writtiewrat

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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   Regarding restrictions vs. perfect freedom, I think it's also about trade-offs, implementation quality, etc. Typescript has very easy and well-defined escape hatches. Conversely, Rust's escape hatches are an active research field,
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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   As someone who doesn't really know neither Perl nor PHP, PHP is more of a domain-specific EDSL than a mainstream programming language. One of the few insights in the blog post that aren't stupid, fake, inconsistent and schizophren
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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   Sorry for this repetition, but how popular was/is monkeypatching in Perl?
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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   How popular was/is monkeypatching in Perl?
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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   Some of the reasons why I never bothered with Perl was that I had the perception that it, like Ruby, encouraged mutating and modifying classes on the fly, willy-nilly. And the lack of static typing. Python also did not have static typing (i
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   by writtiewrat 10mo ago

   Reasoning through analogies?