flavio81

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by flavio81 9y ago
>The importance of paredit is a language smell in my opinion, not something to aspire to. Paredit is just a nice-to-have. Many lispers don't use it.
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by flavio81 9y ago
how can one of the languages with the most tricky syntax to parse "flow naturally"? and I say this as somebody proficient in C.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>boring Not boring. Just "full of boilerplate" which also means that it will be a nightmare to maintain at a certain point of the lifecycle.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>especially now that node has actually begun to enter real world usage and enterprise on a large scale. That's why i'm starting to avoid as much as possible all new/updated online services for serious stuff.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Isn't Lisp particularly good at making your own DSL? Anyway, the majority of the programming community tends to dislike that sort of freedom, The majority of the programming community doesn't use Lisp. Lisp metaprogramming is
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by flavio81 9y ago
>implicit conversion, which happens in many languages And that doesn't happen in many decent languages. That is, languages with strong typing.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Sometimes you just don't have other options than C. Like kernel drivers, embedded (microcontroller) development Use Common Lisp to generate C code. There are three libs that are specific for this, see C-mera for example.
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by flavio81 9y ago
... with a richer type system, no less!!
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by flavio81 9y ago
Or Common Lisp (same language since 1994, and almost identical in 1984; still modern.)
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by flavio81 9y ago
Ah, unlike programmable languages like Scheme or Lisp, where I can modify the language as needed, by using code.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>writing a compile-to-go language. Why not fix Go instead?
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Imho, Go is ideal for ... tons of boilerplate working fast yet slower than C/Rust/C++.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Go is rather performant Go is slower than C++.
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by flavio81 9y ago
There is a difference between a music lover and a music collector . Author is a collector, thus buys stuff he knows he will never have the time to listen to.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Jazz music pushes harmonic dissonance a lot farther than "classical" does I'm both a jazz fan and a "classical" music fan. I seriously disagree. The latter pushes the harmonic envelope far more -- listen to Oliv
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by flavio81 9y ago
>JavaScript, without ever mentioning the limitations of wasm wrt. JS (no GC, no interaction with the DOM or with JS libraries besides numbers, etc.). DOM will die as soon as the industry moves to one or two good GUI toolkits that run und
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by flavio81 9y ago
Thanks for replying, because I didn't mean to be rude to you. >Javascript, exactly. Well, then consider you had experience with only one dynamically typed language, and one with a notoriously poor type system. Thus, you wrote: &quo
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by flavio81 9y ago
>the unix inheritance as something to be ignored or even vilified. And I agree with them. Unix was never a great or even a good system. It was just a way to have a multiuser system on a cheap hardware. Already in the late '70s, UNIX
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by flavio81 9y ago
>If most of your experience was with statically typed systems, it's just logical you would have very little experience with bugs that are prevented by statically typed systems And then, when I used a dynamically typed language (Pyth
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by flavio81 9y ago
>We have some formal verification, it's called typed systems. Very limited, I know. Very limited. In my many years of experience doing software professionally, the serious bugs, that is, the ones that took us more than one day of de
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by flavio81 9y ago
>$900 in 1967 is equivalent to $6,776 today!! And this was considered "cheap"?? Yes, for 1967.
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by flavio81 9y ago
It is really another embarrasment for NPM, considering that this is not the first time something similar happens (see: left-pad issue, 23 march 2016) So they learnt zero from it. Then, WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO SIGN THOSE PACKAGES? Zero, not
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by flavio81 9y ago
the logo for T.E.M.P was a trans istor, so i think that's the "trans" Walter and Rachel had in mind back then.
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by flavio81 9y ago
2.1 embed Rick Astley "never gonna give you up" within the video.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation. Why? I thought the latest Mazda rotary engines were of very low emissions.
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by flavio81 9y ago
> the greatest electronics company that ever existed That must be Philips. Google "Philips natlab".
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by flavio81 9y ago
The first commercial Wankel engine was brought by NSU in the 60s. They licensed the technology to other manufacturers, including a consortium (Comotor) of many well known manufacturers, that shared research results between them. Already in
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by flavio81 9y ago
>You could compile other languages to js before In the mid-term, there will be no more reasons to do that. Just compile those languages straight to Webassembly.
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is just fantastic. The "happy 2018!" news i was waiting for. As i've said before, little by little we're witnessing the end of Javascript dominance.
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by flavio81 9y ago
> The real advantage of OOP, as used today in Java/C++, is instantiation. Instead of having procedures working on global variables, you have procedure working on local variables, including complex data structures. You can have the

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