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by throwaway7645 9y ago
So only a little off topic, but does anyone here use the Wolfram language and Mathematica for research and common coding tasks? I've been pleasantly surprised so far with the depth of the language (the import statement is a single unif
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Sounds neat, I'll check this out.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
True, but it's a hack...not something fluid/elegant/seamless or efficient. I'm not a software engineer. I'm just a traditional engineer that wants an OS written for a power user that allows me to do my job more effi
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I've stated on here numerous times that Powershell falls short because pipes aren't text based as in Unix, but are really more like method chaining in .NET. Most of the time I have the output of one command, but can't easily
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I hear it has an excellent and very fair licensing model too, besides the fact that it has templates for everything. Want to write an FPS? They have a template for it.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Early Smalltalk and Lisp systems were those langs all the way down. Using emacs with Common Lisp or using Pharo Smalltalk can give you a feel for this, but not exactly the same thing as a Symbolics lisp machine or the Xerox Alto. Alan Kay h
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Only partly...it has lots of suffixes and prefixes for pretty much everything too. They says it's nearly impossible for a foreigner to learn (of course not true).
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed. I think critical thinking in philosophy is useful, but you have to keep in mind the critical thinking skills learned in a typical engineering degree: advanced math classes more advanced math classes applying mathematics to engine
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
The language is probably in the top 3 for hardest to learn. Not sure of the 3D stuff.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I don't look know that I know where everything is, but I'm guessing it takes awhile to learn where 72 weird APL symbols go when you're first learning you know?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
They also routinely steal blueprints to US technology as well as the rest of the world. They make billions in IP theft annually. I'm not saying they can't innovate (being one of the first advanced civilizations), but they're
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
National security?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Sounds like a lot of fluff added because some people want a slower ramp. I think there just needs to be more example material out there for beginners.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
People realize that of course, but I don't think simply buying keycaps is an option for everyone. Will they work with my slightly non standard ergonomic keyboard?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed on the keyboard thing. Dyalog sells an APL keyboard, but it isn't ergonomic, which I need. I think "/" is a good symbol for map as it is easy access.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
True that J & K do, but Dyalog doesn't and is pretty modern in that it is still very actively developed...interfaces to Python/R, runs on Raspberry Pi, hooks into .NET, can run on GPU...etc.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
APL has used a huge set of non ASCII characters for more than 30 years in production by large companies.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
There was a big HackerNews thread on Pixie awhile back with the author Tim Baldrige and why he eventually stopped the project. A neat idea.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Was Forth just for debugging the hardware, or did the full thing run in Forth?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I found the opposite to be true.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed that having to drop to .NET is a fail. So usually when trying to learn to do file I/O in a new language you google it. The first few examples I came across were slow and when I looked into it, it was doing as this example did. I
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Thanks for the analysis. This is one of my main PS issues in that all the obvious ways are in fact wrong. I tried 3-4 different file write methods before and all were unbearably slow.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
This is pretty impressive. Powershell has been pretty slow for a lot of my uses lately. The author said this took ~30 secs. How long would a similar script take in Python? They're both slow on the language performance spectrum, but I b
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Out of curiosity...what are the other langs and what is the business you're in? Python is a great language for a lot of uses, but obviously not everything.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yea...not in the visible spectrum, so you have to be imaginative. Famous theoretical physicist kip Thorne (expert on black holes) uses Mathematica to take an image of space and use the equations for black holes to warp the images used for t
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I was just referring to going to Chez as the backend...happy it is moving along.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yea, but make another Snow White and if she LOOKS like the Disney version, you're going to have a bad time.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Glad to hear this hasn't stalled.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Haha, thanks Gregg! Glad to hear that people do. I hope Red catches on and you can use that for everything (my intent if it works out)!
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I love his 60 bazillion sites. I've seen his stuff on lulu as well, but I wished he went into more detail on some of the apps at times. I can mostly follow along, but stuff like rebtris is pretty terse in a way (lot of functionality in

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