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If You Haven't Done It Before, All Bets Are Off(prog21.dadgum.com)
13 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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by draegtun 11y ago
There is an Excel dialect (DSL) for Rebol - http://www.robertmuench.ch/development/projects/excel/dialec... Here is a cleaner example I posted on HN before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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The Future of Open Source(allisonrandal.com)
7 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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Emulating Linux MIPS in Perl – Part 1: ELF loader(schplog.schmorp.de)
77 points by draegtun 11y ago|13 comments
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USCII: Character Codes with Meaning(uscii.hostilefork.com)
14 points by draegtun 11y ago|8 comments
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Stop the Vertical Tab Madness (2010)(prog21.dadgum.com)
85 points by draegtun 11y ago|63 comments
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by draegtun 11y ago
Unfortunately no examples of Rebol's parse were given. Here are some links to fill the gap: http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Common_Parse_Patterns https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming&#
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Mobile Internet to overtake fixed broadband in two years (UK)(research-live.com)
1 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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by draegtun 11y ago
Brings back memories and completely forgot about the sound! Use to see them pretty much everyday while at primary school (near Northolt Airport).
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Apple replaces Google as world's most valuable brand(research-live.com)
2 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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by draegtun 11y ago
Rebol is another homoiconic language that has infix operators: >> 1 + 2 * 3 == 9 The Rebol interpreter see this as: >> multiply add 1 2 3 == 9 Functions in Rebol have fixed arity, both add and multiple tak
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by draegtun 11y ago
I was thinking the same but using Rebol: todo [ housework high: "Clean the house" medium: "Wash the dishes" medium: "Buy more soap" ] And this is so easy to validate & use v
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by draegtun 11y ago
And another example of this, but not using macros, would be Rebol's parse which is a top-down parsing dialect (internal DSL) within Rebol. ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol#parse
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by draegtun 11y ago
This reminds me of the Visual Interface Dialect (VID) that is part of Rebol/View - http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html Here's the buttons examples in VID... Rebol [] shrink: does [] grow: does
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How much are you worth? This tool can tell you by looking at your CV(independent.co.uk)
3 points by draegtun 11y ago|3 comments
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by draegtun 11y ago
The author did have a point he wanted to put across with the hash table - "Obviously, a frequency distribution was not necessary for just the counts, but I did want to highlight basic autovivification" ref: http://www
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What will the future of programming look like?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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Parsing Perl 5 POD with Perl 6(perltricks.com)
8 points by draegtun 11y ago|0 comments
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Are You Sure?(prog21.dadgum.com)
2 points by draegtun 12y ago|2 comments
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by draegtun 12y ago
Perl6, Clojure, Racket, Rebol, Red, Factor & Forth are some other languages that allow hyphenated names. And I agree with you that hyphens are more readable. They're also good for adding extra semantic meaning - https://
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by draegtun 12y ago
Nice. Here's one I always remember (written in Haskell) - https://ocharles.org.uk/ OCharles originally did it in Perl/Moose and with a module of mine (Acme::URL) which is how I stumbled across the CV in the firs
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Perl v5.18 adds character class set operations(effectiveperlprogramming.com)
3 points by draegtun 12y ago|0 comments
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Life Is More Than a Series of Cache Misses(prog21.dadgum.com)
13 points by draegtun 12y ago|0 comments
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by draegtun 12y ago
Relevant: Trend analysis at the shallow end of the pool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9099675
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Trend analysis at the shallow end of the pool(nu42.com)
2 points by draegtun 12y ago|0 comments
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by draegtun 12y ago
The moroning example gets caught at compile time in perl6 and also in perl5... $ perl -Mstrict -M"feature 'say'" -c morning.pl Global symbol "$moroning" requires explicit package name at morning.pl lin
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by draegtun 12y ago
The days of the BBC being a "Perl shop" have long gone. But they do still use Perl, for e.g. BBC Genome is a new project written in Perl - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/cedd1f30-ac95-32
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by draegtun 12y ago
Thought this might be of interest; below shows how the examples provided would look in Rebol: digits: digit: charset "0123456789" rule: [ thru "$" some digits "." digi
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by draegtun 12y ago
Well if Explicit is better than implicit then this is one example of where Perl should be the preferred!
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by draegtun 12y ago
You could say the same thing about perl5 then :) $ perl -E "use bignum; say .1 + .2 - .3" 0 $ perl -E "use bigrat; say .1 + .2 - .3" 0 $ perl -E "use bigrat; say 3.1415927 / 1"

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