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How to Make Programming Terrible for Everyone(jneen.ca)
7 points by jneen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jneen 7mo ago
I mean, it has to be asked... was the source of chardet not in the training set...?
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by jneen 10mo ago
I've had my job offshored in the past, in case a personal anecdote is relevant here.
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by jneen 11y ago
Yeah, it's basically a toolkit for building jitted languages. Basically the easiest way to get a tracing jit these days. So it'll be a self-hosting jit similar to pypy or pixie.
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by jneen 11y ago
Yeah, it was a difficult decision to remove types - I'd gotten myself into a corner trying to tack on dependent types, and it just wasn't happening. My bet is that unlike most of the un{i,}typed languages out there (most of which
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by jneen 11y ago
um, it's a flower
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by jneen 11y ago
Exactly! This is what the @method / @impl system is for - it's about equivalent to clojure's defprotocol. Future plans include named protocols consisting of multiple methods, and protocol-based matching.
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by jneen 11y ago
Argh, thanks for the cache link. I'm still on heroku free-tier :\
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by jneen 11y ago
Yep, it's my opinion, and that's why I put it into the design. Lots of language design comes from opinions. I hope it's borne out. FWIW it's the same approach Rust has taken, where macros have to end with a ! to make
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by jneen 11y ago
Yep! It focuses more on dynamic type-checks than on static typing though, so I put it in the category of "untyped functional" - more like clojure and erlang than haskell or ml.
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by jneen 11y ago
It was a decision I made, partly because I realized they were right, and partly because I think tulips are pretty. ) ( ( _) |/
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Tulip – An untyped functional language(jneen.net)
77 points by jneen 11y ago|58 comments
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by jneen 12y ago
See, I actually know it has to do with gender because I used to have a beard. I got treated very differently back then.
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by jneen 12y ago
As someone who has tried to document and report shitty behavior, it's important to keep in mind how risky that is. Here are a few patterns I've observed: pattern (a) MAN: does shitty thing ; WOMAN: hey please stop; WOMAN's p
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by jneen 12y ago
I have heard most of these things, and it sucks. This is hella real.
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by jneen 12y ago
If he is, it's pretty tame compared to the treatment of those who criticize him, and those who claim to support those who criticize him.