supersillyus

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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   What you're saying makes sense to me, but do you have a citation for Plan9 being notably slower than Linux on equivalent hardware? Seems like it'd be trivially true unless there is a fantastic architectural advantage to plan9 somewhere, but
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   Not the main point, but why would google.com search list google.com in the results for "Search engine"? You're at google already, so it isn't really a helpful result.
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   Google is the great satan! Let us rise up, overthrow the beast, and bathe in it's blood! If you think they are evil, no amount of them saying otherwise will convince you; that's what an evil company would say. I have my doubts about their p
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   I think you and I have different definitions of "extremely simple".
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   I don't want the fastest possible language or the most powerful possible language. I want the simplest language that is fast enough and powerful enough. The Benchmarks game is a lot of fun, but if I were making a language (especially one no
6. 126.▲
   by supersillyus 16y ago

   You should make it clearer in the commentary that you're holding the static languages to a higher standard.
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   I like the part where he notes that this isn't a real problem except that it creates centithreads of argument from people who believe it to be a real problem. As I grow older and less idealistic, I'm more sympathetic to the notion that pro
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   I prefer return values over exceptions in languages that make it safe and easy. Haskell does a pretty good job, I think. With Maybe or Either, you have to check it to extract your value, but if you are doing a lot of things that will result
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   by supersillyus 16y ago

   I don't think I understand your first point. The type for main would be func(int, *[]byte) int which reads left to right. The function definition syntax isn't as left to right, but it's hardly complicated or confusing. I think your poin