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by epoch1970 11y ago
How does one version control the scripts and easily deploy them? How does one test them on one's own computer when developing them? Must the scripts be uploaded into AWS after every change if testing is to be done?
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Many members of the BSD communities are quite happy with this state of affairs. This is especially true for the BSD users who became BSD users after experiencing severe problems with systemd and Linux. The very last thing they want to see n
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by epoch1970 11y ago
It doesn't matter how many things Perl 6 got right when they got the most important thing completely wrong: the availability of a usable and reliable implementation!
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by epoch1970 11y ago
> The PNG decoder has no access to the file system, network interfaces, user interfaces, or really anything but stdin and stdout and some memory. So you've rediscovered what UNIX has allowed us to do for decades now. Things like pro
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by epoch1970 11y ago
That's a perfect example of a much better approach, exactly like I was talking about earlier. There's CPython, the main Python interpreter. It's quite traditional in architecture, and is written in a very portable subset of C
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I'd like to use Perl 6, but after 15 years of waiting there still isn't an implementation ready for production use. Rakudo and MoarVM clearly aren't what we, as potential Perl 6 developers and users, want. They look far too s
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by epoch1970 11y ago
When will a traditional interpreter written in C and running just about everywhere be available for Perl 6? All of the successful scripting languages have one: Perl 5 and earlier, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Lua, PHP, and even UNIX shell scripts. Ye
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by epoch1970 11y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There may be a relatively small number of very vocal individuals, but I think their opinions may be much more widely held that you believe they are. It's no secret that Firefox's share of the
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by epoch1970 11y ago
No, it's just an inability to make trade-offs, and to live with the consequences of said trade-offs. A month after going back to the vanilla logging they'll realize that they actually do need more flexibility, and back to the cust
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by epoch1970 11y ago
C++ and D aren't the kind of languages that get hype because they're the kind of languages that see serious use right away. If you're deep in the trenches writing C++ and/or D code, you don't have the time or the ne
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Walter has been around a long time. He knows the game. Walter, have you ever used PL/I?
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Walter, is there any chance that we will see the source code to Digital Mars C++ release at some point? Or is it encumbered in ways that would make such a release impossible?
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Rust inherited the enthusiasm of some very prominent and outspoken members of the Ruby community. These ex-Rubyists honed the craft of projecting excitement with Ruby and RoR, and brought these skills and talents with them when they moved t
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by epoch1970 11y ago
Due to its erratic development and the much-delayed release of Rust 1.0, I fear that many people have associated Rust with frequent breaking changes, even if that is no longer the case. It's much like the "Java is slow" falla