thedigitalengel

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Why is iTunes not open-source?
6 points by thedigitalengel 16y ago|7 comments
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Evolution Vs. Modern Medicine(rants-musings-nonsense.blogspot.com)
1 points by thedigitalengel 16y ago|0 comments
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Nethack, Rougue or Towers Of Hanoi(feross.org)
2 points by thedigitalengel 16y ago|0 comments
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
> It'd probably be more accurate to say that Java deliberately limits its expressiveness, in order to make it harder for people to shoot themselves in the foot, and to make it easier for one programmer to understand what another has wri
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
I'm not really not complaining about anything - the shortcoming clearly lies within me and not in Django or Python. The purpose of this thread was merely to gauge what kind of paradigm shift people who were used to programming in C or C++ g
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
What I implied was that it was not immediately obvious what the class was. def foo (self, stream): What is stream here? void foo (std::ostream &out) { out << "bar" << endl; } Hope you get the point.
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
As I said earlier. "Secondly I don't mean to criticize Java. By calling it a toy language, I was simply referring to the fact that Java tends to make writing bad code difficult, and in doing this takes away some of the flexibility and power
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
I think the header-file and source-file distinction was more of an architectural decision (so that you could implement an efficient compiling and linking system) than a language design decision. Just an opinion, though.
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
Would it not be better this way: for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) printf ("%d %d %d\n", i / 100, (i % 100) / 10, i % 10); IMHO, such patterns (multiple nesting with empty outer loops), in most cases, are really an indication of just
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
It seems some of the HN eats up some of the asterisks. But you get the idea.
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
I never said I was a hardcore C++ guy. :) I'm more like a hardcore C guy. I do know a fair bit of C++ though. Perhaps C++ would've been better if compatibility with C was not kept as a fundamental goal. Just a personal opinion. Qt does an a
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
Currently I'm a student and question of what kind of a programmer I'm is wide open. I am currently working on a project that has to do with the GC and the JIT compiler for a language runtime. I plan to use my (remaining) student years to
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
The above comment applies here as well.
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
Java is, as I said, a toy language. A language that needs you , the client programmer, to define getFoo () and setFoo () methods manually can't be right.
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
I agree that short python samples are as clear as a high level language can possibly be. Implementing algorithms, for instance, becomes incredibly easy in Python. I face problems when Python programs get above a certain length. I've done so
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
I don't have much experience with scripting languages - I've only written some bash scripts to automate stuff (other than Python, of course). Unless, of course, Brainf*ck counts as a "scripting language". :D
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I don't like Python. Does that make me a bad person?
151 points by thedigitalengel 16y ago|218 comments
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
Nice! How have you met him? Are you his student?
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
Not to discredit you, but I get very suspicious when people merge C and C++ to C/C++. There really not the same language, you know. And I'm yet to physically meet someone who actually gets Haskell. I'm not very experienced, but more often t
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by thedigitalengel 16y ago
"Your solution promotes gender stereotypes"