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by rrwo 4y ago
A lot of code from The Art of Prolog that used some form of accumulator data structure as a third argument to predicates.
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by rrwo 4y ago
If they get a warrant from a court, they can open the safe. As the question is about granting access to accounts after death, it seems an odd worry. The government is also likely to get access to your data from your Google, Facebook, etc. I
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by rrwo 4y ago
Markdown is not markup. It's in the name. The point of markdown is to be readable by humans, using similar annotations that people have been using in ASCII text emails for decades.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Please describe those uniquely bad aspects of Perl that other scripting languages aren't.
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by rrwo 4y ago
When I learned Perl, the syntax reminded me of C and bash. The magic variables are also from bash. Maybe because I knew C and some bash and awk, Perl wasn't alien to me at all. Coming from a Pascal and Java background, it was a breath
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by rrwo 4y ago
I don't think Perl is/was any harder to learn than C. Easier, in fact, since you don't have to worry about making a mistake with pointers. I've not found colleagues who learned Java or C# first have had trouble learning
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by rrwo 4y ago
The implementation is open source and not owned by a for-profit company that could decide to kill it off in the future. This is a good thing, because it means that we don't have to worry about a program running on one implementation vs
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by rrwo 4y ago
That's a problem with the codebase at your place of work, not the language.
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by rrwo 4y ago
A better question is: is anyone planning on moving from Perl to Raku, or from Perl to another language? At $work, we're sticking with Perl [reasons elsewhere in this thread]. But if we were going start projects in other languages, it w
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by rrwo 4y ago
No. The Perl interpreter has been regular updated and improved. There's a new release of Perl every six months, and the libraries on CPAN provide access to various other kinds of technology and tooling.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Also, there are many more new languages and newer development framework that have appeared in the last 20+ years.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes. At my $work, most of our code is in Perl, roughly a half-million lines of it dating back to the mid-1990s. There's no point in rewriting it in something else, since the cost in resources to do that would outweigh the potential sal
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by rrwo 4y ago
I think this is the original citation, "Intrinsic glassy-metallic transport in an amorphous coordination polymer" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05261-4 I really mistrust newspaper articles about
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by rrwo 4y ago
> After purchase of the device, there should be no tethering by the manufacturer. Or a service provider like a mobile carrier or cable company.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Actually, I should answer the questions: > ... terms of processes, design principles, work-life balance, compensation. Are things better now than they were back then? We didn't have an official process or follow any design principle
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by rrwo 4y ago
I was working in Pascal, C and assembly about 30 years ago, mostly in DOS and Windows 3. By 1995 I started dabbling with websites, and within a couple of years was working mostly with Perl CGI and some Java, on Windows and Linux/NetBSD
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by rrwo 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the COM (stands for something like "COre Memory image") file format is limited to 64k, and was intended to be loaded into the same memory location. It dates back to CP/M days.
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by rrwo 4y ago
> Even without connections, a former billionare will rise faster and easier than someone used to poverty That's nonsense. If a billionaire ended up destitute and anonymous without their connections, living in the street, they&#x27
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by rrwo 4y ago
Physical AND mental health. If one of those goes, the other will start to fail.
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by rrwo 4y ago
And dining as someone with allergies is more inconvenient.
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by rrwo 4y ago
My experience with some restaurants is that they don't. The QR menu is just a PDF of the printed menu.
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by rrwo 4y ago
That costs money, and some restaurants already struggle with higher costs and fewer customers.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Fair point.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It isn't lobbying, it's uncontrolled campaign contributions. When spending money is equated with speech, and corporations are given the same free speech rights as people, and you allow anonymous shell corporations... You end up wi
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by rrwo 4y ago
It's even worse when you you don't have internet access, and have to use a restaurant WiFi that requires you to sign up. Also, if you are dining with someone who has a food allergy, then all the "convenience" of online m
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by rrwo 4y ago
Many years ago I found something similar with Firefox. I notified them (they had a legal category for bug reports, if I recall correctly), and they dealt with it quickly. It's really important to report thibgs lime this to the develope
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by rrwo 4y ago
Also, for social invitations, "If it's not absolutely yes, it's definitely no." Life is too short to waste your free time being somewhere that you don't want to be. (It's also easier to change a "no"
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by rrwo 4y ago
Your job isn't your identity. Your job is there to subsidize what you want to do with your life.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It's a distraction from saying that the US public health system failed to deal with it. The system (like in most countries) failed to detect that new and potentially virus was circulating for months. The system failed in encouraging pe
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by rrwo 4y ago
It doesn't absolve anyone, it's a distraction

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