shawn_w

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by shawn_w 2y ago
I put off learning awk for literal decades because I knew perl, but then I picked it up and wish I had done so earlier. I still prefer perl for a lot of use cases, but in one-liners, awk's syntax makes working with specific fields a lo
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by shawn_w 2y ago
`perl -lne ...` to have perl strip the trailing newlines like awk does. Should give the same result with it.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Modern Scheme standards (R6RS and R7RS) have native record types.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
I get a lot of links to local businesses that have nothing to do with what I'm searching for. DDG has really dropped off in quality over the last couple of years. I'm about ready to try that paid search engine that keeps being men
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by shawn_w 2y ago
I was in camp Afterstep for years. Still use it now and then in a VM with NetBSD.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
It was sold to something called Prosus in 2021 for a tidy 1.8 billion USD
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by shawn_w 2y ago
You can change the order answers are displayed in to one of a few different sorting methods... The accepted answer hasn't automatically been the first one shown since 2021. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/410859&#
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Management listens to the community by doing the exact opposite of what most people want to see.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
One common mistake people unfamiliar with how SO works make is confusing "accepted answer" with "best answer". They're often different; accepted just means the person who posted the question found it useful. >The
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Presumably anything that walks the syntax tree.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
I have a few Swatches (wearing one now, actually), but even if the Moonswatch was sold online and not only in their stores (none even remotely near me), I doubt I'd get one. I like some of the color ways, but the price is hard to justi
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by shawn_w 2y ago
`fdopen()` is a lot simpler.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
>I do find it quite difficult to read Scheme code that comprises of a million nested lambdas all with vague, single-letter variable names, though. There's no reason to write Scheme code like that. Or in Common Lisp, or any other lan
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Reddit-wise, you posted on /r/Common_Lisp but not /r/lisp, which has a lot more subscribers and activity.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
It was better next year.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
That looks more like APL.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
But then they'll both be the wrong color.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Umbrella Academy? And Tiny Toons many years earlier.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl6::Form for a modern less idiosyncratic version. https://metacpan.org/pod/Term::Table or https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Table for simple table fo
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Winter is coming.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Oh, there's a lot of darkness in the Garrett books too.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
If you know the name ahead of time, syntax parameters[1] (if your scheme supports them) work well. syntax-case lets you break hygiene to insert new names in a controlled fashion (but has issues with names known ahead of time; see linked pap
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Or... Just release your program under the GPL.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Chicken has a Common Lisp style `loop` egg: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/loop I think it's based on a more generic Scheme version but I don't have a link to the original. SLIB has an implementation
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by shawn_w 2y ago
No, having embedded dsls that aren't just treated as strings, but as integral parts of the system that get syntax checks etc. at compile time and that analyzers can understand.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Racket calls it language oriented programming.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Most implementations of that second group of languages are written in C, and run on operating systems written in C. It's really no contest that C has had far more of an influence on computing. So much software would not exist, or not i
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by shawn_w 2y ago
Common Lisp, of course, has built in hash tables. MacLisp doesn't seem to - I didn't see anything about them in the Pitmanual. ZetaLisp/LML and InterLisp have them. So it seems like built in lisp associative arrays (I'm
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by shawn_w 2y ago
The number of offspring in each litter tends to drop with increasing size, too.
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by shawn_w 2y ago
There are even programs these days where people are sent home while still technically being admitted to a hospital, with a nurse coming by on a regular basis to administer medications, change dressings, provide other needed care, etc. Docto

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