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by mhd 4y ago
It's more the other way 'round, as Idera only cares for big corporate customers (cf. Sencha). And FP/Lazarus was a bit late to the party. Mindshare is easily lost and nigh impossible to regain.
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by mhd 4y ago
Wasn't this a somewhat common opinion 10+ years ago, when it looked increasingly C++ in its split of user bases (weird operators for one, less boilerplate Java for others)? I mean, that's how we got languages like Ceylon, Fantom o
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by mhd 4y ago
Sometimes I wish Borland wouldn't have been so successful with TP/Delphi, because a popular Modula-2 might have outlived the company's gruesome death.
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by mhd 4y ago
Pascal, Euclid, Ada - any other languages from the Algol family named after mathematicians? Probably stopped after Wirth himself deviated from the "pattern".
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by mhd 4y ago
What's the minimum Clang for this? I've been playing around with old versions of MacOS recently and most of the "Let's keep some old version of Firefox alive" projects are failing or bound to. Sooner or later this m
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by mhd 4y ago
> GObject is a real tragedy of the NIH syndrome in open source. It is, but I wouldn't look at Objective-C as the previous invention. X11 already hat the Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt), and it's not like they were unknown to the develo
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by mhd 4y ago
I do miss the Booch cloud diagrams, they brought a bit of whimsy to OOD.
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by mhd 4y ago
What current LOGO implementation would you recommend?
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by mhd 4y ago
I think when people talk about ATM transaction involving Cobol, it's more about the server software responding, not the one running on terminals. Having said that, I wouldn't be too surprised if old green screen ATMs would have us
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by mhd 4y ago
I thought people got along with Rust due to its features and semantics and learned to live with the syntax. Not it being something one would copy. (I'm personally still hoping for a Ratfor/Coffeescript transpiler) Also, wonder how
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by mhd 4y ago
As a RPG recommendation, I'm not too familiar with the current Hite-led V5 version. In the bad analogy section? Good question. I mean, it sells itself as being quite different, but there's way more legacy than they'd accept (
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by mhd 4y ago
Perl is HERO. There's a module for everything, but the core isn't as exact/rigid as GURPS. ;) (Having modules for everything would fit JS, too, but I'm not mean enough to call any RPG out as being the same as that.)
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by mhd 4y ago
Militaristic as a use case, industrial as a design methodology. It's the only system I'm aware of that has a ballistic justification for both damage and armor (at least in 4E, for non-medieval weaponry). I myself like GURPS a lot.
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by mhd 4y ago
Let me get into the exact opposite direction of the other main thread: We're on hacker news, so you might like to fiddle around with things a bit too much. In which case, TTRPGs got your back, too. First of all, regardless of the sys
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by mhd 4y ago
Averaging out people dying to "days lost per life"?
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by mhd 4y ago
Thanks, I knew there was something like that already, but it's hard to keep all the Don Hopkins posts memorized ;) (Speaking of whom: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html )
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by mhd 4y ago
I'd rather see DPS than the current hodgepodge of technologies, but that's part of having given up on the whole original concept and accepting that we're deep into the mire of the web as an application delivery system. For su
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by mhd 4y ago
I think the choice of first language really says a lot about the whole program. More so today than yesteryear, where there was a larger contigent of people with prior exposure to programming. Do you start more abstract, and if so with fun
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by mhd 4y ago
Ah, Modula-3, one of my perennial favorites. Definitely a different continuation of Modula-2 than Wirth's own Oberon. Agree on the tooling issues. If it would've "sold" better, so many languages of the last two decades c
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by mhd 4y ago
The timeline does skip a bit too fast over Medos-2[1], the predecessor of the Lilith's operating system, using Modula-2. That plugs the gap between the Alto-Oberon timeline, with Oberon basically being both a continuation of that and a
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by mhd 4y ago
You're missing one step here, as the "next Pascal" was Oberon's predecessor Modula-2. For which there were some 8/16-bit compilers around, including a Turbo Modula-2 . Didn't seem to work out back than for a f
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by mhd 4y ago
I don't know what definition of TUI we're using, but if we're talking about ncurses style whole-terminal-window GUI, there's no inherent advantage. Responsiveness being limited by character width actually sets harder lim
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by mhd 4y ago
> Oberon is very much in active use at ETH Zürich. We used it as one of our main operating systems. The article being from 2009, this must've been an interesting period for the students, as back then the introductory programming cou
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by mhd 4y ago
Lisp has had some pretty decent standards for years - Common Lisp and Scheme. Both with stellar books about them. And at least two or three implementation for your particular niche (well, at least once CMUCL wasn't the only game in the
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm getting a "Dr Blair, Dr Blair, Dr Jay Hamilton, Dr Jay Hamilton..." vibe.
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by mhd 4y ago
How many processes does this involve, i.e. `make -jX` for which X?
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by mhd 4y ago
Those early DTP applications all made good use of graphical interfaces, so a few others used GEM, too (e.g. Office Publisher). It's been a while, but didn't early versions of PageMaker even include Windows (2.0), if you didn'
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by mhd 4y ago
So we're getting closer to Escape from New York's enclaves than Stephenson's "burbclaves" (gated communities taken to the extreme)?
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by mhd 4y ago
We're all reinventing Modula-3.
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by mhd 4y ago
I have a "Delphi for Kids" book which included a free version of the lowest Delphi tier. And yes, sure, I guess you can do the same with the current community version, but it does show how broadly Delphi was aimed and received.

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