ilyak

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by ilyak 17y ago
"most things become popular for very good reasons" Sure. But those reasons are gone. Long gone. So please, wrap it out already. "that is what a web server does" Did. Most PHP apps don't use /some-article.php and /another-article.php with re
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by ilyak 17y ago
We are tired of you being loudly tired of Desktop Linux, FAVO you.
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by ilyak 17y ago
It would never work without frameworks: The PHP's default templating (stick code into templates) sucks (unusable for anything serious). PHP's default routing (/foo/bar.php, lookup the file) sucks (you really really want one entry point for
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by ilyak 17y ago
But it still has 1000+ functions in the default namespace? And every file still starts with <? And if one of them doesn't, then your web app would fail epically because you were gzipping your output into your output stream (one and only
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by ilyak 17y ago
I'd go ugly early by saying that so did Hitler.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Well. Ruby?
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by ilyak 17y ago
However I'd say he's directly responsible for the misery the most PHP development now is. If he actually spent time reading about languages and designing his own, he would throw in function namespacing and function naming conventions and a
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by ilyak 17y ago
Why not? I mean, rhino has methodNotFound-like thing, so you certainly can.
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by ilyak 17y ago
"Also you forgot to write that" Okay. You want to argue with yourself not with me, to the point when you start rewriting my claims. So, you go and argue with yourself.
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by ilyak 17y ago
You can easily pass an object into Javascript: context.put(“rubyObject”, MyRubyClass.new) Whether you would be able to call methods on it depends on whether the Snarl author did some (trivial) code magic or not, but it's certainly doable to
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by ilyak 17y ago
There's JSLint, you can surely build it in. And it would have syntax colouring which basic lagged in.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Sorry, but for programming language, popularity is everything. It's a social phenomenon, it grows superlinearly with number of users. And languages become popular and unpopular for a reason. For common lisp, those reasons are: It's ancient.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Nope it isn't. I've heard about CL, know a few things about it, and it's a failure nontheless. Its problem isn't the unpopularity between Blub programmers; its problem is its unpopularity even between geeks. Even language geeks!
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by ilyak 17y ago
Teach children to draw on a canvas in javascript. You can easily make a page with a javascript editor and immediate evaluation if you wish, and simplified api.
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by ilyak 17y ago
I'd say that, in the world of politics, yes.
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by ilyak 17y ago
China is the only major state left who is claiming to be communist; therefore, China now defines "communist".
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by ilyak 17y ago
Clojure is two years old and already has more useful software being written in than CL. CL is a failure, admit it.
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by ilyak 17y ago
"...the lack of trained and skilled workers as opposed to the surging numbers of graduates has led to the emergence of an abnormal trend where graduates are paid the same or even less than migrant laborers." Everybody wants to talk and earn
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by ilyak 17y ago
It's different in that, being common lisp, it's actually useless. Might be fun to tinker, tho, with its CLOS and stuff.
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by ilyak 17y ago
JBoss's "tattletale" program does just that for a few years already. Maybe it doesn't draw pretty drawings, but otherwise it's oldnews.
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by ilyak 17y ago
...and newer Windows default on the local (i.e. cyrillic) layout. Some clueless linux distros even install cyrillic layout as the only one; which is completely unusable of course.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Small languages may be interesting but we just don't have enough humans to speak them all, as humans don't want to study small languages unless they happen to be hobbysts or acquire that language as children.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Why would anyone want to live in a small town in the middle of nowhere? Even worse, in rural area. Makes no sense to me.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Why not? Serving pages fully off cache. How many hits per second is slashdot effect? We could count. I think slashdot effect mostly happens because database (mysql, generally) locks down, and we're removing that bottleneck by going into fil
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by ilyak 17y ago
"Five years is a factor of ten in Moore's Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today." Remember PCs five years ago? Exactly, not much changed except for multicore, and it's still underused. I'd
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by ilyak 17y ago
This statements makes no sense to me either. I'm not going to learn chinese; you neither, for most values of you. So we'd still have our web for a small group of maybe one billion english-speaking (FSVO) users. Maybe there would be more con
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by ilyak 17y ago
In Java, you usually do not invent the wheel but rather take an existing open-source jar. Even those of them that aren't very good, sadly. But most are.
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by ilyak 17y ago
...while reducing perfomance...
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by ilyak 17y ago
XSLT makes for a nice templating engine.
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by ilyak 17y ago
"Provides integration with Hibernate" == "Would be a huge pain in the ass". Otherwise, I'd still either pick JRuby on Rails or go ugly early with idiomatic java.

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