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by pjmlp 2mo ago
There are CI/CD processes for deployment, versioning problem is solved at least for 30 years. Also it is hardly any different from handling version differences in distributed systems, or split between frontend and backend on Web applic
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I mentioned they aren't the only UNIX where this isn't a problem. Also we cannot use the reasoning Linux means distributions, instead of using GNU/Linux for it, and other times Linux is just the kernel, depending on convenien
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Especially when it is actually successful at what it was designed to be, a faster Python for data science folks, having gotten enough researchers, more than most toy languages that almost daily drop on HN and Reddit.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Java and C# definitely don't belong on the same basket. And inferior to what, the crab?
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
PL/SQL is great and using SQL Developer definitely better than smashing strings together. If only C90 was half as good.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
And Julia as well.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
macOS is a UNIX as well, and it isn't the only UNIX that manages to do accounting properly.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Given your experience, what is your opinion on stored procedures? I love them, think that what can be done in the database should stay in the database, and many of these abstraction on top are all ways to avoid just having to implement them
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yes, we now programm in straight English, and hope the machine gets it right.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
These kind of comments don't age well in the days of AI programming using English.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Or they did a proper Software Engineer degree that teached on how to use SQL properly, including implementing their own toy SQL engine backed by B-Tree indexes, with raw i-node blocks for storage.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
No it is strongly typed, there is no accident that all PL extensions to the base query language have such a Ada/Pascal similarity. Additional DML has plenty of options to enforce rules that keep data consistency. While they make the li
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Only because some people are very opinated in avoiding stored procedures, and think smashing strings together is a much better solution.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
That was one example among many others that I could have chosen from compiled languages, I just happened to chose the very first successful one. I might also add that I was surprised that you lost an opportunity to advocate for D, which wha
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Late stage capitalism, everyone's curve must exponential growth, yet the amount of customers on planet Earth is limited.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Go survey results....
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
In fact, clang is in the process of adding an MLIR layer as well, ClangIR.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Ah the usual barrage of links from Go folks, luckily we have also come prepared. > In three years of Go surveys, lack of generics has always been listed as one of the top three problems to fix in the language. https://blog.go
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Yes there were alternatives. What irks me is this mystical selling point, have you ever tried to write portable C code in K&R C without it being full of #ifdefs? As you point out, people are not curious enough for what is outside of the
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Sure, but as the article points out, had it not been for the change of heart, Xenix light could have been something like Coherent. Having learnt UNIX on Xenix, I know how expensive it was, we had a single tower that the teacher carried on i
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
As did many other compiled languages including those predating C, people should stop putting it on pedestal. Fortran 77 manual for UNIX, https://www.unix.com/man_page/v7/1/f77 You can find plenty of other exa
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It isn't that bad, at least for those of us that like Ada, and feel at home on SQL Developer.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I have read that, yeah it also shows a lot how things changed. As per his interview on Dave's Garage, besides being of an age where he really doesn't need to work, at the time he was involved on getting Linux running on XBox on Az
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Or any other compiled language for that matter. :)
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
Traditional reference how Microsoft was doubling down on UNIX with Xenix, before having a change of heart. The Future of Xenix, Bill Gates Interview on Unix World, back in 1985 https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
It is C++14.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
For starters Metal Shading Language is based on C++14, so naturally any C++17 will fail.
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
I did not dodge the question at all, you just didn't like the answer. "Market pressure for language adoption". Just like all the features they keep adding where they said that Go doesn't need them in first place, turns o
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
One of those functions that isn't really implementable in standard C, requiring either compiler support, or being written in straight Assembly for stack registers manipulation, one of those "micro runtime" features for C. Fro
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by pjmlp 2mo ago
And the documentation, now it is mostly generated, the famous Apple books are now gone, at least the archive is still available.

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