jdoege

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by jdoege 3y ago
You must decide if you want your career path to be a manager or a technologist. In most cases, there is valid career growth in either path but they are different paths because there are fundamentally different skill sets and inclinations in
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by jdoege 6y ago
Many industries use Perl 5 to keep things running. The semiconductor industry, in particular uses a lot of existing, and develops a lot of new, Perl code to do things commercial software cannot.
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by jdoege 6y ago
The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku so there are no more backwards compatibility issues. Perl 7 is the new opportunity for backwards incompatibility (and probably doesn't even have an entry on Tiobe which would mak
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by jdoege 6y ago
I view the Raku vs. Perl split as schizophrenic conflict resolution.
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by jdoege 7y ago
Packrat parsing is not an intrinsic aspect of PEG, nor does it increase memory usage. Further, the memory issue is more academic than real. If you are having memory issues, you will add intentional pruning to your parser to purge anything t
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by jdoege 8y ago
I went paperless, this year, and after trying 3 or 4 different note apps, I settled on Notability on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. That I can run the app on my laptop (and phone), synchronized through iCloud makes this incredibly more usef
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by jdoege 8y ago
I don't know about vendor stance, but Elixir feels fairly elegant (better descriptive word than beautiful, I think.)
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by jdoege 8y ago
What I have negative to say has more to do with those producing implementations than the architecture or RTL. In order to have the security afforded by being open, every part of the process must be open from the spec to the silicon. The ent
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by jdoege 8y ago
Moreover, no one is releasing the gate-level netlists nor the LEF and DEF nor mask data. Without those you can't have security unless you build your own.
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by jdoege 8y ago
It really depends. The question really should be, "Is Perl 6 fast enough?" For my purposes, the answer is almost always yes. I can imagine some applications where the answer would be no, but then I would probably be looking at C&#
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by jdoege 8y ago
If you are doing it for personal growth and learning, then Perl 6. It is an interesting language that cleanly supports many major programming paradigms including functional, imperative and object oriented and, most probably, others. Additio
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by jdoege 9y ago
Perl 6 actually exists and has a REPL which Perl 5 lacked.
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by jdoege 9y ago
I use Perl 6