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mclehman
9y ago
I was very pro-Atom for a while. I've since packed up and moved to Vim and then on to Emacs with evil-mode. I never had any performance complaints while I was actually using Atom, but a while back I made a mistake when generating a tex
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Oh, awesome, thank you. I hadn't looked on CPAN directly yet and general searches apparently weren't coming up with relevant CPAN results. CljPerl[1] is right along the lines of the sort of project I was thinking of doing. I didn&
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I think they meant that function parameters are vectors when defining a function: (defn foo [arg1 arg2 & rest] ...) As for data-structure literals, it's nice to be able to write [1 2 3] vs (vec '(1 2 3)) {:key1 &
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I thought the same as you did when I first saw it and got a bit sad. I'm actually considering trying to implement something like Lisp Flavored Perl a la Lisp Flavoured Erlang as my senior thesis/project this year. I'm kind of
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9y ago
Returning a result and modifying a data structure you've decided to use as an accumulator are two different things. Modifying the original structure is even more different. Most of the traditionally non-functional languages don't
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I think their aim was to highlight the distinction between a language and an implementation of that language and possibly argue that only a particular implementation should be referred to as compiled/interpreted.
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At least personally, I make recurring payments in euros rather than US dollars and it can be a hassle to see what the actual exchange rate used will be. I also have the option to pay with Bitcoin (and even receive a small discount for it) a
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My guess is going to be the sound quality.
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Personally, I'm a fan of the Perl philosophy: make the easy things easy and the hard things possible.