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by kick 7y ago
I agree with Hotz, but self-driving cars are an unambiguous win. Way more people die from car crashes than most ways to die; there's a moral imperative to take away control from humans in that regard. Dating apps are easy: don't u
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Pirate Game(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
What do you not like about PostScript? It's basically a worse Forth, which, when compared to most languages, is comparatively wonderful to write in.
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Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)(utcc.utoronto.ca)
121 points by kick 7y ago|125 comments
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by kick 7y ago
What year was this?
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by kick 7y ago
I think I've responded to everything in this thread. If I've missed something, please point it out. I'll look through again later: I spent like five hours straight replying to this thread today, so I'm kind of tired of
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by kick 7y ago
Their criticism is fair: I have been making a performance argument. I do think they've misinterpreted my performance argument, though, which I'll get to. (There's a lot of backlog I need to catch up with; this thread is very
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by kick 7y ago
I disagree with your last sentence, but thank you for bringing the history here up!
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by kick 7y ago
I shared this comment with a friend because it made me happy that something I posted was getting more than a surface-level review, and they responded like this to your last paragraph: This is an interesting note to end on, because I'm
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by kick 7y ago
My comment was that taking advantage of SIMD wasn't cheating, but "cheating" was a joke in both cases. Though I disagree with your comment on the cache: it's very blatantly better for interpreters; Whitney isn't the
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by kick 7y ago
k is faster than hand-written C in many cases, and significantly faster than compiled Haskell.
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by kick 7y ago
Oh, certainly! My claim isn't that libre software harms knowledge transfer at all. It's great! But free compilers won so quickly even when they weren't obviously better that many proprietary compilers died quick, unceremo
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by kick 7y ago
I'm not conflating anything, as far as I'm aware. The question was: "the art of writing compilers and interpreters has effectively been lost" I'm curious, how does that happen? Were the techniques used in compilers
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by kick 7y ago
I don't know enough about QBE to give a well-informed assessment of it, so I'll refrain.
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by kick 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this excerpt, I appreciate it!
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by kick 7y ago
I promise I'll respond to this in the morning, I'm very tired right now and don't want to give a good and reasonable question an answer that hasn't been thought out well, especially given that my responses have been gett
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by kick 7y ago
I have for most of it elsewhere in this thread (I think you can find my answers by checking my /comments), but for what I didn't get to, I'll get to tomorrow. My responses are getting worse as I tire.
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by kick 7y ago
Haskell was written as academia's response to Miranda's licensing fees. Were Miranda freeware (but not source available or Free Software), it probably would still be well-known. It's still taught in many universities. I certa
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by kick 7y ago
Answering here so everyone in this thread can see: The most obvious one (and, admittedly, the one that immediately comes to mind at almost 3AM) is their exclusion of non-linear patterns. It didn't reduce complexity, yet made the langua
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by kick 7y ago
Good question! BCPL's O-Code is far different from LLVM bytecode. O-Code was little more than a virtual stack machine. Very similar to Forth, though slightly more complicated. I could be wrong, but isn't Open64 more or less dead?
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by kick 7y ago
APL isn't cheating because of that, it's cheating because it's small enough to fit in your CPU cache! I'm sure something else can beat Miranda, I'm just unsure of what. I don't really care for the FP paradigm o
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by kick 7y ago
Clean was directly inspired by Miranda.
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by kick 7y ago
Spent a good while thinking on your question: The best stuff was all proprietary for decades. Even now, we only got Miranda's source code weeks ago. Miranda was written in the 1980s! It's the same for a lot of languages. Nial&#x27
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by kick 7y ago
k, J & APL, in roughly that order.
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by kick 7y ago
Lichess Bots can: Play casual and rated games with other players
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by kick 7y ago
Their blog post (linked in the post you linked) states that you've been able to use electronic boards for a while. https://lichess.org/blog/XlE48hEAACIAQv2F/regium-extraordina... I'm curious on where tha
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by kick 7y ago
Short: Haskell made a bunch of poor design decisions that they've since doubled down on, the fastest implementation isn't very good, the art of writing compilers and interpreters has effectively been lost, and Miranda was written
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by kick 7y ago
Yeah, it was a bit ridiculous. Incredibly good software compared to what we've got now, though.
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by kick 7y ago
He's right! Haskell is still stuck with most of the wrong decisions they made in '88, and it was intended as a (clunkier) Miranda clone, anyway.
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by kick 7y ago
Yeah, the date on the page is wrong. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20181015090301/http://miranda.or... It was still proprietary as of 2018/most of 2019, got a source release in the form of a 32-b

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