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841.
by vorg 11y ago
These graphs have to be embedded into a computation device to be real and changing in time. To build such a computation device, maybe you need time and space. It could even be that our Universe is of the minimum complexity required to build
842.
by vorg 11y ago
Is anyone starting new projects in Grails, or upgrading from version 2 to 3 ? Perhaps that's why other projects are overlooking Grails nowadays.
843.
by vorg 11y ago
It seems annoying because personal names like Jenny and John have grammatical gender in English, so the unknown grammar use of they/them/their seems unnatural. It's also perhaps why similar-sounding names are generally spelt
844.
by vorg 11y ago
I've heard "These, them, or those?" used to indicate a 3-step progression.
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by vorg 11y ago
When I studied on a Chinese language course last year, they encourage you to "speak Chinese only" and most of my classmates spoke better Chinese than me, so I ended up not speaking much to them so as not to burden them.
846.
by vorg 11y ago
I never say "I have got an apple", but also hardly ever say "I have an apple". I virtually always say "I've got an apple", or even "I got an apple" if talking really quickly and informally. I&#x2
847.
by vorg 11y ago
"Hiccough" is spelt "hiccup" by nearly everyone nowadays. In comic books, "though" is often spelt "tho", and "through" spelt "thru". The US and UK should get together and create a
848.
by vorg 11y ago
I particularly like the keywordlessness of W's syntax. Virtually every other language divides identifiers into 2 arbitrarily defined classes: the somewhere from 20 to 100 special identifiers that mustn't be used, and all the other
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by vorg 11y ago
> The US was even funding the mujaheddin fighting them, [...] (those trainees including a young Saudi inspired to jihad by the name of Osama bin Laden) Looks like Ronald Reagan was just as responsible for ISIS as George W. Bush.
850.
by vorg 11y ago
A dynamic language with optional static typing is still a dynamic language that offers its own syntax for dispatching to statically typed code. Python originally offered easy dispatch to C++ code, and Groovy to Java code. The typing guarant
851.
by vorg 11y ago
> Dynamic languages such as PHP, JS, Python and Ruby Don't forget the other dynamic language frequently mentioned in the article... PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf graduated in 1993 from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Sci
852.
by vorg 11y ago
> what is the analogue of syntax highlighting for natural languages Nouns begin with a capital letter in German, and used to be in Dutch and English until a few hundred years ago. Perhaps it was because nouns are generally spoken with th
853.
by vorg 11y ago
The same problem exists with Python, C#, node.js, and Groovy.
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by vorg 11y ago
JVM- and Android-targeted Kotlin were built in simultaneously, whereas Android-targeted Groovy was added on last year as an afterthought, so the QA aspects of each will likely be very different. Also, the full-time developer working on Groo
855.
by vorg 11y ago
This study doesn't account for the "good cop bad cop" tactic many projects run. Politeness is maintained on the mailing list, but undesirable posters are tracked down and bullied behind the scenes where proof who's doing
856.
by vorg 11y ago
> > JavaFX and Dart, both languages > I don't get what you are speaking about JavaFX From context you know I meant JavaFX Script, discontinued by Oracle in 2010.
857.
by vorg 11y ago
Are there any more recent works that develop on this idea with new research and historical analysis, or is this 40-year old book still the best there is?
858.
by vorg 11y ago
> Go is still young, with a long productive life ahead of it [...] compared to the number of people who will use Go during its lifetime, we are but a tiny fraction An assumption lurking in the last paragraph. Remember JavaFX and Dart, bo
859.
by vorg 11y ago
> a "real" scripting language like Groovy Groovy is not a real scripting language, it's a fake. That's why I'm building the Real Groovy Language.
860.
by vorg 11y ago
They do say: "We are sharing the things we think are most interesting." Maybe a minor use of Groovy and Grails is only interesting to people trying to promote those products.
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by vorg 11y ago
> Or create wrappers to make your types chainable It can't always be done. A generic wrapper only works for functions that return values. It would be nice to have a wrapper that can take any function, e.g. foo in: package main
862.
by vorg 11y ago
They filtered the data for each by criteria such as top 25 or > 2000. Hence, Python and Ruby but no Perl, or Clojure and Scala but no Groovy.
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by vorg 11y ago
> Ceylon. As a language, it's a great superset of Java You're using the word "superset" quite loosely. A superset of Java would compile Java syntax into bytecode with all the same semantics as the equivalent Java code
864.
by vorg 11y ago
The former developers on Groovy are spending most of their time on their day jobs these days and they don't seem that interested in Groovy any more, except when they're promoting the existing version at conferences (and they tend
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by vorg 11y ago
> Polyglot. You can use Vert.x with multiple languages. Vert.x doesn't preach about what language is best Gradle should learn this lesson and also offer multiple languages for its build scripts, and more people might adopt it.
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by vorg 11y ago
An "essentially negligible impact" but not zero impact. Sounds a lot like quantum decoherence! Maybe GR and QM are alike after all, one working top down and the other bottom up.
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by vorg 11y ago
Or Imperial measurements in the U.S., or driving on the left in the Commonwealth countries, or non-Unicode encoding in Japan, or right-to-left writing in the Middle East. Whenever an agreement on anything is reached in most of the world, th
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by vorg 11y ago
Scala and Kotlin are mentioned so many times in these comments about Ceylon (42 times and 66, respectively, as I write), but no mentions of dynamic languages Groovy, Jython, or JRuby. I guess that shows there still a clear distinction betwe
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by vorg 11y ago
Elvis is actually the name in Groovy for the ?: syntax (C# uses ??), not for the ?. syntax. The name "elvis" was promoted by the then-project manager of Groovy in an attempt to change the origin meaning of "G-Strings", t
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by vorg 11y ago
> in March, when it had 643,000 downloads for the month. By August, the number had climbed to 1.34 million. Laforge attributes the jump to Apache's "stamp of approval" and the strong marketing Apache brings That jump happe

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