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by claystu 11y ago
Retiring the A-10 probably has more to do with trying to find a reason for the F35 than any real issues with the A-10's performance, which is disturbing given the real concerns being raised about the F35's capabilities.
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by claystu 11y ago
This is a serious question: what's the point of programming in assembly if you don't want to control the registers? And what do you do if the assembler does a poor job of register allocation? If you hand optimize it, you're b
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by claystu 11y ago
Can you point to some blog posts on this subject? I would love to see what's out there.
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by claystu 11y ago
Tiobe can't be right. It has Assembly ahead of Ruby and right behind JavaScript. What??? Redmonk looks flawed too. I would expect GitHub to create a major sampling bias in favor of smaller, throwaway projects, and in fact, a quick sear
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by claystu 11y ago
Your wish has been granted. It's called C and it's been around since the 70's.
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by claystu 11y ago
Oh I'm a big fan of NASA and think we ought to spend a lot on space since it's the future, but that doesn't change the fact that the Shuttle and the ISS were terrible investments. For one thing, the shuttle could lift only a
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by claystu 11y ago
Sorry... s/day/did
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by claystu 11y ago
More importantly, these stages have nothing to do with choosing either Python 2 or Python 3. Python is just a tool. If one doesn't work, you choose another, and if the developers of that tool decide to screw it up, you just move on.
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by claystu 11y ago
According to the python community survey of 2014, 80% of users are still using Python 2. Of course, that was two years ago, but 2014 was still six years after Python 3 was released. ( https://wiki.python.org/moin/2.x-vs-
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by claystu 11y ago
It's telling that the only way to make the ISS look good is by comparing it to one of the biggest boondoggles in US funding history.
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by claystu 11y ago
We already had Skylab, which never gets the attention it deserves, and the Russians had Mir. They kept somebody up there for more than a year. The true mission of the ISS was to serve as a jobs program for the shuttle. The Apollo missions a
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by claystu 11y ago
It would be nice if all C libraries get rewritten in Go, but realistically, there are way too many for that to ever happen.
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by claystu 11y ago
Nice to see Oberon getting its fair share of credit too
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by claystu 11y ago
I have no idea what they will specifically say regarding calling C from Go, but the table of contents says that part is only going to be about five pages. I really wish they would beef up this portion of the book.
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by claystu 11y ago
My cat immediately reacted! Must be pretty good...
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by claystu 11y ago
Java employs a limited Goto in the form of labelled continue statements. C# includes an explicit Goto statement for breaking out of loops. Goto is definitely still out there.
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by claystu 11y ago
So, you're saying that the prototype for Pharo and Squeak was Smalltalk 71 or one of the other, earlier versions of Smalltalk? In any case, I know the early history of Smalltalk too. All I'm saying is that your original point was
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by claystu 11y ago
What have you built with Pharo? (Genuine question...)
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by claystu 11y ago
> Whether these languages are useful day-to-day doesn't really matter No. Usefulness does matter because, at the end of the day, programming languages are tools, and a useless programming language has no more value than a hammer tha
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by claystu 11y ago
Your "OOP sense" is exactly what I meant about confusing things with computer science jargon. To a beginner, treating objects as structs with functions is all they need to know.
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by claystu 11y ago
I think objects are intuitive. After all, we live in a world made of objects. What confuses newcomers is the computer science vocabulary that everyone insists on using when teaching objects. I am a big fan of object oriented programming, bu
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by claystu 11y ago
I would say Python and Javascript are both easier to install--you don't even have to install Javascript--and Python is easier to get coding in thanks to 1) fewer high level concepts that Ruby gets from Smalltalk and 2) Idle. Having sai
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by claystu 11y ago
Forth has an ANSI standard as a programming language. What more do you need? What features does a language require to make it a 3GL?
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by claystu 11y ago
It wasn't inability. If you look closely, the first Wheel of Time book stands alone and actually concludes the story by beating the main bad guy at the end of book 1. However, after the first book's success, Jordan obviously reali
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by claystu 11y ago
I wasn't saying that farming is no longer viable anywhere as a business. I was saying that there are places, like my home state, that have seen a resurgence of forest as farms have disappeared due to competition from elsewhere.
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by claystu 11y ago
At the same time, turning young trees into old trees isn't a very difficult problem. Once the decision is made either by economics--farming is no longer viable--or aesthetics to let the trees grow back, it's only a matter of time.
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by claystu 11y ago
North Carolina--East Coast state in USA--is basically contiguous forest once you leave the downtown area of our few big cities. Farms and neighborhoods still punctuate the landscape, but any land that isn't routinely maintained by farm
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by claystu 12y ago
Was the Morris Worm, which brought down a huge percentage of Unix Servers in 1988, the result of C? In any case, there was definitely a network that was being used by a lot of people by 1988.
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by claystu 12y ago
Loom was the one game I never purchased that captured my imagination from the game mag descriptions back when it first came out. It's awesome to have finally been able to "play" it and see what it was all about.
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by claystu 12y ago
I know you're just being funny, but go check out this page on the [Underwood typewriter]( http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/underwood5.html )

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