magicmouse

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by magicmouse 4y ago
Although the language i have been working on includes time travel as a built-in feature, i find that i almost never use it, because in a deductive language, it is not that easy to create a bug. Time travel is great for understanding someone
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by magicmouse 4y ago
Most of his predictions are nonsense, and show a lack of understanding of the logical foundations of modern computing. His assertion that instruction sets are "obsolete" is absurd. The Turing/Von Neumann computer uses an inst
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Show HN: A handy color picker for programmers and web designers(beadslang.com)
1 points by magicmouse 4y ago|0 comments
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by magicmouse 5y ago
To use the color picker, click on a color swatch, and it will copy the color name in the format selected to the clipboard. the source code for this color picker is on github https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples
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Show HN: A handy color picker for HTMN, C, etc.(beadslang.com)
3 points by magicmouse 5y ago|1 comments
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by magicmouse 5y ago
yes, it is a higher level language, that is ideal for making web apps.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
The Multics operating system, which was funded by the DARPA at MIT's Project Mac for 10 years, was superior to Unix from a technical standpoint, and it used segmentation. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~solomon/cs537-old
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by magicmouse 5y ago
no, there is a typo in the video. The SDK is the best authority for Beads examples, as those are checked on each build for any errors. We have about 20 sample programs, some large enough to show most of the language features.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Excel achieves its robustness (and it hardly ever crashes) by protecting the user against arithmetic errors, and circular reasoning. Excel doesn't offer infinite precision arithmetic, that is rarely needed in practice. Null pointers ar
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Meteor has a lot of users, and is still around. The problem with Meteor is that it uses JS, and that language has a lot of problems. Typescript has clobbered meteor, as people have realized that JS makes it far too easy to
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by magicmouse 5y ago
if i can find a better cross platform delivery mechanism than AIR that isn't too far away from JS, i will switch, as there are a fair number of Linux-based programmers out there. Sorry for the current inconvenience of requiring Wine.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
gee thanks for the kind words. You wrote one of the best comments i read.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
The problem with both Swift and Kotlin, is that you must use libraries to draw and handle events, which typically makes it tied to a single OS (Swift only really being used in OSX at present). Kotlin might rely on the very extensive JVM l
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by magicmouse 5y ago
I don't find Red particularly readable, it is a bit too dense for my taste. But some people will love it, and they have a very active Gitter group, and they are very nice people. Red is the best funded language that i know of. Nenad di
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by magicmouse 5y ago
many people, myself included, view Web Assembly has a future virtual machine that is universally available across hardware, ending the hassle of making specific executables for each operating system. A kind of improved P-Code system, if you
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Neo4J has a souped SQL language they call Cypher to perform queries. But since Beads data structures are typically arranged in tree form, one typically uses the loop construct to interate across them, as one is often drawing them. To that
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by magicmouse 5y ago
I was kicked out of the future of coding chat group by Ivan Reese, who exercised his cancel culture powers to permanently ban someone for daring to say that Steve Jobs had cojones for ordering hundreds of millions of dollars in parts for hi
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by magicmouse 5y ago
I just updated the program to allow arbitrary arrays of words and factors for division, so now it is a fizz-buzz-jazz version of the program, and it gets even shorter once you go to table driven data. var ss = "" var col
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Ah, i see i forgot to update the comment when i changed to one day so i could test it easier... thanks for pointing that out, will correct.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Okay, i didn't know you had to put in spaces in HN comments to get it to format, here is the regular expression in classic Unix style versus Beads style for the IPv4 address (1.2.3.4): JS style: (\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Compared to HTML/CSS/JS, Beads is much simpler. You can learn Beads in probably under 10 hours, while CSS takes at least 100 hours to master. Most of the older popular languages like C, C++, Java, have huge external libraries you
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by magicmouse 5y ago
I don't see similarities with COBOL other than Beads has a low percentage of punctuation, but that is from imitating Python's indent-significant code structure style. COBOL generated a lot of billable hours. I did early years in m
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Beads does not replace Excel, but it can close the gap between Excel and the popular programming languages, which have a great deal of unnecessary complexity in them. For example, in HTML/CSS/JS, the comment syntax varies between
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by magicmouse 5y ago
In practice any JS programmer will find that the use of the undefined value is very familiar. In Beads it is abbreviated to U as it is used constantly, because the default value of something in the graph data structures is U. For symmetry r
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by magicmouse 5y ago
PDF prints well, and has nice search features, and has a nice zoom feature to accommodate people of different visual acuities, which the web does not always do well. This is the first time i have ever seen anyone prefer the web. Maybe if i
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by magicmouse 5y ago
There is Elm, and Yazz Pilot (now called visual javascript), and the Red project can generate web stuff as well (but is at the moment fairly focused on Crypto contracts).
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Beads can generate desktop and mobile, however 99% of the users so far are just wanting to make web apps so i spend 99% of the time working on improving the web side and client/server output mode.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
The syntax diagrams are from a handy free web service at this link: https://www.bottlecaps.de/rr/ui#nonterminal
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by magicmouse 5y ago
Have you read any of the reference manual? Why do you suggest the product is incoherent? it has been highly polished, and have written tens of thousands of lines of code in the language, and it works very well. A nice balance of concise vs.
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by magicmouse 5y ago
I take exception to that inflammatory comment. You have never met me, so how could you possibly know what I do and do not respect? The integration of the database is so i can deliver time travel debugging properly, which i believe will be

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