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by dgsb 9y ago
Is there any planned work on the vi-mode command line edition ? This is the sole missing feature which make me miss bash from time to time.
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by dgsb 9y ago
Bash scripts are also much more brittle. I don't do bash scripting at all anymore. I fish for personal/usage or perl/python for shared scripts.
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by dgsb 9y ago
Did you think using git-annex or git-lfs ?
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by dgsb 9y ago
If I recall correctly, having looked for such solutions in git a few years back, most of bug tracker management in a git repository project were either uncompleted or unmaintained.
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by dgsb 9y ago
Postponing for one year a material replacement does not seem that extreme, and it has impact on a company revenue.
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by dgsb 9y ago
You can still live with choosing to not buy any iphone or mac book stuff.
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by dgsb 9y ago
On my computers anything that uses readline behaves like vi.
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by dgsb 9y ago
No, breaking old code compatibility is not ok. We have good examples with python 2 vs python 3
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by dgsb 9y ago
Really ? I've found it to be the simplest language ever. It is just defined with 12 rules and that's all. I miss that lovely animal.
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by dgsb 9y ago
I have no experience with rust so I can not elaborate on that, but I find harder to debug a multi-threaded C++ application where race condition and memory corruption is possible than a python one. That difficulty has an impact on average da
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by dgsb 9y ago
What makes you think software developers write the same average amount of lines of code per day ? It seems to me the higher level the language is, higher is the average number of loc per day. IHMO Debugging has an huge impact on this averag
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by dgsb 9y ago
I don't see what feature JavaScrip has which would prevent implementing the same thing in Tcl
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by dgsb 9y ago
The analysis seems dubious regarding international cities. "Oslo tops the list in terms of earning power, but we did not mention it earlier because the job market is the smallest among the 43 cities we analyzed in this report. Compare
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by dgsb 9y ago
Hi David, Thanks for your article. As you chime here, do you think the dev platform had also an impact on the language visibility (fossil vs github) ?
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by dgsb 9y ago
I've never have the chance to use the new core TclOO, but I really think they've made mistake at that time by implementing another new object system instead of promoting an existing one like [incr tcl] (even if not perfect/in
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by dgsb 9y ago
IMHO the lack of an official OO system has been one of the main drawback to the language when at the same time python were rising.