jhgb

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by jhgb 9y ago
Why do I get the impression that it resembles Alan Kay's ideas on how the Internet should have looked like, only in a more heavyweight/baroque incarnation?
2402.
by jhgb 9y ago
So that would be six volts or something like that? ;)
2403.
by jhgb 9y ago
Lisp buffers? Smalltalk workspaces? Is this capability any different from those?
2404.
by jhgb 9y ago
You could, but the strings are not the language proper. There's, e.g., no relational expressions in your import strings (yet!), so there's no ambiguity in parsing it. I'd actually use parentheses anyway, since type parameters
2405.
by jhgb 9y ago
How would there be one? It's not like you can easily write a program that infiltrates a random program A that happens to interpret a language in which a random program B is written and infiltrates the B program afterwards. You'd
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by jhgb 9y ago
The interface to the feature is perhaps more important than the complexity of the implementation because it will affect many more people - only a few programmers will work on the compiler but tens of thousands of programmers will be writing
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by jhgb 9y ago
But the presence of water on the Moon is more limited than the presence of CO2 and H2O on Mars. That could be significant for self-sufficiency. Especially if we could find a way to make plastics from CO2 and H2O in a reasonably small mobile
2408.
by jhgb 9y ago
I was under the impression that the intricacies of creating a small biosphere on Mars pose a vastly larger obstacle than the simple issue or radiation (which can be eliminated by simply shoving enough regolith on top of your colony).
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by jhgb 9y ago
> "If you care about CPU-heavy computation, you care about not using an interpreted language to do it, because if you pay a 10x performance penalty, that turns your 16-core machine back into an effective 1-core machine. " >
2410.
by jhgb 9y ago
Aren't there C interpreters still around?
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by jhgb 9y ago
I have been wondering for quite some time how one could implement that. That is, not in the sense of how to code that, but rather how few changes one would have to make to the language to get as many effects as possible in the direction o