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by snapdangle 8y ago
I think it is rather more related to team size than codebase size, really. Think of how much can be done with a small group of people who all speak the same dialect / lingo. If everyone is on the same page WRT code style, then TMTOWTDI
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Perl 6 does it without the sigil outside the bracket :) "I have {some-complex-calc($i)} frobitzes"
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by snapdangle 8y ago
The linguistic target Larry Wall aims at has little to do with uttering the line of code out loud.. The attempt to mirror human language is in the flexibility of the constructs. This is the much maligned There Is More Than One Way To Do It
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Thanks for pointing out this Python similarity!
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Duke Nukem Forever jokes, really? Look, Perl 6 can either be a "crazy complex" language that is "over-designed" and "hard to read", or it can some sort of toy with laughable complexity (your supposition is that
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by snapdangle 8y ago
How many governments have they overthrown for bananas and oil, though?
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by snapdangle 8y ago
So the sight of pluggable VM backends, which includes JVM, somehow struck you as a deadly limitation? Funny, most other languages dream of having their core implementation runnable on multiple VMs. Otherwise why does every successful langua
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by snapdangle 8y ago
And yet Perl 6 has been droppping their performance floor by enormous factors, with a lot of room for improvement still. Everyone always shrugged at me when I explained that Perl 6 was designed to be able to be fast, with the ability to o
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Anyone claiming that Perl 6 is "slapping a new version number on a library" has little credibility with regards to programming language design and history. "Let the past die" might be a great line for Ben Skywalker in a
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by snapdangle 8y ago
You cannot judge another society's approach to history based on how we treat it. The presumption of rapidly shifting history in orally transmitted culture is being debunked by this and other works. The shame is that if people would jus
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by snapdangle 8y ago
The ones we didn't burn and the ones we have bothered to actually treat as history rather than random flights of fantasy that humans went to great trouble to document.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
My point is that space travel would have been considered high fantasy aka impossible during previous eras of scientific reasoning. And yet now we know that it is indeed possible, and are close to achieving it ourselves.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
That's entirely the cultural bias of treating other humans as savage and primitive and not listening to a word they say.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
I assume you are aware of and have real refutations for the proposition that the Eye of the Sahara could be a location for Atlantis? And you are absolutely incorrect about Plato's description being considered allegory at the time. Anyo
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Except that in an orally transmitted culture, stories are _also_ told to communicate actual, factual history. So the issue is that we no longer communicate our history through stories told out loud and therefore decided not to be able to co
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by snapdangle 8y ago
So what is your explanation for the spacefaring journeys through the solar system found within ancient Hindu texts? Animals do speak, actually. This is something you might not have come to understand or accept yet, but science is no longer
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by snapdangle 8y ago
When the only means of preserving your history is to speak it truthfully, that's what you do.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
Why? Because automatic lionization of people is the proper way? Wouldn't it be incredible if someone died and we could finally speak about them honestly?
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by snapdangle 8y ago
So illegal practices are okay as long as they result in lower prices for the consumer? Actually, this reasoning checks out with current interpretations of monopoly law. Carry on.
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by snapdangle 8y ago
The 3K-5K is extrapolated based on the time spans of the claimed length of these civilizations but I should clarify that most of the writing about how the ancient world viewed itself comes from after 2K and especially after 1K. The "bi
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by snapdangle 8y ago
There is an ancient stone list of Sumerian rulers that extends into 'antediluvian' rulers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List#Antediluvia... Egypt recorded similar. Dan Carlin references A.T. Ol
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by snapdangle 8y ago
"It seems pretty obvious that what we know about is the barest sliver of what was actually going on tens of thousands of years ago." It doesn't seem to be obvious to most highly educated people I know. From their perspective,