swannodette

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by swannodette 17y ago
Every serious (sane) large coding project has: 1. Standard coding practices & constraints 2. Code review So what were the reasons again that a team shouldn't use the most powerful language at hand ;)
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by swannodette 17y ago
I'd say Clojure. Clojure is very small (Scala seems quite complex). The concurrency support is fantastic. I've never really had the patience to understand programming for multiple processors in other languages because of the complexity of l
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by swannodette 17y ago
No criticism of CLOS generic functions, but they accomplish something very different from Clojure multimethods. generic functions are intended to support objects. Clojure doesn't have objects, so Clojure does not limit multimethods to the k
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by swannodette 17y ago
Only _one_, you still get macros, robust data structures (for example hash-maps that take anything as a key), multimethods (dispatch on anything, not just type), lazy data structures, dynamic variables, metadata, etc. macros alone would be
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by swannodette 18y ago
Being an owner of a Kinesis as well, I can attest it's one of the best $300 I've spent on anything related to my programming profession.
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by swannodette 18y ago
Kudos to the writer for actually taking the time to do this. Yes it's only 20% of C (in this particular metric), but to be 20% shy of the performance of C and several orders of magnitude ahead of expressiveness... is there really anything t
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Rebuttal to: I want to believe(method-combination.net)
5 points by swannodette 18y ago|1 comments
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by swannodette 18y ago
It's always good to do your research before making a statement on a topic you might not have a complete picture of: Colt: http://acs.lbl.gov/~hoschek/colt/ Parallel Colt: http://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/paralle... T
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by swannodette 18y ago
It's mostly true. But it also means programming languages attract certain kinds of programmers, a language that fits their individual differences. The reason I moved to Lisp is simple. I was tired of syntax. I was tired of the language stra
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MooTools 1.2.2- Gets Fancier OO Features(mootools.net)
1 points by swannodette 18y ago|0 comments
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by swannodette 18y ago
A more accurate analysis is that they dislike low margin markets.
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by swannodette 18y ago
Believe it. [update] Alright no one likes TinyURL. I get it. Here's a more informative tutorial about running Clojure on GAE. http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appe...
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by swannodette 18y ago
You're right, I stand corrected. Interesting that this aspect hasn't been hyped up more when people mention Rails.
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by swannodette 18y ago
In Ruby can you connect to the running web application and debug it on the fly via a REPL? You can do this with Common Lisp and Clojure (PLT Scheme?). It definitely helps with "getting stuff done."
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by swannodette 18y ago
Those giant 800k floppy disk games, those really amazing 160x120 QT movies at 8fps, remember how colossal Myst was, a whole CD-ROM!
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by swannodette 18y ago
ever heard of Lisp Flavored Erlang? Ever heard of the Common Lisp Object System (inspired originally by Smalltalk)? Ever heard of Clojure (Haskell inspired STM, and lazy data structures)? ever heard of GOAL (Lisp assembly)? etc., etc. etc.,
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by swannodette 18y ago
I think Richard addresses the importance of the roles of the individual people. His novel point is as the title suggests, that the role of _the thing designed_ is far too often overlooked. Consider the terms Lisp-y or Pythonic. It is a stra
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Designed as Designer(dreamsongs.org)
9 points by swannodette 18y ago|2 comments
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by swannodette 18y ago
I suppose my point was that the principles of Lisp have lasted 50 years. Python (which is great) is the child of many, many Lisp-y ideas, but I don't think people will be using a variant of Python 32 years from now. But I would definitely b
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by swannodette 18y ago
Clojure is a Lisp. Lisp is 50 years old.
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by swannodette 18y ago
You can treat WordPress as a PHP based content management framework, and that is in fact what many people do. Also he is in fact using a Clojure web framework- Compojure. In anycase, contrary to what you are saying, his point is coherent.
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by swannodette 18y ago
I've been using macros in Clojure to write my own object system. It seems to me that for serious meta-programming in Haskell, you have to use Template Haskell, and from what I've heard, it's not nearly as flexible.
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by swannodette 18y ago
It's also a very informative flame war. A amazing breadth of interesting topics are brought up and by message 250, most of individuals agree that Clojure is a very serious and quite brilliant Lisp.