benas

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by benas 6y ago
No, you are deviating from the main point: natural expressiveness. So let me back up: If you think "if (= x 1)" is natural to humans, then try to ask someone in the street "is equals this that?" and let me know about the
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by benas 6y ago
Thank you. This is really the impression I have right now after reading all these replies (and those on twitter as well).. Even though I'm trying to argue in a constructive way from the beginning.
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by benas 6y ago
Writing code is different from writing mathematical equations. Developers (humans) prefer meaningful variable names, method names, expressions, etc. Comparing this to maths where conciseness is key is not the best analogy IMO. And it is not
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by benas 6y ago
Yes of course, that's incorrect and provocative in purpose. The point is not about the syntax, but about expressiveness: A programming language should make it easy for a human to express (write) his intentions in code and for other h
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by benas 6y ago
Did I mention English? That still applies to any language. If the developer's natural language is Russian, the mental effort to translate what the developer wants to express in Russian in his programming language should be minimal.
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by benas 6y ago
I have nothing against Clojure, but I agree with Donald Knuth who said: "Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute." [1]. I could be wrong, but I don't find Clojure to be "sim
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by benas 9y ago
Nice job! We all like free services without registration :-) This is similar to https://github.com/benas/gossed (uni-directional) and http://websocketd.com/ (bi-directional) tools. Both written in gola
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UnixStream: Turn Java 8 Streams into Unix Like Pipelines(github.com)
3 points by benas 10y ago|0 comments
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Easy Batch: the simple, stupid batch processing framework for Java(easybatch.org)
2 points by benas 10y ago|0 comments
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by benas 10y ago
I'm addicted already!! Thank you for making this
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by benas 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. Choose a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life!