chromatic

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by chromatic 9y ago
Perl probably shouldn't be in that list. It's arguable that Larry has had any direct influence on it for at least ten years, perhaps 15.
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by chromatic 9y ago
That's close to what happened. The first relevant version of compiler tools were called PGE/TGE, written in PIR and based on the notion of attribute grammars and grammar engines. The first versions of NQP grew out of those. I beli
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by chromatic 9y ago
Are you open to taking patches to that blog entry?
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by chromatic 9y ago
Why does it have something called 'say' instead of something more intuitive like 'println'. Why is the Unix command `ls` not `list-directory-contents`? Sure, it's a lot more for everyone to type all the time, but
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by chromatic 9y ago
This argument is disingenuous. The same feature is available in any language with a decent FFI (must support loading an arbitrary shared library, marshalling/demarshalling data between languages, and invoking functions in the shared li
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by chromatic 10y ago
I have no idea what your run-on sentence is trying to say, and don't want to bother trying to figure out what you're trying to say either. This may subvert your point about the effort "most programmers" put into readin
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by chromatic 10y ago
Plus, if anything, going from "most people" to "most people who use the language" has moved the goalposts closer, not moved them apart (which is what people complain what one "moves the goalposts"). Certainly
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by chromatic 10y ago
What matters when talking about a language is the people who use it as a whole. Seems like that argument has moved the goalposts from "most people" to "most people who use the language", and it's still not clear w
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by chromatic 10y ago
> Obviously what's "readable" is not constrained to what some people find readable, but to what most people do. That's hardly obvious to me at all. Leaving outside language syntax debates, the important readability co
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by chromatic 10y ago
Pugs was, by my count, the third or fourth attempt. I can think of at least two in the Parrot repository long before Pugs was a thing, and I believe one of those had a fork/rewrite before 2005.
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by chromatic 10y ago
What's the marginal propensity to consume and the velocity of those dollars?
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by chromatic 10y ago
EG part-time partners don't have a legal vote in the direction of YC. Are "part-time partners" employees?
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by chromatic 10y ago
If people are provided a minimum lifestyle what will they do? I don't think anyone really knows if it will be a golden age of entrepreneurs and self improvement. If only there were a group of people with sufficient money they never h
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by chromatic 10y ago
Keep in mind two things, with regard to Modern Perl : * it's a book for novice programmers, people with perhaps six months of practical programming experience * it's a book for novice Perl programmers, people who don't hav
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by chromatic 11y ago
If the JVM and the Java teams essentially stopped talking to each other, I would definitely consider that to be some form of collective decision making representing an overall shift in focus for the projects. That's more akin to what
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by chromatic 11y ago
By logical extension, this would mean it could handle any given dynamic language. Not only by logical extension! One of Larry's primary goals was to "let any language use the CPAN", through Parrot. Running Perl and P6 on
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by chromatic 11y ago
It originally started as a VM that could handle Perl 6, but then decided it wanted to focus on being a general VM for dynamic languages. I think this is misleading; one of the original goals for Parrot was language interoperability, esp
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by chromatic 11y ago
a few things that had been running reliably for a couple years in his stack They stopped running reliably several years ago and I stopped caring.
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by chromatic 11y ago
I disagree with the suggestion that Perl is not built with a consistent philosophy. That philosophy isn't "build from a minimal set of orthogonal features", but it's a coherent design philosophy: http://modern
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by chromatic 11y ago
In rough English, it uppercases the first letter every word in every element of the sentence array.
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by chromatic 11y ago
I don't know if Perl programmers have been separated from the other scripting languages too much as not to understand that there are different mindsets out there. My impression is rather that the P6 marketing has traditionally focuse
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by chromatic 11y ago
why not have a flat 15-20% income tax for everyone instead - rich or poor? Because the marginal propensity to consume is very different between "rich" and "poor", to start.
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by chromatic 11y ago
I look at it in two ways. First, Perl is installed on millions of machines by default, with full access to the CPAN--still one of the largest repositories of freely available libraries, with Perl's backwards compatibility and testing o
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by chromatic 11y ago
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the Wikipedia Bureaucracy so dull to navigate....
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by chromatic 11y ago
I have no plans to use P6. It's probably years away from having the ecosystem sufficient to support what I personally want. I have no plans to update the book to cover P6; I think it does what it needs to do as it is now.
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by chromatic 11y ago
That Wiki page is so outdated and misleading, I'm tempted to ask for it to be deleted altogether.
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by chromatic 11y ago
That page looks almost six years out of date. I believe the project to which it refers has bitrotted.
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by chromatic 11y ago
In my case, I find the Moose ecosystem much preferable to almost any other OO system I've used. Better multidispatch would put Moose over the top. The last time I looked at Python 3, Perl still had much better Unicode support. In parti
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by chromatic 11y ago
I made a detailed study of all this last spring I think that's part of the problem--there are too many post-hoc justifications for why things happened the way they did that ignore what actually happened and why people made the decisi
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by chromatic 11y ago
Are you thinking of this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982742 (I find particular amusement in rereading Moritz's post in that thread.) I would doubt anyone who claimed to be unbiased with his history

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