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olzdon Bun support is now limited and deprecated

Are you aware this is satire?

olzdon Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021

Probably Brzozowski’s derivative of regular expressions, e.g https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf

olzdon Beating C with Dyalog APL

How nice of you to copy/paste my reddit comment!

olzdon Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With

You type 'proc' and let the editor autocomplete that for you: this is a long solved issue.

olzdon Hy

I like the parens for the structured editing they allow. Also, you don't need parens to be homoiconic.

olzdon Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub

The -O3 switch removes a recursive call, among other things (https://godbolt.org/z/oS3Cju).

olzdon The Problem With APLs

> When I get a request for something slightly different, I almost have to start from scratch.

You don't really start from scratch though (at least I don't): most of the time you can reuse idioms with minimal adaptation.

olzdon The Problem With APLs

I disagree: it's not that hard to gradually get to a solution via the REPL.

olzdon Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you

Actually there is: be a EU resident. It's even explicitely stated there.

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

> Reading and understanding the Idris proof is actually more work than understanding the untyped Python version, therefore it's actually harder to say whether it's correct or not in a semantic sense.

But you don't have to write a proof to sort a list in Idris. So you're not being honest with your comparison.

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

If only people could properly argument...

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

Latest release is June 28, 2018. SBCL REPL kinda sucks by itself but nobody uses it that way.

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

I hope you realize the Idris code actually prove that the list will be correctly sorted, unlike your python code.

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

Yeah, you managed to link a comment with some code (although I agree it looks useless)... I expected a github link to some lib relying on undocumented macros.

> I don't know what's the worst. That you can't help it or that you won't ever recognize you have a problem.

Anyone can write bad code. Lisp certainly makes it easier, I won't deny it. And no, I don't have a problem, thank you.

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

Alright, do you have an actual example to show?

olzdon The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)

Come on. A lack of tests or documentation isn't specific to Lisp. TBH, I'd rather use a well-designed DSL than a shitty API.

olzdon Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

So? If you want a lightweight app, both JavaFX and Electron are bad.

olzdon F* – An ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification

Idris certainly is nice but I doubt anyone uses it for real stuff.