
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by breadbox 11y ago
No, it's the head of a for-loop. (The statement or block that follows this macro invocation becomes the body of the loop.) The third clause of the loop head guarantees that the loop can execute at most once.
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by breadbox 11y ago
A cool idea, though the it's in need of some better examples to show its true power. Several of the examples can be accomplished with the traditional C preprocessor. For example: #define with_open_file(fp, path, mode) \
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by breadbox 11y ago
I heard a minor variation of that, in which the button just kicked the playback volume up, exploiting the effect that louder music often feels "better".
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by breadbox 11y ago
No, they aren't going to win. The public leaderboard tests people's submission on toy data. Typical for contests like these. The real contest will be determined using realistic data, which is kept secret until after the contest is
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by breadbox 11y ago
Not sure exactly what you're referring to (didn't find "m1" or "m2" anywhere in the paper), but ... When a monstar leaves the counter (due to a SUB lever emitting a bunny), the monstar has to proceed to the are
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by breadbox 11y ago
Except of course that that would make it completely boring to play, so why would you do that? This, I can't help feel, is kind of the point. It's the part of the game that's encoded socially rather than algorithmically th
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by breadbox 11y ago
Yeah, but leaving out "quote" is like leaving "if" out of C.
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Chinese Telegraph Code (before there was Unicode)(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Almost, but not exactly: The article describes moving through two doorways, the last one taking the person back to the original room. That's different from passing through a doorway but never entering a new room. If the "doorway e
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by breadbox 11y ago
In my experience, that's not the case. People (or at least people not primed to take a tricky-logic-puzzle stance) think they understand the problem just fine, and quickly give the wrong answer. Asking about it afterwards (once you get
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by breadbox 11y ago
Do the keys on a keyboard instrument count? "The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing the organ in the 3rd century BC." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ#History_and_developm
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by breadbox 11y ago
It does feel that there has been a recent boom in new compiled languages (languages that compile to native code, I mean, instead of whatever virtual machine people currently think is hot). One or more of these might well wind up displacing
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by breadbox 11y ago
> It's sentences like these that make me think the author has completely neglected the technical and financial difficulty of game development. I tend to disagree. If the creators (and/or the players) thought it was important to
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by breadbox 11y ago
Indeed. I think this is the key takeaway from that whole passage: > These numbers are made up, of course

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