sklogic

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by sklogic 10y ago
Parsing is a solved problem. Any other research in this area is done out of curiosity, not necessity.
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by sklogic 10y ago
A huge number of London commuters could not vote, being stuck in the trains thanks to Govia scumbags.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Class divide existed pretty much forever. Now it is just more obvious than ever.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> it tends to be much easier to provide good error messages with a recursive-descent parser It is not any more complicated with a parser generator (if it's a PEG-based one). In fact, it's much easier, you're avoiding a lot
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by sklogic 10y ago
LL(n) can be limiting indeed. But you can easily mix, say, PEG and Pratt. Because where else do you need LR-like parsing but in the binary expressions, the C-style dot syntax and so on.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Linear scan register allocation is "good enough" in most cases and it is trivial if you're doing it on top of an SSA.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Compilers are in general far simpler than interpreters, especially if you're trying to build an interpreter with a reasonable performance. For a simple language compiler is nothing more than a chain "parse -> strip off syntax s
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by sklogic 10y ago
There is nothing wrong with the idea per se. It's just implemented badly in Python. Instead of allowing unlimited abstraction, which is the only way to unlock this desired simplicity on all possible levels, they're limiting the ab
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by sklogic 10y ago
I used punchcards. It definitely required more learning than a video terminal.
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by sklogic 10y ago
I'm talking about the people with high IQ. Most of them are guilty of the same "from A straight to Z" mistake, unfortunately.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Actually, no. I believe Python is exactly the opposite thing, despite preaching some of the right ideas. Python is too low level, and therefore it invites obscure solutions that hides the real meaning behind layers upon layers of low level,
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Their solutions may take a bit of learning but it pays off. Solution that takes a bit of learning is always worse than a solution that does not need any learning and is obvious to anyone, even to someone in my IQ range.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Try to look at a smart-ass solution and compare it to a good, solid, dumb solution. The former is A->"some-obscure-magic"->D, while the latter would be like "A->B->C->D" with each step explained in an ELI5
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by sklogic 10y ago
And this is exactly why "smart" people are counterproductive. Their "smart" solutions are not reproducible.
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by sklogic 10y ago
I mean, write a compiler for a reasonable subset of a language you're learning. You can use the language itself to do so, yet most languages are not necessarily designed for writing compilers, so it's ok to use something else inst
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Compilers are hard. Could have been true in 1980s. Not any longer.
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by sklogic 10y ago
IMHO the best way to learn any language is to build its compiler.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> Think of a movie that was impactful to you I cannot name a single movie that was not dull compared to a book it was based upon.
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by sklogic 10y ago
> "It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period." What a pathetic load of hogwash. Video is the slowest possible way of conveying any meaningful information.
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by sklogic 10y ago
"Avoid success at all costs!"
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by sklogic 10y ago
Does it matter at all if she's a female? She is just a minority in terms of preferences. If a male wanted to watch, say, football while the rest of the crowd settled on a baseball, things would not have been any different. In the airco
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by sklogic 10y ago
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from a malice.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Interesting perspective, I never looked at Trurl as a "god-like" being.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Despite being interested in this topic, I simply could not even read the article. Guess it is a legitimate contribution to a discussion to warn about this issue.
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by sklogic 10y ago
It is informative enough for an author (if he's around) to take an action. Anyone else should just pass by, nothing to see here.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Chrome on Android - not scrollable close to the right edge.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Fast-schmast, I do not care, cannot read anything at all (chrome on android).
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by sklogic 10y ago
Wtf? Cannot read anything on a right edge. Performance is irrelevant.
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by sklogic 10y ago
What about the better typed languages - Coq, Agda, Idris, etc.? Java is not that strongly typed after all.
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by sklogic 10y ago
Unreadable on mobile

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