johnzabroski

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by johnzabroski 16y ago
so who wants to team up and create a _N_evercookie plug-in for browsers.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
That is a pretty wild example, but it is common in software today. Microsoft does stuff like this all the time, deprecating good .NET libraries for stupid ones just because of God knows what reasons (none of them intelligible to non-politic
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
There were academic systems that (a) didn't use the SQL langauge (b) came before Oracle, but wasn't commercialized as quickly as Oracle. Oracle's biggest business decision was standardizing on IBM's standards, according to Ingres founder M
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<blockquote> There were a reasonable amount of typo and similar errors I seem to recall now actually, which is either surprising or perhaps revealing given that it was publicly reviewed.</blockquote> A lot of people with Ph.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
More useful? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/archive/2010/08/13/non-myth... Not behind a paywall.
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why is this being upvoted
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
So research how to make it less nasty. Check out the Lexer Hack article on wikipedia. It also helps to familiarize yourself with classical pathological syntax issues for languages like ALGOL-68 (requires 'semantic actions' to parse correct
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Note that there is more than one hand-drawn dragon book cover by Aho & Ullman. Principles of Compiler Design tends to precede "The Dragon Book" as commonly referred, although the material overlaps a lot. The newer editions are much le
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I like the book Trustworthy Compilers by Vladimir Safonov. Written by a guy who has been doing it for 40 years. Currently works on MSFT Phoenix. The reason why I like this book is that it has a gentle slope for the reader but also discuss
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I tried this to see if I could recommend it to coworkers. When you are in tutorial mode, it explicitly expects you to type into the interpreter what the tutorial tells you to type in. If you don't, you get a compiler error message. This
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Notes: The 2nd Edition is better than the 1st Edition, because it does not have the distracting analogies to quantum physics. For me, the best part of Samek's book was Chapter 5, State Patterns. However, he also covers Standard State mach
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
It depends who you ask what the big difference b/w Smalltalk and Lisp is. Model-driven architecture weenies like me will tell you the biggest difference is methodological, and that real-time object-oriented systems engineering has its roots
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
@IMO, it takes guts to look someone in the eye and tell them their investment, in both time and money, is safe with you and your fringe programming language. Not just fringe language, but fringe anything. The only known amongst a see of unk
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
Stability of any problem space makes reasoning about any problem space easier. The statement is a tautology. 'How' is a rabbit hole. I wish, though, that Clojure had a versioning system similar to Curl or even .NET's module system, or eve
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
Also, you should really look at all the papers for COLA before saying it is a continuation of Lisp. Perhaps start with: "Accessible Language-Based Environments of Recursive Theories (a white paper advocating widespread unreasonable behavio
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
@When things are truly late-bound, it makes as little sense to split computational instructions into these "language" silos. I can't understand you. Can you rephrase? @Allowing users (and creating tools) to modify syntax is fundamental to
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
Everything in Lisp, traditionally, is not extremely late bound. For this, look to COLA by Viewpoints Resaearch Institute. The no reader macro convention basically boils down to making it easier to design a language. If you want an acceptab
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Forgot to mention, just add @yahoo.com or @gmail.com to my userid.
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
I'm in the Boston area. I'd say just give me an e-mail, tell me what interests you, and what career direction you are looking to take. I like meeting random people and stirring up conversations about what they're intensely passionate abou
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by johnzabroski 17y ago
Smart Bear Software's also used by Cisco