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There was a programming language with Esperanto syntax. I have to leave for work but I'll respond later with the name if no one else posts it.
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An advantage of reserved keywords is that users cannot write code like this PL/I snippet. IF IF = THEN; THEN ELSE = IF; ELSE ELSE = THEN;
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Swift takes a different approach than Objective C[0]. [0] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...
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Are you referring to The NeXT Introduction - October 12, 1988[0]? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92NNyd3m79I
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previously discussed at [0]. Suggestions for the author: Define the grammar in BNF and the semantics in prose. Consider using a lexical scanner generator, a parser generator, and a string library. Don't call strlen in a loop[1], many o
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Sorry about that, I thought it was committed. A comparable patch was committed to LLVM version 5, though. [0] is the macro-op fusion pass for x86. [0] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib&#
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I would recommend starting with a test case and a missed optimization bug report. GCC has some support for macro-ops fusion. [0] is the first message in a gcc-patches thread where the feature was added. [0] https://gcc.gnu.org&#x
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Raymond Chen answered this question five years ago[0]. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
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Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
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Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain [video](youtube.com)
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Who Has the World's No. 1 Economy? Not the U.S(bloomberg.com)
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Here are a couple stories that relate to your last paragraph. Dead in Irons by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro[0] Survival by John Wyndham[1] [0] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56991 [1] http://www.unz.org&#x2F
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Regional inequality in the US has gotten markedly worse in the last 40 years[0]. [0] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...
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Phillipe Charles Phd thesis[0] describes a method for generating good error messages with an LALR parser generator. lpg[1] implements these techniques. [0] http://jikes.sourceforge.net/documents/thesis.pdf [1] https:&
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The presentation Building a Better Web Browser[0] by James Mickens is worth watching. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI
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My employer’s answers to these questions are why I am actively looking for work. 1. Do you use unit tests? 2. Do you use static analysis tools? 3. Do you use dependency injection? 4. Do you use parameterized SQL or an ORM? 5. What third par
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One question that I like is “Who do you admire on your team?”
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The other entries can be seen at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/12/04/...
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Michael Crichton called this the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203871
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Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars(theguardian.com)
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Miller v. Dept of Corrections[0] is an example of how bad a toxic work environment can be. [0] http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/miller-v-dept-corrections...
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The actual title is over the 80 character limit. Promises: Efficient Linguistic Support for Asynchronous Procedure Calls in Distributed Systems by Barbara Liskov and Liuba Shrira
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Promises: Linguistic Support for Async Calls in Distributed Systems (1988) [pdf](heather.miller.am)
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Constraints as a Design Pattern (2015) [pdf](mah-d.com)
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A. J. Jacobs' interview with the author[0] is an interesting read. [0] http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/
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Nevada used to give homeless mental patients bus tickets to California [0][1]. [0] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/nevada-settles-b... [1] http://www.sacbee.com/news/investiga
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The following is an excerpt from [0]. Around the same time, the Court ruled, in O’Connor v. Donaldson, that a Florida man named Kenneth Donaldson had been kept against his will in a state psychiatric hospital for nearly fifteen years. The r
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I submitted this post to HN a few months ago. The discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542
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The paper is available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08842.pdf
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The mentioned tech talk is available at [0]. [0] https://vimeo.com/13860477

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