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by mhd 6y ago
"@GrimReaper: A/S/L?"
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by mhd 6y ago
This reads a lot like people defending D&D alignments.
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by mhd 6y ago
Speaking of other languages, given that the APE is a zip container, it shouldn't be too hard to have a "starkit" like setup where the binary part is basically node/python/perl/tcl and the main script and all re
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by mhd 6y ago
I think it qemu's itself if run on another platform.
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by mhd 6y ago
It's a neat coincidence that this is on at the same time as an article about CP/M, because I think there could be some overlap in the programs that would be a good fit for cosmopolitan. Sure, there's server appliances like th
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by mhd 6y ago
That was pretty much the general idea of mh, with guys like exmh (Tk) or mh-e (Emacs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MH-E http:/&#x
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by mhd 6y ago
It's easier to parse, especially if your language has lots of keywords that might be part of identifiers, like "begin", "end", "for" and "and" or "or". I think with the Algol-like langu
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by mhd 6y ago
That's an interesting post. Minimal BASIC really deserves its name, being quite a bit more limited than even the ZX80s or VIC-20's BASIC variants. Especially in the educational context, this lead to a lot of languages seemingly fo
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by mhd 6y ago
I do wonder how big his influence was there. Or in general. Given that the company bet highly on this and it involved the whole Windows platform, there were quite a lot of cooks in the kitchen there. So a "designer" probably acts
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by mhd 6y ago
Programming philosophy is an interesting thing, and I don't think it's just a dichotomy. Wirth does have some things in common with the Bell Labs crowd and doesn't quite fit in the same niche as Dijkstra-esque Ivory Tower des
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by mhd 6y ago
Hmm, I've always appreciated Hejlsberg's implementation taste (at least in the first versions of his languages), but did he design that much from scratch? TP was a great compiler, but the language was pretty much taken from previo
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by mhd 6y ago
> Am I missing something? One of its main competitors hasn't exactly been up to Turbo Pascal levels with their own compiliation performance.
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by mhd 6y ago
More likely to be anything else but CS (and frankly, medicine). A doctorate in almost anything plus a smart suit gets you into management track quickly. There's a reason why Germany had quite a number of fake doctorate scandals in poli
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by mhd 6y ago
We still don't do much more customer-facing, we just do a lot more internally. Just judging actually useful features, I'd put a lot of DOS software on favorable grounds compared to your average immutable functional serverless Kafk
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by mhd 6y ago
Most of which would probably more qualify as dialects in natural language terms. We're all mostly speaking broken Algol with some fancy loan words and maybe a slight lisp.
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by mhd 6y ago
Hmm, let me check, I think zsh does have associative arrays and floating point, two features that bash took quite a bit longer to get (and which aren't in the bash in OS X). So at least that's okay. Compound and active variables a
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by mhd 6y ago
Also strips the path and you have to know the extension name(s). For my examples, "cut" would be appropriate. But those substitutions tend to work in anything POSIX, not just bash/zsh.
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by mhd 6y ago
Sure that's counting all processes? My Safari process stays the same size no matter how many tabs, but I'll get a bunch of web content processes. Although that would apply to Chrome, too, of course.
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by mhd 6y ago
Knew most of those, not much interested in "shell plugins". One thing that many people miss are parameter expansions. Those are in Posix, so pretty much any bare shell should be able to use that, too. So dash/bash/zsh&#x
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by mhd 6y ago
Those would be better kerned. This is probably using the default Comic Sans forced to fixed width. Which is predictably bad.
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by mhd 6y ago
> To get access to a wealth of libraries, support, documentation and tools, that D is sorely lacking in. That's certainly a big factor of the network effect. Although, I have to say that I'd probably rate this higher for almost
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by mhd 6y ago
Yeah, we need to make make popular again, to prevent more SSGs and build tools… Maybe rewrite-it-in-rust(tm) without changing the syntax would do the trick.
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by mhd 6y ago
Linus has his own port of the venerable MicroEmacs[1]. As does Walter Bright[2], by the way. qemacs is actually quite advanced, and even includes a basic HTML renderer (for the help). I was half joking that with quickjs, one now can make a
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by mhd 6y ago
Do you run your microservices as CGIs or from inetd? Or why does the start overhead matter that much?
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by mhd 6y ago
Yeah, Idera, tell me how great Delphi was before you friggin' ruined it, like everything you touch. Anyway, we've recently had "FoxPro" guest-star here, and Delphi definitely was one that took its lunch money. Decent sma
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by mhd 6y ago
There's still some excellent documentation out there. But basically what happened is the immediate response cycle of the Internet. You don't know what to do? Well, google it, look up Stack Overflow, open an issue or write the com
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by mhd 6y ago
The whole xBase universe is quite fascinating. It might not have been as revolutionary as spreadsheets, but having databases on your homecomputer/PC covers a lot of use cases for regular people and small businesses. Heck, a lot of what
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by mhd 6y ago
I meant the regular toolbars underneath the menus (in MFC it was CToolbar, I think), that in Win95 were a set of regular icon buttons, including a beveled edge. Within a few Office and OS versions, that changed to first dropping the beveled
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by mhd 6y ago
DBUS would probably be closer to DCOM or even the Amiga's ARexx ports. Granted, with that plus XEmbed, you could get a lot of the benefits without an explicit object model/component system, but I haven't seen that done a lot
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by mhd 6y ago
Just like Mono was?

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