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by copx 13y ago
Many of the questions are so stupid that I would refuse to answer them.
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by copx 13y ago
The lack of features actually is a feature. It is a different approach to language design. The Go devs wanted to keep the number of language constructs small.
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by copx 13y ago
That's a joke right? "Dijkstra" and "humble" just don't go together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs
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by copx 13y ago
That was fun. Now I feel like making such a "programming puzzle game" myself.
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by copx 13y ago
I would like to add that I am not actually universally opposed to using ICC for general builds but one should carefully benchmark the resulting binary in those cases.. on a non-Intel machine. As I pointed out it is reasonable to assume that
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by copx 13y ago
>Intel state they do different optimisations for different chips, The documentation says more highly optimized for Intel® microprocessors than for non-Intel microprocessors. again and again. Not just different, inferior. Also the optim
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by copx 13y ago
I don't read French but Intel's current official compiler documentation.. http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/docli... ..suggests nothing has changed. Search for "non-Intel&q
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by copx 13y ago
..only on Intel chips. It deliberately generates code that runs slow on non-Intel CPUs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Criticis... As an AMD user I really hope most programmers know this by now. If
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by copx 13y ago
One of the most interesting and entertaining IT presentations I have ever watched. It's mostly about Xerox PARC and the American pioneers of modern computing in general.
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Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation(youtube.com)
8 points by copx 13y ago|2 comments
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The Most Powerful Feature of Go Is The Least Sexy(dennisforbes.ca)
3 points by copx 13y ago|0 comments
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by copx 13y ago
Does anybody actually use this? Why?
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by copx 13y ago
Well, I sure would prefer Venezuela to receiving the Bradley Manning treatment. I think Snowden would do a lot for his cause if he faced the Obama administration in court. However, it's cheap to ask others to be martyrs. Can't rea
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by copx 13y ago
Russia invaded Georgia (an US ally) not long ago, pulverizing the equipment of the Georgian military (which largely came from the US) and seizing much of its territory. It was a major victory for Putin, which undermined America's Russi
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by copx 13y ago
Thanks for reminding me of Io.. not. I was so happy with Lua and thought it was such an elegant and clean language.. then I looked at the side-by-side comparison between Lua and Io on the site you linked.. and now it seems clumsy and ugly.
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by copx 13y ago
Actually C++ looks simple compared to Scala. E.g. C++ iterators seem complex and tricky compared to say Lua's. But let's just look at one element of Scala's truly byzantine iteration logic collection: Iterable Inherited: Iter
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by copx 13y ago
Hong Kong is a favorite among libertarians because of the economic order there. I hear those guys praising HK all the time. For an American libertarian fleeing the US HK is a natural choice and I have read Snowden is a libertarian. China is
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by copx 13y ago
I did not mean that the mentioned resentment is the cause of the fines, but I think it is the cause of the coverage.
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by copx 13y ago
>This doesn't jive with history. The world had the same disgust for the robber barons of the late 19th century Actually it didn't but I really don't feel like starting a long historic discussion here.. >This article is about how som
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by copx 13y ago
I am not interested in arguing about whether Zuckerberg, Parker etc. deserve their wealth or not. That was not my point here. I just wanted to point out what I think are the dynamics behind attack pieces like this. I dare to claim that if
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by copx 13y ago
The turning the idea into reality part was implied.
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by copx 13y ago
Jealously and ideological discord. The Zuckerbergs and Parkers are undermining the traditional American narrative of "hard work" and entrepreneurship. It seems wrong based on that world view that a baby-faced geek in a hoodie can look down
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by copx 13y ago
By the way, why does Rust need a C compiler anyway? I admit I am ignorant here because I never cared. I know that many academic/niche programming languages bundle MinGW/depend on a MinGW or even Cygwin installation.. I always assumed that w
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by copx 13y ago
..or given that they like 1970s style abbreviated identifiers so much: "upt" and "spt" Looking forward to writing: "let mut foo = upt .."
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by copx 13y ago
Rust continues to shape up as a real C++ competitor. And C++ certainly needs some competition. It is way too lonely in its domain. I hope the next version of Rust will have a proper Windows package, though. I don't understand why they don't
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by copx 13y ago
The vital different between Stallman and McVeigh is that Stallman has never killed anyone (as far as we know). His "free software" ideology is not militant. Yes, some of his views can be called radical and extreme but that does not automati
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by copx 13y ago
>So would you say that GC is the main reason why D did not become very popular as a C++ replacement? I think so yes. There are strong anti-GC sentiments among the crowd which still swears by C++ and did not move on to C# etc. long ago e
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by copx 13y ago
I know but you are left with a crippled subset then. D was not designed for it. You can turn off the GC in most GC language implementations I know, that does not make them alternatives to languages designed for no-GC code. Non-GC (i.e. maxi
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by copx 13y ago
I think D has more features than C++ at this point. Also you are expected to heavily rely on the GC (the standard library itself does) which puts D into a whole different league i.e. the Python and Go league. It can never be a replacement
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Stroustrup on secure code, garbage collection, and C++14(informit.com)
4 points by copx 13y ago|0 comments

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