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by cygx 9y ago
18 years since it was announced that language design would start. While development of the Parrot VM (ultimately abandoned) started in 2001, the apocalypses weren't all written until 2004 (never mind the Synopses), and Rakudo arguably
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by cygx 9y ago
There are real companies doing real work in newer languages like Swift and Go too Apples and oranges, given that Swift and Go were started with the deep pockets of Apple and Google behind them. Look at Ruby for a more fair comparison: It
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by cygx 9y ago
And here I thought res publica meant something like common good , and describes a system of government that derives its power from the people.
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by cygx 9y ago
In Perl6, effects of importing modules are mostly lexical, ie bound to the surrounding block. However, this particular code basically just modifies a global variable (technically a dynamic one, but you get the point) - and modifications of
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by cygx 9y ago
it was some form of "functional programming", just starting from a void main() 'Procedural' is the term you were looking for.
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by cygx 9y ago
Note that while Chrome is currently the top browser in Germany, it's still not as big as Firefox used to be: https://imgur.com/a/dx5n8 wishes Mozilla luck in reversing the downward trend
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by cygx 9y ago
That's what makes it fuzzy. I would argue that the defining characteristic of a scripting language is the ability to execute scripts instead of generate binaries. You could then make a further distinctions between application scripting
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by cygx 9y ago
what constitutes a scripting language? It's indeed a bit fuzzy, but program execution without separate compilation (which is not a feature of a language per se) is something I'd look for. As far as intrinsic language features go
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by cygx 9y ago
PHP is supposedly faster than Python, nowadays. Not at the JS or LuaJIT level, but it eats CPython and CRuby for breakfast.
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by cygx 9y ago
We're actually on banana 2.0 (Cavendish banana) - banana 1.0 ('Big Mike') got wiped out by Panama disease[1], which very well might happen again. The joys of monoculture! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by cygx 9y ago
How did those users come to learn about VLC Player A computer-savvy acquaintance installed it for them once upon a time.
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by cygx 9y ago
It's the other way around: If a fission reactor is insuffciently cooled (due do the cooling system getting destroyed by attack or natural causes, cf the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster), the reaction will continue, the core can melt
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by cygx 9y ago
No, they are missing because the car had been built before the invention of airbags. It's uncontestable that currently operating reactors generally lack certain safety measures we'd have added if we built them today. The question
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by cygx 9y ago
I think the answer (if there is one) will come from AI We might have to wait until brain simulation becomes a reality, which I expect to happen eventually (assuming we don't manage to pull the plug on civilization).
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by cygx 9y ago
There are species of ants that can pass the mirror test.
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by cygx 9y ago
If deficient plants have been operated successfully for this long, the implication to me is that their operators have proven responsible enough to handle it. A lack of air bags is not noticable until your car crashes.
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by cygx 9y ago
It means their design is flawed, cannot be fixed and likely would not pass muster if proposed today. Whether or not you consider this a severe enough deficit to necessitate a shutdown is a matter of policy. As to any operation record, just
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by cygx 9y ago
Their design is still fairly naive in dealing with worst-case scenarios (eg lack of core catchers).
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by cygx 9y ago
the popularity of Martin Schulz That's a good one!
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by cygx 9y ago
I disagree: While you cannot have a clock travelling alongside the photon, you can have a family of clocks travelling along light-like trajectories that have the photon trajectory as its limit. But as I was alluding to with my 'tomayto
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by cygx 9y ago
Tomayto, tomahto. You can't parametrize a null geodesic by proper time, sure, but I don't see anything particularly wrong with calling the arc 'length'/spacetime interval between events along any particle trajectory
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by cygx 9y ago
And recession velocities have units of distance per time and exceed c at the Hubble sphere. Such coordinate velocities are largely meaningless, though: The more interesting quantity is the relative velocity as evaluated via parallel transpo
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by cygx 9y ago
It's fine to be confused, because the idea that "photons don't experience time" is physically meaningless. It's just a colloquial description of the fact that the time interval between two events along a null geod
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by cygx 9y ago
The (proper) time interval between any two points along a null geodesic is zero. I see nothing wrong with calling photons frozen in time.
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by cygx 9y ago
When compiling in 64 bits mode, the "long" type is 64 bits on gcc and 32 bits on msvc. That's not true for MinGW, and for good reasons (deviating from the ABI followed by the OS and all libraries would be stupid).
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by cygx 9y ago
> how about a 24-bit representation Because 24-bit integers are not a thing on x86?
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by cygx 9y ago
those "autogenerated 'synthetic' codepoints" aren't guaranteed to be identical across runs Indeed: It's not an exchange format, but the format of the internal in-memory string representation.
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by cygx 9y ago
I'm curious how they generated that list Synthetic codepoints get dynamically assigned as they are encountered during program execution. I'm also sort of curious what their rationale is for doing any of this in the first place
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by cygx 9y ago
I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem: Don't move the languages further apart through rebranding, move the implementations closer together through improved interoperability. Have a frontend that can invoke the perl5 int
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by cygx 9y ago
Your old C code and your old C++ code will almost always compile as is with a newer standard. Depends on the code: Some of it won't compile without providing just the right set of flags. In case of C, for me the crucial feature is no

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