overanalytcl

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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   > Good luck writing Makefiles for Fortran, OCaml or (whenever they will really, actually work) C++ modules. I've successfully written Makefiles for Fortran and they worked with ifort/ifx and gfort. In my experiments I've a
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   > 1. MSVC is not installed by default on Windows. Neither is Make or GCC on Unix.
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   Arguably, Tcl can do GUIs much easily and can integrate C less awkwardly than Perl. Both have their use cases, at any rate, and more people should use Tcl, Perl and any version of Expect. Nowadays it falls into the category of tools that we
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   The Phoronix forums are always a place of infinite brain rot. Phoronix is valuable, but its forums... No.
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   The last link doesn't work.
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   Either Rasmus Ledorf or Bjarne Stroustrup. Arguably, another Danish programmer contributed to the history of Pascal: Peter Naur (and also Jørn Jensen, but he was more into implementing ALGOL 60 compilers). Honorable mention to DHH, although
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   So... RadPHP?
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   by overanalytcl 2y ago

   Don't forget about the time Borland really thought they could outsmart Microsoft on .NET and gave us the wonderfully horrible Delphi 8. To put it into a metaphor, Delphi 7 was like XP, Delphi 8 was like Vista. People still use D7 whi