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by mdhughes 9y ago
Jon Bentley, author of Programming Pearls, which is the clearest explanation of solving the actual problem needed; when I say "software engineering", PP is what I mean. William Kent, author of Data & Reality https:/&#x2F
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by mdhughes 9y ago
You can copy and paste in a CLI as well. I often chain pbcopy/pbpaste (OS X, I used similar but differently-named commands on Linux) into scripts rather than temp files or input files. And ultimately, that's what a pasteboard is:
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by mdhughes 9y ago
Look at the Federated timeline, and find people you like there. If there's a bunch from one instance, consider moving to that instance, and then you can read a local timeline of like-minded people. mastodon.social is sort of the newbie
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by mdhughes 9y ago
Haven't tried it yet, once I get desktop tech demo stable (hopefully this month, barring work & laziness) and can see it run on non-Macs, mobile's the next target. No idea how I'll test Android, I'm a Mac and iOS guy
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by mdhughes 9y ago
Namespaces by 2020? That'd be nice. The \ syntax still makes my eyes bleed a bit, when most others use . or :
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by mdhughes 9y ago
There are only a few "popular" languages that have both, many that don't; those are not mandatory features for everyone. I care about performance (ruling out any GC language), multi-platform native binaries, language readabil
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by mdhughes 9y ago
C has no classes, and everything's in one global namespace. Scheme & LISP have no built-in classes, and one can argue that CLOS isn't what we normally describe as OOP. Both normally have a global namespace. Inheritance in Java
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by mdhughes 9y ago
I've lately been trying out FreePascal for building my indie games (which have in the past been in C, Python, Java, Objective-C, and finally JavaScript), and it's going well enough. There's certainly room for improvement, and
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by mdhughes 9y ago
Well, I got nerd-sniped by this, since lately I've been dumping text in Apple Notes which isn't really suitable for everything. http://markdamonhughes.com/thoughtpy/ Kindly email me bugs, not pull requests.
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by mdhughes 9y ago
Worse is Better http://wiki.c2.com/?WorseIsBetter
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by mdhughes 15y ago
Age and complexity had absolutely nothing to do with why Java didn't get closures in Java 6 or 7. It's purely political.