ludamad

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by ludamad 12y ago
Seemed normal to me really
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by ludamad 12y ago
It's nice to develop code with the possibility of plugging in LuaJIT though, and the language is indeed excellent - so much in fact that I can do with ignoring post 5.1 features
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by ludamad 12y ago
Sadly though a huge Lua fan I tend to ignore any advancements not also made in LuaJIT for pragmatic reasons. Full-width 64bit integers would be very nice but LuaJIT cannot do them sadly without boxing or widening its current 64bit tagged
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by ludamad 12y ago
I second the motion in the comments that people should pedantically correct "statistically significant" as "statistically detectable".
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by ludamad 12y ago
This is indeed really great. I love targeting LuaJIT with toy languages, and this is more direct than compiling to Lua.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Slowness may have unintended benefits, but also forces you to use C code where you otherwise might have been OK
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by ludamad 12y ago
Fun story, I literally cried in class when my elementary teacher insistently spent a whole lesson teaching BEDMAS wrong.
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by ludamad 12y ago
It'd be nice if the examples had syntax highlighting.
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by ludamad 12y ago
In general I'm not sure, but certain substances give you the impression that time is going by very slowly.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Right, that's probably saner. Also, more reason to try and get use to Vimperator again.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Very nice. It first struck me as just a curiousity but honestly I would consider using a browser plugin like this that let me edit web forms with something like this, picking up my local ~/.vimrc. That or for the various interactive c
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by ludamad 12y ago
Well I was thinking of little things like Protocol Buffers, which can interoperate with many parent languages, but are so close to data they don't require deep thinking. Edit: RE "Not same level as SQL", I meant in standardiz
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by ludamad 12y ago
Sure I know about DSLs in Lisps and such, but I don't think LISP DSLs are quite on the level of SQL. If everyone creates their own DSLs I don't think it has the same impact.
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by ludamad 12y ago
My person vision is lots of tiny languages that work together in such a way that you don't have to get out of their sweet spot. Of course, I'm not sure if its possible to do this nicely.
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by ludamad 12y ago
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Strategy.html#l1 User interface aside, it's pretty serious work.
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by ludamad 12y ago
That's a lossy short answer. LuaJIT with JIT turned off still runs circles around CPython.
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by ludamad 12y ago
There's http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Template_Haskell , for one
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by ludamad 12y ago
But, evolution continues
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by ludamad 12y ago
So apparently if you use open source by people from oppressive regimes you should delete their names, or they might go to prison forever
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by ludamad 12y ago
I was just alluding to the fact that garbage collection runtimes are quite less than ideal if another system calls into them sporadically. It just doesn't fit well for software libraries intended to be language-agnostic.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Actually, many people have been waiting long for such a language to come out, and are very excited about Rust for good reasons. Managed languages solve a large set of problems, but introduce two big problems as I see it: - Cause nondetermin
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by ludamad 12y ago
I do wonder its relative strength to a human skull
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by ludamad 12y ago
It should probably not display 0.00% for everything 'in the future', I thought for a second it was implying massive iOS8 adoption.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Right, this confused me too. He mentions 4.0 will be 'more likely than 3.10', but never explains why.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Note that this can be used for static functions, I don't think anyone would find it in an API documentation. The real reason I see for this is reducing voodoo in template libraries, eg forwarding a call T::something() for a generic typ
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by ludamad 12y ago
There is luvit, too
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by ludamad 12y ago
It's definitely an idea I've thought about a lot (and would gladly work on). I really think strictly using plain-text as the interface to the compiler is a dead-end for language design. Language designers base features around what
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by ludamad 12y ago
Javascript seems to be in some feedback loop where so much is written in Javascript that so many people learn Javascript that it increasingly seems sensible to write more things in Javascript.
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by ludamad 12y ago
Personally I find the name misleading. Something like 'Jo' makes more sense to me (not that I'm advocating it as a pretty name).
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by ludamad 12y ago
Glad to see this moving along.

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