lcvella

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   by lcvella 5y ago

   The article dismisses the criticism against COBOL with an argument akin to "mathematicians use those funny symbols because they like to feel superior to everybody else."
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   by lcvella 10y ago

   For me, what is most important on the subject is that, even if we can't differentiate from one interpretation to another experimentally (yet), it doesn't mean they are all equally correct. Specifically in connection with general r
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   by lcvella 10y ago

   It seems that the most important conclusion of the article is that using lambdas is more error prone than using iterators. What begs the question: how many compiler errors were caused by the actual lambadas, and how many were caused by the
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   by lcvella 10y ago

   That is why I believe society is not getting what it is paying for in physics and mathematics. Too much of the funds invested in physics knowledge is from taxpayers money, and all the knowledge produced is useless if we can't get it ba