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by pekk 10y ago
Every large city has car rental places by the airport. That is where they are. It doesn't signify. I'm sure there are people who wouldn't like to visit your home town either.
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by pekk 10y ago
Intel x86 assembler is arguably not a nice API, but most of us are not working at that level any more. The requirements for an instruction set aren't really the same as the requirements for a language well suited to writing, say, video
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by pekk 10y ago
This isn't a dystopian future we can avoid, it is a dystopian present that already happened and we are stuck with it. Almost every page needs JS to use. Almost all JS is thoroughly munged beyond readability. It's normal for even p
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by pekk 10y ago
This battle was lost decades ago, along with semantic markup and needing to enable Javascript to see any text. I don't like it either, but the market took the shortest available path to what it was seeking and now there is no way anyon
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by pekk 10y ago
Which AAA game titles are using that right now?
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by pekk 10y ago
This isn't really a generic issue of "previous attempts" but more specifically LLVM, right?
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by pekk 10y ago
Without addressing the implied question of market validation and user research, there are lots of reasons why power users of such hardware would want something more powerful than an Android platform that is really only usable for installing
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by pekk 10y ago
On a political level, it may often be easier to justify a rewrite which switches languages to take advantage of bullet point features (promotional claims like 10x faster, totally secure, no more bugs, etc.) than it is to simply ask for time
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by pekk 10y ago
Additional hypothesis: the result of this test depends strongly on which one you are more familiar with and which one you prefer. If I hate writing Cobol, I'm going to spend that part of the test pining for the other language and not u
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by pekk 10y ago
Python might do nearly as well as any language could do with multiple inheritance, but "sanely" is relative, like finding the sanest way to drive two cars at once.
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by pekk 10y ago
Instead of blaming the developers every time a feature is missing, consider who is setting the priorities for development. In places where developers are being paid for their work, this is rarely done by the developers themselves. Always in
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by pekk 10y ago
Things happen even in the first 10 minutes. It's not appropriate to limit user studies only to people who are already experts.
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by pekk 10y ago
People with real problems like major clinical depression, severe anxiety that prevents them from leaving the house, schizophrenia, etc. aren't going to be suddenly cured now that you have told them "1 > 0" and all they hav
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by pekk 10y ago
> the best way to understand why a previous relationship didn't work out is to have more relationships. This ignores all the people who are leaving a trail of destruction in their wake without much self-awareness or guilt.
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by pekk 10y ago
Middlebrow dismissal? Memory management is a common concern across languages, and languages which do not include garbage collection tend to host a variety of approaches depending on the author and what sort of thing they were building. Writ
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by pekk 10y ago
The post you are challenging might make more sense if you understand, for example, that many people are using low-level languages that do not offer efficient implementations of data structures, or that "list" types are typically i
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by pekk 10y ago
> once that little script grows into a massive beast you will be glad you can rely on the compiler doing a basic unit test of your program. Not if I bother to write a few suitable unit tests, which I should really be doing anyway. Typech
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by pekk 10y ago
To take an example, Java can be used for a great many things. It's nowhere near as specialized as a tack hammer. So this isn't as easy a decision as you are making out.
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by pekk 10y ago
If you work out a way to model the performance of your own systems based on these benchmarks, then on the way you will discover what is wrong with them. Or switch to Urweb for all your future sites, I guess?
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by pekk 10y ago
Where are the "ease of extension" benchmarks? What kind of data do people look at when they want to prove their language is better, or choose the best language?
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by pekk 10y ago
It says something about the performance that is available from the Python language. This is how Python has always been, starting from the interpret and builtin data structures in CPython which are written in C. That isn't cheating, tha
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by pekk 10y ago
Python always made it possible to use C, that's a design feature. It's ridiculous to characterize this as untrustworthy.
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by pekk 10y ago
> That seems like optimizing for a benchmark. Perish the thought, we've never seen that before in claims about which languages are fastest
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by pekk 10y ago
It's even more concise in APL, assuming you know how to read APL.
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by pekk 10y ago
And if you are mapping not to a value but to the execution of a statement, should that be map instead of for?
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by pekk 10y ago
What real difference does it make whether repeat is a method on integer objects or whether it takes an integer argument?
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by pekk 10y ago
This kind of broken reasoning is common in certain communities. Example: this programming language is broken, it can't be used to write drivers for the Linux kernel!
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by pekk 10y ago
Not to mention what happens if you decide you would like to start writing a little program (as one does on a real Unix system) and realize that you are in a sandbox designed to prevent you from doing that unless you use all the official SDK
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by pekk 10y ago
If the game is working today, in what sense is it "languishing"? We don't say that commercial games made years ago are "languishing," we may even consider them quite successful if they haven't been touched sinc
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by pekk 10y ago
If only Android apps ran in some kind of virtual machine...

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