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I think the change introduced this syntax with history as materialized { .. } so you have to declare the CTE as materialized to get this optimization
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why isnt materialized CTE a default optimization in sql? why do we need to be explicit about it any trade off
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I found Julia scoping rules to be weird, and a bit off putting While this clearly doesn't seem to impact its adoption, or its community from creating great things For the new comer to the language, the scoping rules just gives a bad fe
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most typed functional languages seem to fit: ocaml, f#, purescript, haskell
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its huge by database standard, i worked in large multinationals and dealt with some of the their largest databases 5.7 is enormous by database standard , there is no way you can get good query performance on a 5.7 tb database without solid
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lol didnt notice that i will fix it
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This is from memory, and i saw few examples but what i recall the syntax was less dsl-ish SQL is a DSL, it is not a general purpose language Chris Dates' D ( not to be confused with Walter Bright D) looks more like a regular program
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i like how in the end the system was replaced by a database solution every language need easy access to a query-ble database many problems are a lot simple when solved declaratively as a query-ble database the relational model, is functio
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probably because of the type of programming i do (business intelligence), live environment doesnt mean much to me most programs run, and finish, and updating most programs while running, is not something important, you can always update it
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I understand the difference between introspection and autocomplete Autocomplete if good tool support is available everywhere, and some languages have very good dynamic introspection (usable in a repl) Powershell, Julia, raku .. i think als
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what is currently the most popular language that is closest to smalltalk i think many of the features that made smalltalk look revolutionary in the eighties are probably common in most modern languages i am personally not supper impressed w
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Well i think, eventually it became F#, which is a different language, but this is what I understood from the parts I read from "The Early History of the F# Language, camera ready, HOPL-IV (PDF)" https://fsharp.org/
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A Raku Manifesto Part 3
(codesections.com)
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A Raku Manifesto – Part 2
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The website if very confusing, after going through the front page, I still dont know if this is an in-browser app, or a desktop app I cant click to enlarge the few screenshots (so I cant take a better look) I cant try the tool without subs
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what are the good alternatives, I spent sometimes on google, and most services seem to required monthly subscription I need to send large file securely sporadically , I cant like pay for like 10 usages etc .. as long as its not time bound
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Programming in Raku (short videos on YouTube)
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SwiftUI vs. UIKit – Comparison of building the same app in each framework
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Off Topic a little, I think Do you guys think there is in theory, the best programming language, or will this always be subjective I started learning Julia recently, and my first impression was , scoping rules are a mess, I like Julia a
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between this book and Programming Language Pragmatics ( Michael Scott ), which is the better book ? (the are both very expensive, I can only afford one, if there is another less expensive and just as good or better option, please recommend)
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Introducing Tcl 8.7 Part 11: The ZIP virtual file system
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Well I used to think that UTF-8 symbols are terrible, until I saw how Julia implement it Most special symbols have escapable names so for example Julia have a composition operator (∘) In the repl or supported editors (atom and vs code), if
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I dont understand the selling point for a Kotlin VM or Native compilation Isnt the whole selling point for Kotlin, is that it is a JVM hosted languages, that give you access to all Java Libraries, framework and tools .. but purportedly .. i
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But do they implement the same programming paradigm, or is there any fundamental differences For example, C# and Java implement the same paradigm , they are different, many argue which provide a better set of feature, but I would not call t
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There is was post about this not so long ago https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/significant-performance-differen...
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Clojure and F#, have some complexity that you wont find in Raku, try installing all 3 and run a simple script Clojure, you will need boot or leiningen , or use the new command line tools which are not supported on windows F#, you will inst
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Yes, but the way i see it, Raku (Perl6) was a complete rewrite of Perl .. was a radical change (rational numbers, grammar, multimethods, ...) Python 3, is in my opinion more of an incremental and conservative change
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They renamed it to Raku, the renamed have two benefits in minds 1. Reintroduce Perl 6 (Raku) as a completely new language, since some thought that being linked to Perl prevented adoption 2. Open the road for Perl 5 to evolve and add feature
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I am honestly disappointed, I think Raku is a much nicer language than Perl 5 or 7 And I really wish, if those working on Perl 5 would have switched to Raku, but sadly i think CPAN for Perl 5/7, have a lot more activity than the equiva
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Since Nubank, is not in the business of selling software does this mean, they might open source datomic ?
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