icek

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   by icek 9y ago

   Merge conflicts, history readability, and PR readability are just the things that rebase helps with. I understand, I have coworkers who said "keep things simple; you shouldn't have to be an expert in VCS" as if learning how
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   by icek 9y ago

   Can I butt in with an aside about how nice F#'s physical unit type handling is? Seriously, that's some nice design right there.
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   by icek 9y ago

   I'd gladly read up on alternative concepts to file systems if you'd be so kind as to supply some searchable terms.
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   by icek 9y ago

   Sure, I understand. But it's not just a case of new languages coming up and reusing concepts from the set of all currently-available syntaxes; they in fact invent wholly new ones. It's reminiscent of this: https://xkc
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   by icek 9y ago

   I'll be more specific: if it's the same construct, please make it look familiar. If it's novel, then surely, yes, appearing novel will help me.
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   by icek 9y ago

   I'd be happy to just have less variation in the syntax corresponding to established semantics; if you're designing a new language, please don't make some 'nifty' new way of typing out dictionaries. All this does i