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by systems 11y ago
well... packt free ebook for today happens to be a dart book Dart Cookbook https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning 9 hours left from the time of this posting
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by systems 11y ago
how does postgresql upsert compare to ms sql's merge statement i want to look deeper into this, but didnt have the time but from the little i read, seems ms sql merge is more powerful
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by systems 11y ago
"Indentation significant syntax" :( in my opinion, one of the worst ideas to plague many new languages brackets are really, seriously, honestly a better visual cue for grouping
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by systems 11y ago
fear of radical change people are more accepting of incremental changes rather than massive radical changes rooted in fear of the unknown, i guess!!!
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by systems 11y ago
i have to strongly disagree i am egyptian, and the revolution that started in egypt in 25th Jan 2011, was more or less organized on facebook on a facebook page that started few years earlier to condemn the torture and killing of a young ma
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by systems 11y ago
should programming languages evolve its nice to have FOSS implementations of things like smalltalk but shouldnt we look more forward to languages such as rust, perl 6, go, red .... or at least ocaml and haskell is this useful for anything
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by systems 11y ago
with the existence of Perl6, Clojure, F#, Rust, Go, and few others ... For someone who doesn’t know Ruby, why learn it today?
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Red Programming Language: Answers to Community Questions(red-lang.org)
2 points by systems 11y ago|0 comments
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by systems 11y ago
I'd bet Perl6 ecosystem will evolve very fast, I don't think you will need to wait several years
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by systems 11y ago
Perl6
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by systems 11y ago
i tried many times to convince myself that i can live without automatic package dependencies but failed i love the legacy of slackware, the brand but its more of an emotional thing at the end, i use kubuntu, ubuntu based distros have acce
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by systems 11y ago
any news about emacs-guile?
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by systems 11y ago
is guile a general purpose programming language? or is it mainly an extension language? like lua for example
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by systems 11y ago
While in general i agree with JJ my own small list is 1. code lives in files, files lives in the directory structure, this relational ship and organization should be introduced early, and new languages should optimize and simplify its build
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Teaching programming languages: we’re doing it wrong(medium.com)
1 points by systems 11y ago|1 comments
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Should I be interested in Perl6?(quora.com)
7 points by systems 11y ago|0 comments
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by systems 11y ago
i think if Perl6 becomes popular enough, most perl5 devs and shops will just move to perl6 while perl6 is truely a new languages not an upgrade to perl5 perl5 devs for a while have been under pressure to make perl5 more popular, using a pop
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by systems 11y ago
mst as one of the biggest perl5 proponents are you planning to switch to perl6? 1. yes 2. no 3. maybe 4. will use both
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by systems 11y ago
well, there is mageia, which is very much alive and have been in the top 10 on distrowatch for as long as i can remember mageia is also community driven, which some consider an advantage over other distros driven by commercial organizations
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by systems 11y ago
the last code update seem to be in 2014 http://sourceforge.net/p/lush/code/HEAD/tree/ so maybe its not fully abandoned
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by systems 11y ago
there are so many lisps out there, i wonder when one will click this site of course is linked to one arc, which i believe at least the original hn was created in, i am not sure if it still is there is also racket, which is lauded by many,
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by systems 11y ago
this reminds me of this quote "Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is jus
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by systems 12y ago
who is Stefan Monnier? and why should we care about what he thinks? is he the main emacs maintainer? in other words, how seriously should we consider this email?
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by systems 13y ago
well, most open source projects have a small set of core developers, a larger set of testers (users who discover bugs and report them properly) and larger set of passive users being more popular will only slighly enlarge the core, and keep
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by systems 13y ago
i never understood the sentiment, that people are afraid that their tool of choice becomes "mainstream" popular i think people argue a lot about which language is better, because programming languages need to be popular they need
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by systems 13y ago
well, i guess ... having a second thought about it, clojure is very different from ruby, being a lisp i am sure most of the ideas in clojure wont be alien to most rubyist ... but still its a fairly large departure from ruby a language that
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by systems 13y ago
i would argue that clojure is very successful i think (probably more like a statment of obvious) language success depends equally on the libraries available for it clojure have a lot of libraries, and leiningen and echo the "worse is
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by systems 13y ago
tl;dr here are lines from the article to summarize it "The .. point is that Perl 5 gives you a way to build .. (DSL's) that can be seemlessly worked into a general purpose programming environment." "Perl is a language ma
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by systems 13y ago
how does Perl have reader macros, can you please point to a link if possible? i couldnt find this one simply searching online
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by systems 13y ago
it seems that Ruby doesnt have a MOP http://codefol.io/posts/Does-Ruby-Have-a-Metaobject-Protocol

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