gitonthescene

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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   Which colleagues are you talking about in this context? In any event I’ve worked for over twenty years in companies with thousands of employees and I can’t remember a single time that the name of a source file made any practical difference
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   Funnily enough, I don’t need a label for the drawer I keep my socks in. None of my drawers have labels. See what I’m saying here?
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   Are you saying this is a complex system or that any decisions made in the context of complex systems must be used for all software? Also, this was not in response to a post about documentation but rather a post about the file names. In an
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   You’re right. I don’t see any license mentioned in the source at all.
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   The author of Kona has written kerf which I believe is intended for this same space. I’ve never used it though. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf1
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   The K family of languages hew very closely to versions written by Arthur Whitney who famously rewrites the entire codebase from scratch with each major revision. Kona is largely modeled on K2 (the second major revision) and ngn/k is m
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   I think this style of coding is decidedly less amenable to using a debugger on. With so much on a single line stepping becomes unclear. Heavy use of macros fights against the use of a debugger as well. I think proponents would argue that
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   I think a diff is just as valuable with this code. Of course understanding a diff also requires understanding the code but if you’re interested the repository is linked at the root of this thread so you could poke around.
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   by gitonthescene 4y ago

   It’s odd, I seem to remember comments from you on a similar thread about a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27220613 Are you still shocked or have you just forgotten?
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    by gitonthescene 4y ago

    I think you’re right that if you’ve already decided what the outcome will be then it’s not worth your time but also think it severely undermines the value of your opinion for others.
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    by gitonthescene 4y ago

    Or, or, and here me out here, you could learn the syntax in order to make a more informed assessment. Do also seek out geocar’s posts. They are well written and to my mind convincing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2