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by granular 17y ago
Thanks, gaius.
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by granular 17y ago
> Define "best". As someone replying to the discussion topic, you may choose any interpretation of "best" that you wish. In fact, that would be preferred, as it would probably produce more interesting discussion than me attempting to ri
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by granular 17y ago
I was hoping it would lead to comments such as, "$lang1's OO implementation is good, except that it's missing $feature_X and $feature_Y, which means I can't do $technique_Z", or "$lang2's OO impl is more useful to me than $lang3's because i
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by granular 17y ago
Ok. That covers the rest of this weekend anyway. :)
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by granular 17y ago
The OP asked about what you are currently learning. Many folks may actually be required to learn it for their job, rather than for professional enrichment.
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Ask HN: Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support.
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by granular 17y ago
Possibly of interest: Here's a regularly-updated plot by Georg Brandl showing the number of Python 3 packages in the PyPI: http://dev.pocoo.org/~gbrandl/py3pkgs.png
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by granular 17y ago
The Perl folk are being very bold, IMO. With Parrot and Rakudo, they're saying that you can write code in Perl 6 and utilize libs in other languages (including the CPAN in Perl 5), or you write code in other languages and still have acc
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by granular 17y ago
> It's sad. All of the teachers that are forced to teach to the status quo do so because money is on the line. There's more to it than just that, actually. What happens when a teacher demands excellence? Well: grades drop, students (mos
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by granular 17y ago
> The problem isn't the time spent in school, the problem is the school itself. Actually, that's not enough detail. "School" is a complex system consisting of many parts -- all of which have their issues. Parents play a big role, in so
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by granular 17y ago
> learn pronunciation first, and learn the script of the new language immediately What does "script" mean in this context? What is the "script" of a language?
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by granular 17y ago
Parrot 1.0.0 was released in March of this year. Give it time.
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by granular 17y ago
I disagree. Python regexen are a royal pain compared to how they work in Perl. You know what would be pretty funny is if a rogue group of guerilla programmers hacked Perl style regex match and replace syntax into Python. Heheheh, boy would
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by granular 17y ago
There are a number of Parrot languages at various stages of development. As soon as they mature a bit, you might find people taking them pretty seriously. :)
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by granular 17y ago
The reason I asked was because it's difficult to believe someone would be such ass when letting an employee go. Especially in the way that he seemed to psyche himself up and get angrier and louder as he went.
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by granular 17y ago
Can anyone confirm from a different video that the boss's voice matches up?
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by granular 17y ago
It's not a matter of gaming the system. The teacher is the system. Just about anything the kids learn (except for honors classes, where the kids will sometimes learn some things on their own) is due to strenuous effort from the teacher. A
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by granular 17y ago
Not only that (parents complaining to teachers), it gets worse. Some problem parents actually go straight to the principal to complain about the teacher -- based only on what their child told them ("But mom , Mrs. So-and-so picks on me!
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by granular 17y ago
Yes, great teachers should be paid well. But there's another side to this coin. Teaching is a brutal job. Parents complaining about grades and/or teachers. Student behaviour worse than its ever been (with administrators that do very littl
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by granular 17y ago
Edit: Ok. Just had another look at http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html , specifically the part about changing stuff without even keeping track of the changes. So, I rescind my suggestion for the ChangeLog. You also say, "full of hacks and
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by granular 17y ago
I don't know much about the Shootout, but my guess is that, if someone wants Arc there, they need to go and write whatever programs the Shootout requires you to write in order to participate in the Shootout. I'd try it, but I don't know Arc
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by granular 17y ago
> > (I want to see Clojure and Arc on this.) > Well, arc's running on top of MzScheme, so it's likely to be a bit slower. I'd be interested to see how Arc fares on the code-size axis.
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by granular 17y ago
Do you expect that the canonical Perl 6 implementation of the standard library (I guess this is whatever will come with Rakudo?) will suffer from this follow-up problem about the same as Perl 5, or less-so?
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by granular 17y ago
Some files (besides INSTALL and TUTORIAL) you might consider including with the distribution: * README: what it is and why * ChangeLog * LICENSE * HACKING: instructions for users who might like to contribute to Arc * FAQ: answers to questio
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by granular 17y ago
> "Who is regular and why is he releasing matter?" No, "Why" is the Ruby guy. Regular Why (not any newer or improved Why) is releasing matter. And at an alarming rate! :)
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by granular 17y ago
It's news page seems to be down, and the mailing list looks to be mostly overrun with spam. :(
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by granular 17y ago
Pretty big news for Arc-ers. Still a pretty spartan distribution. Still no docs dir or even a README, which seems a bit strange.
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by granular 17y ago
It's interesting to compare the Python situation to that of Perl. With Perl, there's a dozen solutions on CPAN for every problem, and you can pick and choose to find the best one. In Python, there's usually one that's had the blessing from
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by granular 17y ago
So, is TDD really the key? Should you really always (or nearly so) write your tests first before writing any code? It would seem to me that doing so would seriously interfere with workflow.
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by granular 17y ago
Google seems to be predicting its next Seldon Crisis. :)

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