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by wirrbel 13y ago
Picasso actually knew how to paint "properly" before inventing cubism. We have a weird misconception of "Genius" in our culture, where we think that "Genius" are somehow born with natural talent and skill, whil
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one aspect to see with hungarian notation is also the general quality of compilers and development tools such as IDEs or editors. Its just way easier nowadays to jump to the declaration of a variable.
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by wirrbel 13y ago
For a quick introduction this might be worth a look (not really language agnostic though) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...
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by wirrbel 13y ago
I use spyder with Scipy and it generally works quite well. Normally I am a vim user and do not like IDEs, but Spyder make switching between data, sources and repl really neat. On the other hand, only with spyder I get that many annoying tra
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by wirrbel 13y ago
What is the actual benefit of slash, compared to python or ruby with a templating engine? Something like http://slim-lang.com/ which is ruby templateing for example. The PHP approach seems kind of messy in jumbling together
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A pitty that the list is getting more and more English-centered towards the end. Contemporary literature has so much variety to offer, it is a pitty to ignore it.
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The article raises some interesting points for sure. Although it does not delivier to its promise: The effect of Computer Programming on the Brain. Which would have interest me a lot Nevertheless it does raise some interesting thoughts on m
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by wirrbel 13y ago
I like ClojureScript and use it a lot lately. Sometimes however it feels a little distant from JavaScript at times. This can be frustrating at times. Wisp is somewhere between ClojureScript and JavaScript. Of course this means that some of
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by wirrbel 13y ago
I think looking at musical typesetting is even closer to the problem of typesetting source code. lilypond.org does explain some ideas about musical typesetting. For example when and when not to align notes, etc. The OP does seem to favour a
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Assignments != Equation Assignments are pretty unmathematical since they represent memory operations and (usually) allow for mutation. Wirth chose := in Pascal for a reason (with the comparison operator begin = instead of == there which is