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dented42
·3 dagen geleden·discuss
It’s difficult to interpret his position as being in good faith given the organisation that controls and represents.
dented42
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Gods I feel old…
dented42
·vorige maand·discuss
I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that I don’t think the author has any troops anywhere, let alone in Ukraine.
dented42
·vorige maand·discuss
Those issues could have been fixed…
dented42
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
So it sounds like you don’t get the exact version you want because metadata is thrown away.
dented42
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I think the law is wrong…
dented42
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
I definitely miss Darcs. I still use it very occasionally, but only with very small repos.
dented42
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Did you read what this does? Because I get the feeling you didn’t…

This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part.

Is this comment written by AI?
dented42
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.
dented42
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Ha, I was going to say the exact opposite. My first thought was that the website was broken.
dented42
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.
dented42
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
That feels fundamentally broken. How can you expect an organisation to respond appropriately if you don’t provide them any kind of proof?
dented42
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Well my first testing of the waters was classified as a misdirected love letter.
dented42
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
It looks like there’s a download link that contains the source code. Presumably you untar it, follow any necessary build instructions, and then run it.
dented42
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I love to see modern analysis of these machine!
dented42
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Ah. So we’re recreating COBOL in 2026 I see.
dented42
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
This very much depends on your definition of ‘best’. While your criticisms of the environment are valid, smalltalk is flexible in tangible ways that Java couldn’t match. Java took the OO model of smalltalk and make a bunch compromises that had big negative impacts on the language that are still there today.

Smalltalk was (and still is in some places) successful because of its portability, flexibility, etc. while it hasn’t enjoyed the degree of success as Java, ruby, perl, python, C++, and friends it would be a mistake to call it just a you.
dented42
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I can’t be alone in this, but this seems like a supremely terrible idea. I reject whole heartedly the idea that any sizeable portion of one’s code base should specifically /not/ be human interpretable as a design choice.

There’s a chance this is a joke, but even if it is I don’t wanna give the AI tech bros more terrible ideas, they have enough. ;)
dented42
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
It’s heartbreaking.
dented42
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
That kind of feedback is also possible within this framework in theory. It depends on at what level the abstract interpreter is operating. If it’s the source level then it’s easy, but propagating that from an IR to source code is, shall we say, an open question.