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by mhd 7y ago
I remember way back in the early years of the Third Age, I had to write a process accounting system that supported all kinds of Unices (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux ...). And you're right, there's a plethora of other option
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by mhd 7y ago
UI debuggers haven't changed much from over the years, the Smalltalk-80 debugger looked somewhat similar, if I remember correctly. Wirth just came back from Xerox, and that had a lasting influence on his later work. Anyone got a screen
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by mhd 7y ago
For an example screenshot of the Lilith debugger, have a look at this: http://www.ethistory.ethz.ch/rueckblicke/departemente/dinfk/...
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by mhd 7y ago
JavaScript is Fortran. Used to be Fortran66, now Fortran77, Ratfor is a thing again.
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by mhd 7y ago
There's quite a bit of build management going on with sqlite. Apart from that script, Dr. Hipp wrote his own source code management system[1] to fit his need and if I'm not mistaken they don't write headers by hand[2]. [1]:
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by mhd 7y ago
And Perl has PDL. Not aware of anything for Tcl beyond math::statistics, but I think it waned in popularity way before the ML bubble started inflating. But in my experience, the strategy for Tcl is the inverse of Python when it comes to dom
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by mhd 7y ago
Tcl: No significant difference to Python or Perl It matters even less for Tcl, as it's supposed to tie pieces written in more performant languages together. See "Ousterhout's dichotomy"[1]. Sadly that also moved it close
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by mhd 7y ago
mv ax, 0013h int 10h
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by mhd 7y ago
Dependencies are a general problem, like changing the type of a table that has dependent views. It's a good idea if your database update scripts/migration software can handle something like this. Other databases don't tend to
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by mhd 7y ago
I knew some Amiga programmers who liked it because the different source/target order.
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by mhd 7y ago
Yeah, the pain whenever I have to remember what HLOOKUP is in German. And a similar feature made CSV even worse .
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by mhd 7y ago
As many other said, with the usual amount of keywords it's really not worth it. It's a bit like Italian words for musical theory. International communication beats the slight learning curve by far. Now, if the natural language has
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by mhd 7y ago
Or Beider-Morse. Solr, for example, supports quite a few phonetic matching algorithms by default[1]. [1]: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_4/phonetic-matching.h...
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by mhd 7y ago
> (and better param names!) And/or better param (sub-)types.
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by mhd 7y ago
Neither for the author nor for DJB. I was on the mailing list when dietlibc and libowfat (the alternative, non-traditional, DJB-inspired core library) were created. Was an interesting time and I liked the philosophy way more than e.g. the w
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by mhd 7y ago
If I remember correctly, dietlibc was part of a whole bunch of DJB-fanboy releases by fefe way back when dinosaurs and qmail ruled the earth. Not that much happening since then, I think he's mostly CCC-ish-blogging these days.
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by mhd 7y ago
Hah, not that modern, although I think I thought about getting that Kensington model. I think it was a version of this: https://i.imgur.com/T4MQsEj.jpg
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by mhd 7y ago
Logitech is horrible when it comes to names, apparently every trackball they make is a "Trackman Marble". I think you're talking about the ambidextrous one with two big buttons, two small buttons and the ball in the middle. I
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by mhd 7y ago
I used trackballs pretty heavily years ago, but as that was a TrackMan Marble (PS/2, three buttons, no friggin scrollwheel), I got some issues with my thumb after a few years. I used a huge old one for a while (with a serial adapter
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by mhd 7y ago
Java could do this always, as it's a compiled language (the important thing here is interactivity vs. compilation, not JVM vs. native). So I'd say that Java can do "this" since recently (JDK 9 in 2017) via JShell (I woul
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by mhd 7y ago
Not as exotic as Rust, due to more being in the Algol line of succession than ML's. But boy, on the Algol-tree, it's about as far away from Go as you can, erm, go. The blog poster's predecessor was about as heavy as you can g
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by mhd 7y ago
What about -betterC? I always thought this was a nice "pivot" for D. It would be great to have more support for this direction. You can't avoid malloc there, but maybe some instrumenting for leak detection or some libc replac
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by mhd 7y ago
or ancient sandwiches
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by mhd 7y ago
Is OS 9 single-app mode still an option on Mojave+? It used to work a few versions ago with a hidden setting, but doesn't seem to work like that anymore.
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by mhd 7y ago
I think this is a "Highlander 2" kind of thing. Sequels we wish they'd made but the only thing we got were weird things from alternate timelines.
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by mhd 7y ago
The inverse could've been asked about Python ages ago.
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by mhd 7y ago
Ditch the major version. As the current one is 5.30, the next one will be Perl 31, the next stable is Perl 32.
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by mhd 7y ago
I'm getting some serious Java 1.x flashbacks here, so just give it 20 years…
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by mhd 7y ago
After seeing how the D forum is done, it might be interesting to see a HN->nttp bridge/server. I mean, you could read hn with rn.
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by mhd 7y ago
Weirdly enough, it's mentioned in the "Past Research" section above, but not listed amongst the compilers. Maybe not small enough?

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