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by igouy 2y ago
https://gtoolkit.com/
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by igouy 2y ago
Their point seems to be a tautology: If what you are measuring is worthless, the measurement is worthless. Whether the measurement is in-some-sense formally correct or not is another question.
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by igouy 2y ago
"Cuis-Smalltalk uses GitHub to host, version, diff its core development and to manage a set of external packages" https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Daily-Workflow.... Even back in the '90s: h
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by igouy 2y ago
> online compilation ? incremental compilation
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by igouy 2y ago
Awaiting part 2 — Why not to use Haskell?
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by igouy 2y ago
Yes specific would be better. Of course "keep an image" and "version-controlled sources" are not mutually exclusive. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...
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by igouy 2y ago
> IMO, using SIMD intrinsics in the benchmarks game is a little bit of cheating otoh yes, otoh seems like that is viable for some people and of interest to others. Perhaps a smarter, more knowledgeable, curator would have been able to dr
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by igouy 2y ago
> It originally meant "Smalltalk encourages well-factored designs through inheritance. Every class inherits behavior from its superclass … all forms of ordered collections in the system will instantly acquire this new capability thr
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by igouy 2y ago
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
> plenty of attempts to build a replacement Chapel vs Fortran https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... Julia vs Fortran https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksg
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by igouy 2y ago
Back in the day: https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Halt_0021.html
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by igouy 2y ago
CPython 3.12.3 vs Node.js v22.2.0 https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
> Using this benchmark example, the python code (without imports) is 36 lines and the go code is 70. Look at the gz values and notice that longer programs might be faster programs: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&
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by igouy 2y ago
CPython 3.12.3 vs PHP 8.3.7 https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
too simple https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
For future reference, does "code formatting" provide a way to distinguish list := #(1 8 4 5 3). from ! Syntax Error: Nothing more expected as-well-as from comment text ?
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by igouy 2y ago
When this buggy method is compiled (not run) with Smalltalk, errors and warnings are shown. The code cannot be run because it failed to compile. hnQuestion | list max | list := #(1 8 4 5 3). ! Syntax Error: Nothing more expected 1 to: lis
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by igouy 2y ago
2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33502897
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by igouy 2y ago
> That is how I found Oberon. They told me such a thing did not and could not exist. Long ago: https://blackbox.oberon.org/ https://github.com/excelsior-oss/xds
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by igouy 2y ago
Here's something Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis does reference in the context of message passing: "4.5 Programming Notations Based on Message Passing" p33 "Concepts and Notations for Concurrent Programming", Gregor
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by igouy 2y ago
The Wikipedia "Influenced by Lisp, PLEX,[2] Prolog, Smalltalk" seems to be un-sourced ! > … Joe Armstrong … mentions message passing … Where?
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by igouy 2y ago
> … Erlang … inspired by the message passing semantics of Smalltalk. What makes you think that?
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by igouy 2y ago
Maybe some of what you're looking for, maybe not. https://toitlang.org/
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by igouy 2y ago
If you'd like to know about the early history of Smalltalk, then I'd recommend Alan Kay's "The Early History of Smalltalk" (in this case say pages 19-31) [pdf] https://web.archive.org/web/202305
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by igouy 2y ago
"Smalltalk encourages well-factored designs through inheritance . Every class inherits behavior from its superclass … all forms of ordered collections in the system will instantly acquire this new capability through inheritance."
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by igouy 2y ago
"1.4 What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?" https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html
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Mojo N-Body Example(modular.com)
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by igouy 2y ago
fwiw > big chunks of text "Lines of Code" / "Total Methods" = 7 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/74878.74904
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by igouy 2y ago
> I'm using it as a shorthand for "experienced programmer of a traditional text-based language". And I was telling you that experienced Smalltalk programmers don't work with "big chunks of text". Small snipp
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by igouy 2y ago
> experienced programmer who's probably happiest writing and seeing their code as a big chunks of text Not if you're a Smalltalk programmer. "ENVY/Manager augments this model by providing configuration management and

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