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by pwpwp 15y ago
Git was designed for the Linux kernel, and it's simply not big: a couple thousand files, broken up into directories of dozens or hundreds of files. http://www.schoenitzer.de/lks/lks_en.html#new_files
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by pwpwp 15y ago
any info on hygiene?
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by pwpwp 15y ago
A lot of people are under the misapprehension that Lisp is a failure in the marketplace, when in fact many industrial applications use Lisp. Start with the following list: http://wiki.alu.org/Industry%20Application
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by pwpwp 15y ago
OT: RSS feed link hidden behind javascript and no autodisco? Uff.
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Tutorial on D Ranges(ddili.org)
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by pwpwp 15y ago
Instead of whether we should use Pi or 2*Pi, I find much more interesting R. Buckminster Fuller's statements that "Pi is operationally irrelevant" and that "Nature is not using Pi". "Inasmuch as the kind of mathematics I had learned of in s
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by pwpwp 15y ago
[OT] Scala is definitely the current hot spot for PL drama
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by pwpwp 15y ago
The best semantics for fexprs are probably Kernel's: a fexpr receives as parameters (1) the AST (2) the lexical environment in which the fexpr is called . (This dynamic lexical environment is given in addition to the captured static lex
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by pwpwp 15y ago
no
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by pwpwp 15y ago
Adding a "complexity safety switch" kind of defeats the claim that your language isn't complex.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
I don't know Scala, but from a PR perspective it sounds like a quite bad idea.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
It does explain why Unity is such crap, though.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
The ill-typed value could come from anywhere in the program.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
A call stack doesn't help you. Consider: pig = mammal; doSomethingWith(pig); Now, inside doSomethingWith(), an error happens. The point where the type error happened (pig = mammal) is not on the stack.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
Looks interesting. When I read "modern PL principles" I was afraid to read about auto-generated getters and setters or something. :P
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by pwpwp 15y ago
In all cases, it will read better than shadowing would have. You are going against the consensus established by ALGOL and Scheme (and used by most languages in the functional camp since then) here. That's your prerogative of course, but
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by pwpwp 15y ago
[Shadowing] prevents you from making use of the original value for the remainder of the current scope. That's totally false. In languages like Scheme, O'Caml, etc you are never prevented from using the original value. The point is that
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by pwpwp 15y ago
If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade. Yes, that's how I remember it t
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by pwpwp 15y ago
I'm curious as to the tech details myself. One problem of classic bittorrent for livestreaming, afaiu, is that it derives its speed from downloading pieces of a file randomly. For livestreaming, you probably need a different algorithm.
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by pwpwp 15y ago
yes, it's a bit of a joke
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by pwpwp 15y ago
the horror
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by pwpwp 15y ago
In short, the problem with covariant generics is that you can put a Banana in a Basket<Apple> (because a Basket<Apple> IS A Basket<Fruit>).
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by pwpwp 15y ago
https://github.com/manuel/edgelisp (Lisp->JavaScript compiler) https://github.com/manuel/ell (Lisp->C compiler) https://github.com/manuel/schampignon (Kernel interpreter in JS)
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by pwpwp 15y ago
Let's not forget the Stoned Beaver (2.6.0-test10).
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by pwpwp 15y ago
I find "production mode" and the motivation for it in this article highly irritating. If I declare a variable to hold only numbers, I'd expect that to hold, no matter what (or get a runtime error immediately). I wouldn't want my program to
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by pwpwp 15y ago
5 years of Unity? http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
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Musings on Dart(jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)
6 points by pwpwp 15y ago|0 comments
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Golomb-coded sets: smaller than Bloom filters(giovanni.bajo.it)
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by pwpwp 15y ago
I'm collecting JS cryptography tools here: http://www.delicious.com/manuel/javascript+crypto
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by pwpwp 15y ago
there are certain similarities to other very-low-operator-count languages - the big difference is that with Kernel's fexprs, you can go from this handful of operators to a fully-featured language more expressive than Scheme, and do so with

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