progman

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by progman 12y ago
I always wonder why people talk about LyX, TeX, LaTeX and all kinds of TeX IDEs while TeXmacs (WYSIWYG) is mentioned almost never. http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/screenshots.en.html https://en.wikipedia.
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by progman 13y ago
> does intel cooperate with NSA? Intel and NSA are not the problem. The real problem are hackers who want to steal our bank accounts, or the commercial providers who want to have all our private data to sell it secretely. For such daily
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by progman 13y ago
> I settled on a PocketBook Interesting. Which model?
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by progman 13y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty good analogy explanation. I like the idea of monads being "programmable semicolons" which are used to inject side effects between purely functional applications. So if I understand monads correctly then they
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by progman 13y ago
I have used Nimrod daily for several months now, and I fully agree. It is actually one of the most productive languages that I have encountered so far. Perhaps you should add two more things to your feature list: 1.) Native Perl syntax 2.)
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by progman 13y ago
Thanks, I will take a closer look at it. I hope this is a hierarchical solution so that I won't need to download the whole cabal stack for any new project.
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by progman 13y ago
Haskell's power is impressive but the "Cabal hell" is a serious problem. Recently I tried to get into Haskell. I've installed EclipseFP and the first sessions looked nice. But when I started to use external cabal modules
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by progman 13y ago
> I really want to start using Nimrod for real work. I have actually used both Rust and Nimrod for real work (same project, first Rust then rewrite in Nimrod). My experience is that Nimrod is far easier to handle than Rust. It feels like
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by progman 13y ago
> the 1M LOC code is much too bloated for the modern age. Why reinvent the wheel? Emacs works well enough, and computers are getting faster every generation. Many editors appeared, they all had the chance to make Emacs obsolete but they
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by progman 13y ago
Interesting. I'll take a closer look at it.
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by progman 13y ago
Not yet. I am working on a replacement for the Asciidoc/Docbook toolchain which I am not satisfied with. It handles an extended version of Asciidoc and aims to produce code for a few output formats (HTML, TeX).
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by progman 13y ago
Thanks - but your example is Python code ??
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by progman 13y ago
Nimrod provides the features which I wanted to have when I developed with Python: type system, Perl regex, range subtypes, easy C interface. native compiler(s). I know PyPy but Nimrod needs much less space to compile.
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by progman 13y ago
Some very interesting features of Nimrod which I would like to emphasize: - clean Pythonic syntax (whitespace relevant but tabs are forbidden) - native Perl syntax for regular expressions (slide 42) - subrange types as in Ada - set types as
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by progman 13y ago
Pyret looks very promising. Keep on the good work! But please remove the minus sign from identifiers! I am concerned that people may abstain from Pyret for this simple reason. It is really annoying to embrace every operator with blanks. Tha
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by progman 13y ago
If you need C++ for a living then you have no other option. If you want to enjoy programming then I recommend to stay away from C++. I have written a lot of software in C and C++ in my programming career but C++ is not fun anymore. There a
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by progman 13y ago
It is the job of the hackers to think about the whole mess, and to develop solutions that actually work and which guarantee freedom of speech to us. Hacking insecure systems is one thing but now they have the opportunity to prove how smart
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by progman 13y ago
A mainboard with such a feature just needs a hidden remotely accessible subsystem that is completely protected by TPM and which has access to your system through DMA, to read bytes and to write bytes in whatever system (RAM, Harddisks, SDca
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by progman 13y ago
It is even worse. The attempt to escape into OSS/Linux is a step in the right direction. But as long as we are dependent on mass consumer hardware then there is always a risk of being spied through hardware backdoors. In this case it d
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by progman 13y ago
I believe most people who learned programming with C, Java, VB or Python have a hard time to learn Haskell, Forth and Lisp because of their approach. If you really want to "get" Haskell, Forth and Lisp you have to "think&quot
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by progman 13y ago
First developments of an LT mode for Emacs: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LightTable https://github.com/Fuco1/litable Also interesting discussion at: http://www.reddit.com/r/
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by progman 13y ago
Global surveillance with RFID I heard rumors that many (if not all) citizens in the western world already have RFID chips in clothes, shoes, bags etc. so that everyone could be tracked right now. I think that's not just a rumor. The qu