ricky_clarkson

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by ricky_clarkson 14y ago
Thanks for the link. While that looks interesting I was talking about English writing by Argentines, whereas that subreddit is almost entirely in Spanish.
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by ricky_clarkson 14y ago
I'm a native English speaker living in Argentina, and yours is the first English writing I've seen by an Argentine that is enjoyable (I read some of your other posts) and doesn't contain errors, and that includes people who were schooled bi
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by ricky_clarkson 15y ago
Having typed since I was 5, I think while typing, and going back and forth in code is the same as thinking for me. I'd expect that most of these amazing hackers are from the era where they wouldn't see a keyboard until being 16 or 18. I'm
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Java makes excellent code unreadable.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
They're an implementation of the untyped lambda calculus. What you're thinking of are better named tags, not types.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
I wonder whether Functional Reactive Programming might work better.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
OO exists on top of the imperative paradigm, never the functional one. If you disagree, please define OO.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Lisp/Scheme are untyped.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Yes.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Java has a lot of crap, actually. Take a look at Java Puzzlers sometime.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Procedural does not mean "has a main()". It means that the code within a procedure (or method, or function) is always a sequence of steps, i.e., a procedure. OO is a procedural paradigm. doThis(that) is replaced by that.doThis().
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
You mean that no Haskell programs can do I/O? Given that I've written Haskell programs that do I/O, I'd guess you're wrong.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Yes, actually, that's what I meant.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Go for the one with lambdas.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
What will you do with the concealed weapon? Shoot his bullet in mid-air?
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Stallman's point is not that working on proprietary software is evil, but that imposing it on others is. If giving your friend a copy of some software is a crime, then the law is an ass.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
I'd suggest using your mouse less - you can increase your speed more with the keyboard than you can with the mouse. There are a number of looks that emacs can have, from emacs -nw (runs in your terminal emulator) to emacs with GTK. And the
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
"On the other hand, it is also capable of superhuman focus on the right task" No, it's not. It's a human brain. It's not capable of anything superhuman.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
I consider it poor taste when a hacker uses a loop (other than a tail call). Nesting is irrelevant.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
Exceptions suck. Prefer monads.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
There are other return codes besides ints. E.g., replace a function that returns an int or throws an IOException with one that returns an Either<int, IOException>.
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by ricky_clarkson 18y ago
I happen to know that Tony used to work for IBM on their Java implementation. I find it difficult to imagine that he hasn't been involved in some kind of integration testing.
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
So you're saying that America is a bigger market than the world?
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
I think Scala is a must-learn language IF you plan to use it. If you're on the JVM, and for some reason CAL doesn't work for you then Scala might well be the best thing available. However, for learning interesting and useful stuff, I'd pro
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
En espanol, sí. Pero en inglés, "American" es para los de EEUU. Get used to it.
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
I think it would be nicer if each blogger did that themselves. They'd probably find their own typos better that way too :)
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
I once touched 2,700 lines in a day in a grand feat of manual code manipulation. That certainly made me want to code differently.
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
I expect that ] to close all open parens would lead to code that is even tighter jammed to the left margin. I like that I feel comfortable writing nested code in Lisp, and if I was always looking for somewhere to put a ] I'd be tempted not
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
If you look at the relevant logs, and see what Peter Seibel said to you, your question was answered immediately. I'm not sure that you noticed though.
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by ricky_clarkson 19y ago
You made assertions that possible things were impossible, and asked how to do intrinsically non-functional things in a functional way. I think you experienced a typical IRC reaction of "annoy the newbie because it's easier than answering hi

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