Scriptor

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by Scriptor 16y ago
Could be done well. He should write a formal contract asking for 20 goats and 5 cows, then have him sign it. :)
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by Scriptor 16y ago
I'm readying up a Lisp to PHP compiler for release of the next version. Ideally it'll be done soon today while I add finishing touches to the website and do some final testing.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Because the vast majority of people will not be accepting donations because they aren't content creators. If a content creator puts $10 in per month, he could quickly get much more back if a hundred non-content creators each give $1.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The stacked C code requires much less jumping around with your eyes and it's easier to quickly get an overall idea of what the code is doing. The other version just looks too scattered, which is fine if you're working on a particular line,
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The D language actually is an example of a good site, in that there's a large chunk of code on the front page.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
I don't think strlen is being accurate by saying its "Ruby fanboys" who are the source of a lot of criticism. Clojure does have a lot of former Java developers who aren't used to non-IDE development on the JVM. Others don't like the apparen
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The main difference here is between action and puzzle games. I personally disliked the pure puzzles because they felt too restrictive. Large-scale strategy games like simcity were a better fit for me. The same pattern shows up in my coding.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Let's stop throwing around the word ADHD. It encourages people who just don't have the discipline to focus to give themselves an excuse, while lessening the perception of the problems for people who are actually debilitated by it. There's n
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The repo is available at http://github.com/tarcieri/reia Is it just too unusable right now?
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Only a small number of the language websites listed on the emerging langs camp site have any code on them, and that includes those with maybe just a couple of lines for an edge case scenario. I guess a bunch of those languages are highly
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by Scriptor 16y ago
They are: http://emerginglangs.com/speakers/ First one in the list :)
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by Scriptor 16y ago
I'm curious, what interesting features does it have?
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Something like this could be very feasible, especially when combined with the array interfaces so that the fact it's an object with a moving pointer isn't even noticed.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Incorrect. The SPL is entirely implemented in C.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
FWIW, there's an implementation of a doubly linked list in the SPL. http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.spldoublylinkedlist.php LispHP seems to use ArrayObject, though I'm not really sure how its performance is (googling indicates iteratio
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by Scriptor 16y ago
It could be mitigated in some cases as long as the garbage collector is working fine. For example, in a tail-recursive function that uses a first/rest pattern to go through an array a new copy would normally be allocated with each recurse.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
An alternative syntax for that is to cast $this as an array: array_slice((array)$this, 1); I'm not sure if this will be faster though. Is the source of the slowness getArrayCopy or array_slice itself?
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The fact that it's interpreted makes it a little unrealistic to directly deploy a whole web application with it. However, the sandboxing and embedding features look really cool.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
It's interesting how South Asian English uses many British words as well (such as "dustbin" instead of the American "trashcan"). I was young enough to relearn the American words when I moved to the US. However, it's still the British words
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Any reason why it hasn't? What parts of the language are the biggest obstacles?
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Not just a bad/poor comment/article. You can have a horrifically written article on Erlang and it would still be on Hacker News, therefore not deserving of flagging. What's supposed to happen is that nobody upvotes it and it stays in obscur
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Completely agree. The author mentions that he tried to learn Erlang and Haskell (we don't know how much he tried), uses the technical specs of Haskell and O'Caml, and then makes a side swat at Scala. It looks like at the beginning of this y
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by Scriptor 16y ago
There're several twists. While the syntax and theory has been around for a long time, a language still needs its own libraries, build/package management software, editor integration, etc. But Clojure already came with a lot of functionality
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by Scriptor 16y ago
Are you using it with T-Mobile? If so, how is their service?
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by Scriptor 16y ago
I only said he didn't know " some of the basics". Also, this is neither a personal attack on irrelevant facets of him, nor is it just about TCO. Python has done very well in its history and I personally like it. However, Guido made his fin
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The "Benevolent Dictator" of a major language is still learning some basics of language design 18 years into starting that language. I'd more more okay with it if Guido didn't have such a strong grasp on the language's future.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
It'd be a good idea to decide on what features you want most and whether the disadvantages of a VM offset its advantages. Although Clojure lacks TCO, it's already gotten very popular very quickly, maybe more than other lisps. Hard data for
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by Scriptor 16y ago
I'd really like one, but I only have a Github account. Github: http://github.com/scriptor/ historium at gmail
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by Scriptor 16y ago
A good trick with lyah is to try to write the code for a function before you see the actual example code. It'll get you in the functional mindset much faster.
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by Scriptor 16y ago
The brain is able to make itself think that external tools are mere extensions of the body, so it's no surprise that the mouse has been successful. I wonder if the lack of any tactile response in these interfaces hinders them somewhat or if

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