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by vorg 7y ago
Looks like Auckland NZ is planning on following this trend by building two tram lines over the next 10 years (CBD down Dominion Rd to Airport, another CBD to West), 60 years after following Sydney's lead of tearing out the trams (first
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by vorg 7y ago
No, I am right, because I didn't say Apache Groovy didn't have lambdas, I said it still didn't have the Java 8 lambda syntax in response to the comment that Groovy was so "ruthlessly" Java-syntax compatible. So you
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by vorg 7y ago
> At some point I switch to full Groovy projects, switching on static compilation If you let your Apache Groovy scripts get too large before switching on static compilation, you often have to modify the types and logic in your programs b
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by vorg 7y ago
> inorganic life, simple life, and sentient life ... and prescient life. Don't forget the next stage on from sentience. The line between sentience and prescience also seems blurred, given how many humans nowadays report having flash
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by vorg 7y ago
Although Mandarin isn't "influenced" by Latin, it is also influenced by English. In China most everyday writing would just insert the letters "DNA" into the text. But even for scientific writing, my dictionary trans
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by vorg 7y ago
Apache Groovy's apparent rise from #81 to #15 on Tiobe's index [1] over the past 12 month is disturbing, though. If it doesn't have the downsides of Python, then why would someone fabricate its popularity in a search engine?
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by vorg 7y ago
> the most valuable skill a programmer can have isn't technical, but rather social: empathy You should say "a programmer needs social skill as well as technical skills to be valuable". If a programmer doesn't have a b
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by vorg 7y ago
Having a runaway hit isn't just about creating it, but also successfully maintaining it. Strachan abandoned Apache Groovy only 2 years after creating it so he doesn't really count. Unfortunately he let in someone without any progr
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by vorg 7y ago
Too bad Apache Groovy itself didn't remain popular after popularizing the name "it" for the much older idea of contextually-defined pronouns in programming languages. Using the names of pronouns in English (like "this&qu
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by vorg 7y ago
> 81 is probably as inaccurate the other way as 15 is today I can understand both how and why someone would push Apache Groovy's ranking higher up the Tiobe results, but I wouldn't know how you could push it down, let alone why
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by vorg 7y ago
They're talking about "Go 2" the brand, not Go 2.0 being a new major version having breaking changes to Go 1.x. There are no plans for a breaking-changes Go 2, only occasional additions to Go 1.x under an ongoing "Go 2&q
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by vorg 7y ago
> active COBOL use that continues today [...] 220 Billion LOC That 220b LOC is because most newly-written COBOL programs today are copied and pasted from some other large existing program, then some small parts of it changed. I know
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by vorg 7y ago
> the currently-popular crop of languages: Java, C, Python, C++, C#, VB.NET, JS, PHP, SQL, Objective-C, Ruby, assembly, Swift, Matlab, and Groovy, say Did you get this list of 15 languages from TIOBE's July 2019 top 15 rankings at
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by vorg 7y ago
Scripting languages were to the 200x's what visual 4GL's were to the 1990's, i.e. a whole bunch of them came and went, and only a few gained mass adoption, perhaps 4GL's Visual Basic and Delphi, and scripting languages J
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by vorg 7y ago
The title should be "What's your favorite Linux scripting language?" Presumably you don't want to talk about Powershell (Windows), Javascript (Web), or Apache Groovy (JVM).
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by vorg 7y ago
That natural garbage collection happens during sleep, you need to sleep on it a couple of times. So make that a staged 25 minutes, i.e. 10 mins one day, 10 mins the next, then 5 mins on the third day. Only then will the mental block be gone
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by vorg 7y ago
> using all-lowercase letters for the compiler and title case for the language 'rakudo' is an implementation of 'Rakudo', huh? It's only natural for one to tag the specification and an implemention of it with dif
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by vorg 7y ago
> Groovy is one language Apache Groovy is two languages. The Groovy 2.x download, first released in 2012, bundles two different compilers that were both forked from the Groovy 1 compiler. Only one of them has upgraded to the JDK-7 invo
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by vorg 7y ago
> Grails which is a web framework for Groovy that is based on spring boot. It's plugins I thought Grails uses Spring Boot only from 3 onwards, and only versions up to Grails 2.x have a plugin ecosystem. Virtually no-one has upgraded
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by vorg 7y ago
Are you allowed to overlay the "yes" or "no" with different intonations? If not, then you can tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but you can't tell the whole truth in your answers.
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by vorg 7y ago
> jobs that could be automated with a few days or weeks of programmer effort Governments don't want the workers in their countries to not have a job, even when there's plenty of wealth to go around. Such people will actively de
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by vorg 7y ago
> The capitalisation is maybe the most annoying for me, I think it was designed with an IDE in mind If you don't have an IDE, you can start by making all functions and methods private. When you know you need it public, wrap the priv
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by vorg 7y ago
> 20 years ago, a typical team was mostly CS majors [...] Today however, especially in fields like frontend development, its extremely likely ZERO person in the team has a CS background A commercially successful frontend development requ
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by vorg 7y ago
> I know some people will use Python 2 beyond EOL, but at this point that's their task and the task of whomever they pay for assistance, not everyone else's Virtually every common OS (i.e. Windows, iOS, and Linux) provides Pyth
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by vorg 7y ago
An official "EOL" from the Python Benevolency doesn't mean Python 2 has reached the end of its life. There's too many projects out there using it for the same reasons this one is, i.e. "Because I started this projec
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by vorg 7y ago
> Indian identity was split right in the middle and was done on religious lines India and Pakistan also each have their own major river system (Ganges for India, Indus for Pakistan) which is important for food supply and low transport co
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by vorg 7y ago
> Objective C is much higher than Swift: 11 vs 18. And Apache Groovy rose from number 91 to number 17 in the past 12 months also according to that same Tiobe page (May 2019). Quoting Tiobe for anything only discredits what you're tr
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by vorg 7y ago
@AnaniasAnanas: And someone with less money than you can use your software source code "as a reference" when writing their own open source reimplementation. They won't put your name in the copyright notice because they didn&#
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by vorg 7y ago
Once upon a time in the West only property-owners could vote in national elections. Then they changed the law to give all citizens (over 18) the vote, regardless of whether they owned property or not. They should have changed the law so all
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by vorg 7y ago
> options with a better reputation, e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, Jython, Groovy Not sure why you'd put PHP and Apache Groovy in that list.

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