cstrahan

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by cstrahan 12y ago
Yet Another Ruby VM - the "official" Ruby interpreter, if you will (also known as Matz's Ruby, or MRI). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV Yeah, Tom Stuart is great - that's where I got the idea to c
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by cstrahan 12y ago
Nice! I'll have to read that in full later tonight - thanks for sharing! This was mostly just me trying to wrap my head around Church encodings and such, but I could surely do with a couple more combinators in there :).
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Ruby/YARV bytecode compiler for λ-calculus(github.com)
12 points by cstrahan 12y ago|5 comments
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by cstrahan 12y ago
> There's no reason to want a package manager to be non-deterministic (i.e., unpredictable). I agree with that assertion. However, it's an important distinction, as almost all other package managers produce non-deterministic bu
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by cstrahan 12y ago
That's not what "functional" is referring to in this context; the builds are (mostly) deterministic, so given a set of inputs (configuration settings, version preferences, extra patches, etc) you're guaranteed the same b
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by cstrahan 12y ago
I don't see the point of downvotes here... I have several production deployments of NixOS, and can't imagine using any other OS / package manager (supplemental utilities are fine, of course).
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by cstrahan 12y ago
See: "and a standard dependency manifest file that every go project adopts" You need some way to create a complete dependency graph for a given project. If your project has a list of its immediate dependencies, but those dependenc
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by cstrahan 12y ago
That was my thought, too. Rather unfortunate.
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by cstrahan 12y ago
Some extra background on `$`, for the curious: Function application in Haskell is expressed like so: > f x Where `f` is a function, and `x` is it's argument. Function application is left associative, so > f x y Is equivalent to &
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by cstrahan 13y ago
>> Inheritance is overrated, and the factory pattern is often overused. Both of those happen with generics. > Non-sequitur here. To me, it's clear that I'm saying that generics are overrated and overused. Your interpretat
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by cstrahan 13y ago
>> Generics have nothing to do with inheritance and the factory pattern. > Where do I say such a thing? I'm saying that generics are both overrated and overused. It looks like that's what you're suggesting here: &g
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by cstrahan 15y ago
Just applied (along with little bro)! By what date will we absolutely know if we are accepted? I assume it has to be within the next month or so - everyone will need time to move up there.