mikethe

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by mikethe 2mo ago
I am in discussion now with a colleague on the subject of c++/rust, so there will be greater clarity on that soon.
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by mikethe 2mo ago
I should make this clearer. On the one hand, the art of unix programming claims that object-orientation only succeeds at solving certain problems by creating something sufficiently complex that the human mind can barely cope. Then I read t
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by mikethe 2mo ago
I am currently exploring languages, operating systems.. my conclusions so far are that the two fish in the pond are plan9, and oberon. I am also aware of Geoff Collyers criticisms of RISC-V, and the criticisms of oberon of principia-softwa
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by mikethe 9mo ago
Well, we basically agree on how I should go about it, which is good :-) Jehanne is now on my radar..
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by mikethe 9mo ago
"Why?" Because of what Raymond said. He said two things that I remember fairly clearly: 1) If you have to resort to OO to solve your problems, you probably have another unresolved problem at a higher level. This is from near the
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by mikethe 9mo ago
Greetings again.. I have now read more of the book on oberon, and confess that I lost traction. It seems very clear that he is using objects, and my bias against them is very strong. I have heard it said that both oberon and plan9 are bea
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by mikethe 10mo ago
"Should be cast in bronze" comes to mind.
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by mikethe 10mo ago
To clarify, you obviously understand OO better than most, certainly much much much better than I do. I happen to have Wirth's book on oberon here, have started reading it. So possibly, eventually, I will reach your level. :-)
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by mikethe 10mo ago
OO is a big issue here. Or rather, in general. I have read "The Art of Unix Programming", where a very big fuss is made over object-orientation. It's like they want to take a really big gun that means big business, and sho
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by mikethe 10mo ago
"Simpler is not automatically better. If a language is too "simple" (i.e. minimalist), the complexity often shifts from the language specification to the application code, requiring more boilerplate or "clever" tric
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by mikethe 10mo ago
Super helpful! Thank you!
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by mikethe 10mo ago
Thanks!
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by mikethe 10mo ago
..thank you.. I am very curious at the moment about why my post shows up a lighter shade of gray than others. I have done some searching, and apparently this can have something to do with people down-voting something, maybe if it seems to
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Ask HN: Oberon et al., vs. Rust
17 points by mikethe 10mo ago|37 comments