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by dmux 8y ago
The liveness of the environment is really stellar. Other languages have REPLs, but once you've entered your code, it gets compiled and saved in some internal format. In most languages I've tried, there's been no way to retrie
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It reminds me of a great quote from the book Computing Fundamentals [0] regarding Wirth's design philosophy: >Wirth’s philosophy of programming languages is that a complex language is not required to solve a complex problem. On the
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What's the protocol if the phone (or other electronic device) was provided to you by your employer? Wouldn't unlocking and handing over a "protected" device be against most company handbooks?
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AFAIK, Groovy 3 is targeting Antlr 4.
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It's also common for towing companies to show up to the scene of an accident before police arrive with hopes of convincing those in the accident their vehicles need to be towed for some reason or another. Canada has even gone as far as
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I believe Infinite Jest uses "endnotes" as opposed to footnotes. One interesting example of footnotes is Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves where different narrators make extensive use of footnotes to add additional detail
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by dmux 8y ago
>Does any other language even come close to this? Smalltalk
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Could you explain why adding to the end of an array results in O(n^2)? From what I can find, it appears to be O(1). If you increase the size of the array by 1 each time and copy the old array elements over, wouldn't that be O(n) to cop
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Would setting up an LLC for yourself help protect some of those rights?
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I've always found it really interesting how some people's jobs is to not only research historic artifacts, but research and verify what they had found out was accurate and repeatable. What kind of background do these people have t
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Jackson System Development(en.wikipedia.org)
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Likewise with Apache Groovy, which has optional typing: #!/usr/bin/env groovy // @Grab annotation won't work in scripts import static groovy.grape.Grape.grab grab(group: 'org.apache.commo
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I once worked with a software system where the preferred way of interacting with its admin features was using lynx. It's a great way to provide menu-based software configuration.
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Would a factory be able to achieve this? Keep a reference to everything it had constructed?
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Ever Wonder Why? by Thomas Sowell Non Violent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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(1) Object Thinking by David West. (2) Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie
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by dmux 9y ago
We're currently using Groovy and Grails deployed within Docker containers to ECS.
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>There's tons of waste in all human endeavor I believe the argument stems from the difference between wasting your own money vs. wasting tax payer money. >but I haven't seen any evidence that government is particularly good
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Athenahealth
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Documenting Software Architecture: Documenting Interfaces (2002) [pdf](sei.cmu.edu)
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>you build and test your app live and then dump it all to a text file The Tcl shell is really great for doing this. Since everything can be represented as a string-type, you're able to introspect your defined procedures and dump the
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by dmux 9y ago
From https://nim-lang.org/features.html : > Oberon-inspired visibility markers > Pascal-inspired type sections for leaner definitions While Oberon isn't Pascal, they're both Wirth languages that share many co
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Isn't setAccessible required before you can interact with fields?
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Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart [0]. While not soley dedicated to creating a language, the first couple of chapters deal with building semantics of a simple language using Ruby as the implementation language (but easily done in any
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> ... that is structured well ... Is there a way to organize a large program (let's say in Java) that allows one to easily extract specific components and move them to their own service as needed? I'm thinking along the lines o
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Object Thinking by David West
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Putting Metaclasses to Work(archive.org)
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I posted a link to a paper [0] about "Deliberate Performance" the other day that some may find useful. In that paper -- along with making the distinction between practice and performance -- they describe deliberate performance as:
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I'd be interested in hearing what the community has to say regarding static types and whether or not they're compatible with object-oriented programming. I've posted this link a couple times before, but it hasn't been ac
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> I find static strong typing speeds me up because I don't have to restart the app, click some buttons etc. I'd blame this more on our current programming environments than anything. Smalltalk is exceptionally productive and do

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