wues

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by wues 5y ago
Yes, the distinction between class and instance methods in an interface with + and - characters must be one of the most elegant solutions introduced in a programming language ever. Seriously, I could never understand this claim of "ele
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by wues 5y ago
In the case of Erlang the answer to your question about meaningful differences is: oh yes! I could list more, but there are two: - support for concurrency. After tasting it you never will want to go back to techniques normally used in the l
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by wues 5y ago
So you think that in USSR there were startups and private investors? Interesting.
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by wues 7y ago
No I didn’t. The statement was that Typescript solves the listed issues, which is obviously not true. There may be of course discussion whether TS _helps_ to solve such issues but you won’t be able to convince me that TS _solves_ e.g. lack
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by wues 7y ago
"We have problems, let’s introduce some code style guidelines, linting, error reporting and most importantly tests!" "Nah, let's just switch to Typescript, it will solve all those problems. At least partially."
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by wues 7y ago
Erlang guarantees tail call optimisation.
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by wues 7y ago
No it wouldn't. Sending three or four transfers from mobile banking app is for sure faster than finding bank number, calling them, listening to the info that the conversation will be recorded, listening to the menu, then listening to m
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by wues 8y ago
I never said that this language would be simple. Just simpler than C++ we know.
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by wues 8y ago
They all may have excellent C compatibility, but this is not the point. The point is that without C compatibility C++ could be smaller and simpler, and yet still meeting the same goals and covering the same use cases. Objective C has Smallt
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by wues 8y ago
C compatibility was the very reason for which C++ is bigger, more complicated and less safe than a similar language not compatible with C could be.
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by wues 11y ago
In "Thus Spoke Lem" - a several hundred pages interview with Lem - there is a chapter about Lem's likes and dislikes in literature. He is asked about books which influenced his thought and he mentions several of them, read wh
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by wues 11y ago
A side note: Lem knew and liked GEB, and there are many similarities between e.g. dialogues in GEB and Lem's The Cyberiad.
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by wues 11y ago
Don't destroy Joyce's wordplay: it is Finnegans Wake, not Finnegan's Wake
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by wues 12y ago
Then Perl 6 aka 2000 would share the fate of Wordstar 2000. But I guess it will anyway.
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by wues 12y ago
Oversimplification indeed - to the extent that for the first one year and a half of WW2 Germany and Russia were allies.
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by wues 12y ago
Congratulations! Your accusation of Stroustrup's strawman is strawman itself.