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by mhd 7y ago
Have a look at Oberon or SmallTalk. Being sane doesn't really help all that much.
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by mhd 7y ago
> cross design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff That sentence made me consider Poe's Law for a while, considering the weird fruits HustleSpeak is bearing quite often. Going by the author's bio, I'm m
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by mhd 7y ago
I'd really like some PostGres sync tool that would allow me to use something like "copy-on-write", i.e. do an upsert on each row, unless some condition evaluates to true, using both target and source data (e.g. target modifie
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by mhd 7y ago
Rewriting bottlenecks in C is pretty much the design philosophy of Tcl. Ousterhout argued that even with dropping down to that level, all over productivity was high enough (and not every developer would need to know the nitty gritty). In th
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by mhd 7y ago
The syntax is quite simple, with only a few rules of evaluation -- too simple for those used to the Algol family, too complex for smug lisp weenies. Then you had the RMS flame war, back when he was still considered influential for programme
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by mhd 7y ago
ksh itself was pretty powerful, and some of its programming features still haven't found their way into bash or zsh. But yeah, the API is a rather direct translation of the somewhat verbose Intrinsics/Motif interface. Compare that
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by mhd 7y ago
On the other hand, if you look at those 8 bit word processors, the reason why PCs were considered "serious" is quite apparent. Going from a C64 word processor to e.g. early versions of WordStar is quite a jump. After that, not a l
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by mhd 7y ago
"Workforce" can be a bit misleading though. If you look at Mad Men, the women were the majority of the ad agency workforce -- in the secretary pool. An interesting statistic would be the gender ratio for people who published paper
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by mhd 7y ago
As usual, the original paper is paywalled, but it appears that this is about transforming ancient Fortran from GOTOs to structured control-flow (if-then, loops etc.). That has almost nothing to do with the spaces-and-braces nitpicking of pr
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by mhd 7y ago
Doesn't meson bring in all of python3 as a dependency for a project? Similar to scons. (It's been a while since I did semi-serious C++, maybe nowadays we're playing a bit more loose with deps and polyglot setups)
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by mhd 7y ago
> It can do everything. For some weird value of 'It'. People went way overboard, but early Java really was as expressive as a stone mask.
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by mhd 7y ago
I was. But thanks for the link, it made me check out the etymology of "Sekt" (sparkling wine) and that was quite surprising.
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by mhd 7y ago
There's a decent Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food The first alternative phrase is hilarious to my German ears.
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by mhd 7y ago
I'm still not sure that those entry-level frameworks using GraphQL aren't repeating Rails' ActiveRecord issues when it comes to more complex data relationships. Both work alright for "blog post" and "user"
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by mhd 7y ago
I think the default Javascript one still can't connect properly to memcache run over a domain socket. So yeah, there's a lot of rust in the client-space.
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by mhd 7y ago
The problem is also that you encounter K/APL in these circumstance, hardcore math functions or ad hoc queries. I'd say that most languages look their worst in these circumstances, deeply nested for loops for e.g. 3D math in C aren
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by mhd 7y ago
Interesting, the second new ML compiler to arrive on the scene, after Morel[1]. [1]: https://github.com/julianhyde/morel
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by mhd 7y ago
In the days of yore, I might've attempted to shoe-horn Tcl in such a situation. Decent event-loop for distributing tasks and (like Lua, but unlike Python/Ruby) more eager to escape to C for performance-sensitive tasks.
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by mhd 7y ago
That is just awesome.
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by mhd 7y ago
That's not specifically about the young not knowing their cultural references anymore, though. People complaining about their offspring in general is as old as time. Although, ironically, a surprising amount of quotes about that aren&#
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by mhd 7y ago
This is getting a bit worse, I think, but it's always been that way. Go further back than your ancient 2004 Anchorman references and you'll get Blade Runner, Star Wars, Princess Bride, etc. One step further and you'll get 200
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by mhd 7y ago
Unless you're really setting out to create something for your already existing home page or great web idea, or you're already a web designer wanting to visit the coding side, too, I think web development is a way too heavy load fo
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by mhd 7y ago
Wren is a great little language in the Lua sector, but more traditional than it (or JavaScript). Use it with the recently announced DOME to get started with some simple games (People, please don't let beginners start with webdev!) htt
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by mhd 7y ago
I think an ideal clearing style would have the resulting shell prompt as an element of the animation. Let's say you've get the matrix digital rain, which resolves into just the prompt "raining" and then resolving into th
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by mhd 7y ago
It's been a while, but I had some fun using the "lemon" parser generator[1] used by SQLite. Worked alright for something where regexes weren't enough and I couldn't be bothered to write a custom parser. Probably has
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by mhd 7y ago
That wouldn't work reliably under Windows, either, as nobody knows anything about files and directories generically anymore. (That's the reason why first the Windows explorer was suddenly sufficent enough and then almost completel
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by mhd 7y ago
If Unix is your yardstick for simplicity, that just shows how far we've come…
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by mhd 7y ago
Inspired wholesale by the same feature in Oberon. And one of the things that makes me miss proper three button mice.
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by mhd 7y ago
We were talking about widget libs and non-cross-platform apps, so PC games didn't come to mind for both reasons. I still mourn the days of shareware.
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by mhd 7y ago
Neat, I wasn't aware of that. Ah, the things that could've been.

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