vram22

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   by vram22 3y ago

   And despite being single pass, you could call functions and procedures before you defined them (later in the code), by using the forward declaration feature of Pascal. Because of this feature, the language could also support mutually recurs
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   by vram22 3y ago

   Yes, brilliant. Sounds (pun not intended but noticed) like steganography. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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   by vram22 3y ago

   Cool. I should try that. I was a heavy TP user too. Man, this reminds me of amber screen monitors. I liked them better than the green screen ones, but somehow, the amber ones seemed to be much less popular, at least in areas where I was.
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   by vram22 3y ago

   Thanks.
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   by vram22 3y ago

   Makes sense. Thanks.
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   by vram22 3y ago

   Got it, thanks.
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   by vram22 3y ago

   I think it's clear now - mode 0 is used to suppress the error messages about yet-unseen labels in the first pass, and 3 to give the output with any errors. Meanwhile, by the end of the first pass, all labels would have been seen, so in
8. 188.▲
   by vram22 3y ago

   Ah, got it, thanks. But why not 0 to 1 with step size 1? Wouldn't that also give two passes, which should be sufficient, and which the said normal way also does?
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   by vram22 3y ago

   >Those BBC TV shows had the unusual feature of broadcasting software over the end credits. Just had to tape the screeching and play it back into the computer. Can you explain this? Do you mean that BASIC programs were encoded as sound in
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    by vram22 3y ago

    >- integrated assembler - you could inline assembly language really easily Yes, as easily as this: some BASIC statements here [ some assembly statements here ] some BASIC statements here IOW, you just had to enclose your assembly languag
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Good to know, thank you.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    There is also setjmp() and longjmp() in C, or there used to be, earlier. Not been using C intensively for a while.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    I hope you used rg to catch the catch :) #eatyourowndogfood
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    by vram22 3y ago

    There was also ack (IIRC) written in Perl, earlier.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    >In terms of happiness, I love it. In terms of happiness, I agree. Productivity is not bad too (understatement of the year :). But as for any powerful tool, to get the most or even a lot from it, you have to spend some time. But IMO at l
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Just add Wikipedia to the end of your search pattern.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Yes, and Rob Pike has a post about it on his blog, command-central.com, IIRC.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    >I’d think this actually applies to nearly everything in software and is def a useful thing to keep an eye on. Sort of like if the Peter Principle and Parkinson's Law had a child. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Not 100% sure but I think YAML became popular due to its use by Ruby / Rails.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Didn't get your comment, sorry. I'm both a C# (language) and (Western) music ignoramus, sad to say :)
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Wow.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Saw comment late, but thanks. Will check those.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    "solipcism" solipsism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
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    by vram22 3y ago

    "He practiced Advaita vedanta." A bit pedantic, and I could be wrong, but based on what I've read, my understanding is that Advaita (non-dualism) is not something you can practice, although there are practices in that school
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    by vram22 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brunton
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Right, it is a myth. There's a lot of misinformation floating around about the subject. Basically, any activity can be a meditation. So can no activity, e.g. zazen.
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    by vram22 3y ago

    Anosmia was one of the symptoms of Covid too, as I read at the time of peak Covid. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7488171/
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    by vram22 3y ago

    That's a tall tail now
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    by vram22 3y ago

    DHL Express worldwide was a huge enterprise user of HP-UX some years ago, and probably still uses it today, because their investment would be too large to write off, as JohnFen said in a sibling comment about another company. They had many
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    by vram22 3y ago

    For a second I thought C referred to the C language.