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Fast enough VMs in fast enough time(tratt.net)
228 points by ltratt 15y ago|33 comments
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Creating crises where there aren't any(tratt.net)
1 points by ltratt 15y ago|0 comments
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Failing to Use the Computing Lever(tratt.net)
1 points by ltratt 15y ago|0 comments
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Confusing problems whose solutions are easy to state with those easy to realise(tratt.net)
2 points by ltratt 15y ago|0 comments
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by ltratt 16y ago
Indeed, the allusion to syntax directed editing in the article is due to MPS.
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by ltratt 16y ago
Yes, that's part of the same bug, as I understand it anyway (to be clear: I'm not sure that anyone's claiming that there are problems with Earley's recogniser, which is really the core of his paper). Scott's "SPPF-Style Parsing From Earley
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by ltratt 16y ago
I'm not sure the Earley paper "is full of bugs" - to the best of my knowledge, it has only one bug (albeit a biggy), which is in its description of how to create a parse tree.
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Parsing: the solved problem that isn't(tratt.net)
200 points by ltratt 16y ago|47 comments
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by ltratt 16y ago
There's a big debate to be had about the utility of journals in 2011, but when a Wikipedia editor writes about TOPLAS that "I'm not sure about this journal [TOPLAS], more research would be necessary, it may have a low impact factor as it do
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In praise of the imperfect(tratt.net)
1 points by ltratt 16y ago|0 comments
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The Missing Level of Abstraction?(tratt.net)
3 points by ltratt 17y ago|0 comments
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Good programmers are good sysadmins are good programmers(tratt.net)
3 points by ltratt 17y ago|5 comments
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by ltratt 18y ago
There are various different query APIs available. Google maintains a useful list: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-geocoders One of the major problems is that the use of the data returned by man
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How can C Programs be so Reliable?(tratt.net)
103 points by ltratt 18y ago|104 comments
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Enhanced backtraces(tratt.net)
1 points by ltratt 18y ago|0 comments
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by ltratt 19y ago
darcs user interface is a joy to behold - it's far easier to get up and running than git, and easier on a day-to-day basis. However even on a one man project, I found that darcs performance problems started to bite after a few hundred check
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by ltratt 19y ago
It isn't a goal of Converge to be Pythonic as such (particularly as Python 2.x is a philosophically different beast to Python 1.4/1.5-ish). My impression of Boo is that its macros are a very different kettle of fish to Converge's compile-ti
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by ltratt 19y ago
Interestingly, nonlocal was part of Converge before it was proposed for Python 3000 (see http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/designing_san... ). It doesn't seem sensible to me to imply that every programming language has to have
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by ltratt 19y ago
It's not an issue of libraries - you're clearly right that new languages are likely to have less impressive libraries. It's partly a matter of syntax - frankly, I can't deal with Lisp's syntactic minimalism (my problem, maybe, but there's a
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Converge (Python-like language with macro-like facilities) 1.0 released(convergepl.org)
29 points by ltratt 19y ago|14 comments
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by ltratt 19y ago
I can only speak from my own experience. If you're genuinely sure you're not in it for the money, you really enjoy the area you're working in, and you're prepared to work in a way you find interesting rather than simply doing what will bump
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by ltratt 19y ago
There are many ways in which academia is non-transparent, but I don't think one journal rejecting double-blind reviewing is a major one. In the areas of computing in which I work not only can I guess who's written a paper (I would estimate
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by ltratt 19y ago
> What should a language do to be a true hundred-year language? > It should make it easier for programmers to write DSLs. Agreed. And there are already a couple of us working on such languages. Have a look at Converge http://conver
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by ltratt 19y ago
I might be the only person here who disagrees in some way with this. I noticed that myself and other people I know only started developing RSI-type symptoms after computers got "fast enough". By that I mean that before that point there were