gchpaco

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   by gchpaco 17y ago

   Still needs an axle, though, and making those things out of wood is surprisingly difficult.
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   by gchpaco 17y ago

   The problem is usually not syntaxes; the problem is a lot of Schemes don't have sufficient support for introspection, making a SLIME-type editor impossible. SLIME is also heavily informed by its CL background and has historically been a cl
3. 453.▲
   by gchpaco 17y ago

   Every couple of years the part of my brain responsible for making good decisions shuts off and I start looking at what all is required to parse C++, and in particular how you parse it in, say, yacc. As far as I can tell it is done by magic
4. 454.▲
   by gchpaco 17y ago

   I have grave difficulties believing this, precisely because in the name of backward compatibility they haven't removed any of the nonsense that made C++ so difficult to wrap one's brain around. Instead, they added even more. None of the cor
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   by gchpaco 18y ago

   Somewhere between a third and half of these complaints have been addressed as of Java 6, sometimes at not inconsiderable cost (generics, for example). But most of the fundamental complaints--handling unboxed data, the need to constantly wr