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by paultag 13y ago
(author here) Thanks! Pairing the fonts took a little while, and fiddling with it took a bit of time - so thank you! :) Yeah. The goal here isn't to stir the pot in the middle of a massive flame-war, but it's the sort of thing whe
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by paultag 13y ago
(author here) D'aw, thanks so much. I really appreciate that. I identify as a OS-level hacker, and very focused on code , not design , so it means a lot to hear such kind words when I put a bit of effort into it. Thank you!
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by paultag 13y ago
In case anyone wants to learn more: Repo: https://github.com/hylang/hy (star it, fork it) Lightning Talk from PyCon: http://blog.pault.ag/day/2013/04/02 Hour long Boston
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by paultag 13y ago
I'll have you know this will now become one of the official Hy mottos
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by paultag 13y ago
This started out as a joke for PyCon / teaching folks how to use Python AST, and it's grown to be kinda useful for a few things -- Macros aren't there yet, and the language is immature / special-snowflake about some thin
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by paultag 13y ago
Totally. Hy will even auto-expand a lambda to a function if it's not sane Pythonically :)
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by paultag 13y ago
We don't have control of the runtime - the runtime is actually just Python -- in fact, a generated Hy .pyc can run on a system without Hy installed on it - so keeping it compliant to anything would just be insane. We're also tak
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by paultag 13y ago
That's right, I sure am :)
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by paultag 13y ago
Hey there, hy author here - the issue is TCO requires (basically) a GOTO like command, the Python AST doesn't have this -- which is depressing, yes. I'd love ideas on doing TCO, but I don't think it's easily doable with