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by wirrbel 6y ago
Its not at all bad (I learned programming using FreePascal, true story). But its unit system is from UCSD pascal (via TurboPascal, etc). I'd say Wirth has a certain 'signature style' and I don't think that ObjectPascal&#
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Yeah, but its not a Wirthian dialect.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I really would like to see a Modula-2/Oberon/Component Pascal frontend for LLVM.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
A friend worked backstage and he has not-so-fond memories of Smudo. Large ego and a tendency to let people feel that he thinks he is a star.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
If you look up the numbers the Wedge Tail Eagle has the same wing span as the bald eagle.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I am always reminded of this meme https://img.ifunny.co/images/70898eeb8bc2323e320aca74b03bb9a... "Basically a glorified seagull"
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by wirrbel 6y ago
> In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the m
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Never quite understood why comment section wasn't one of the premium subscription features for direct monetization. It could cover the moderation costs directly, provides an incentive for some to buy a subscription and sock puppet acco
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by wirrbel 6y ago
It amazes me how people buy into the right-wing narrative about politicians having invited refugees to Europe, when in fact, the EU is trying hard to keep them from entering in the first place. What might have prevented the refugee crisis m
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Banning one book is of course not a guarantee and parties like the AfD do become popular not for a monocausal event... Funnilly enough, I think a main driver for AfDs formation as an neoliberal-turned-alt-right party are the books by Tilo S
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I cannot provide references (and don't really feel obliged to research them now), but I think this is a misrepresentation of bauhaus. Bauhaus as a school for design was inherently technical with Werkstätten (workshops) where craftsmen
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by wirrbel 6y ago
> Fun anecdote, but what is your larger point? I replied to a comment that said that all book-bans would be evaluated to be harmful/net-negative in retrospect. I don't think that this general statement is true and brought up th
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I replied to a comment that said that all book-bans are would be evaluated to be harmful/negative in retrospect. I don't think that this general statement is true and brought up the ban of Mein Kampf as a counterexample. Who knows
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I seem to have put up a honeypot for nitpicking with my reply (fun fact: I mention that copyright law was employed for that in my original reply)..
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Its availailable nowadays (they used copyright law to ban the distribution so that no precedent for censorship is created). But back in the day if you really wanted to read it you would mail-order it from abroad.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
indeed, I even mention this in my comment.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
you know, my great aunt found the book in her attic (it was a gift for her wedding at the time and then it got stowed away quickly when the allies took control). It is an almost unreadable piece of shit. But, I have no doubt that some peopl
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I agree with certain phrases and words. Sometimes I can replace them on the fly with alternatives. At the end, there is only so much you can explain and when I read a bedtime story I seriously don't want to start explaining about colon
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Germany here, we banned Mein Kampf from being sold (used copyright law to do that). I once stood in a book shop (teenager, time to look at books but not enough money to buy them) and some skindheads wanted to buy it, it wasn't availabl
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by wirrbel 6y ago
Let’s use a key value store and call it the configuration registry!
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by wirrbel 6y ago
all relevant work, even if it is more coordination. I think knowing Delphi one can see a fingerprint in style that can be found again in C#.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I doubt that it is much useful to point out a top-3 list in general, without clear metrics on which to rank people. More or less I'd rather talk about influential people who brought programming language design forward. I would also add
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by wirrbel 6y ago
It depends on your scoping of languages. Heilsberg wasn't so much concerned with syntax, but Core API Building isn't any less important.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I think I can understand what you are aiming at it seems like a stretch. I guess one can make a case that modern C++ is Stroustrup´s idea, and one might even say "C with classes" (implemented by Stroustrup in the 80ies) is Stroust
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by wirrbel 6y ago
SQLAlchemy expression language is cool stuff. not an ORM but also no string-templating ...
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by wirrbel 6y ago
If you find this a strong feature in Germany, Austrians take it to the next level
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by wirrbel 6y ago
This is the Java most haven't seen because their experience is with codebases predating the streaming-API, sometimes even generics. The death of Java will be Scala-written dependencies in the Maven-packages ecosystem ending up as a lia
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by wirrbel 6y ago
In my family all the cooking/frying is done with clarified butter. Butter, cheese, definitely no margarine/crisco, plant oil only for salads. So far no cardiovascular problems.
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by wirrbel 6y ago
I can agree with all your points (wrote a fair bit of Scala all though I wouldn't identify as a scala programmer). Scala is a weird case, I would normally be the perfect fanboy for it, I like functional programming, did my fair share o
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by wirrbel 6y ago
dunno, classic thing at the Freibad Kiosk of my childhood

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