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by glv 7y ago
First.io | Back-End Engineer | Rails/Postgres | Durham NC or Remote | Full-time First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real estate tech. We identify when people are going to move, and devel
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by glv 8y ago
First.io | Back-End Engineer | Rails/Postgres | Durham NC or Remote | Full-time First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real estate tech. We identify when people are going to move, and devel
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by glv 8y ago
The point about partial programs is a particularly strong one, especially when it comes to test-driven development. Being able to write a test for a method or function before that method or function even exists may seem like a small thing,
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by glv 10y ago
Ah, OK. (And yes, I remember you. You ran the FW JUG for a while?)
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by glv 10y ago
Ah, good to know. But at the time, they were mostly valid criticisms.
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by glv 10y ago
Well, right. Tcl was an early example of a trend where key data structures were built into languages and fairly well encapsulated as "one size fits all" abstractions. Computers had become fast enough that for many purposes you did
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by glv 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that was Chris Morris. (He and I were both regulars at that group.)
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by glv 10y ago
There was a semi-rebuttal … I think in a post from Brent Welch. Tcl does have things called "arrays", and you use them much as you'd expect. Tom Lord confirmed later that what he and RMS meant by this was that it didn't
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by glv 10y ago
Two things about it make me think that RMS actually wrote it (probably after consultation with Lord). The first is this sentence in that post by Lord: "Who cares if a post occurs under my name that I didn't post so long as I more
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by glv 10y ago
Heh. In a recent overhaul of my site, I considered taking these pages down. But they do still get a reasonable amount of traffic, and I hate broken links. Thanks to amelius for the "Tcl the Misunderstood" link. I agree with that,
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by glv 10y ago
It did later come out that Tom Lord wrote it, but not as a prank; he was working with RMS to build Guile, and this was the opening salvo in trying to build the case for it. RMS did post it under his own name.