I would say C is worth discussing considering the story is about a guy who is all C, C++, Java and some rhodes scholar AC up there said JS has inferior abstractions.
Also please make sure not to conflate lambdas with closures. It's pedantic but they are different animals. I don't know enough about C++11 'cause I had the good sense to flee from that shit in the 90's so I can't speak to the implementation of it's lambdas to know if they can close over free variables. Java, for instance has anonymous inner classes which can behave like lambdas, in a manner of speaking, but you are explicitly forbidden from closure.
Closures are the mother of all abstractions. Any other abstractions can be made from them, so maybe you should learn yourself some comp sci before you sigh.
The shit are you talking about. C / C++ and Java do not have closures. Period. They have things that sorta kinda resemble closures but they are not them.
The point of complaining that it wasn't done in the first place is to emphasize that the people who put this into place are not qualified to make decisions of this magnitude and should be fired (or voted out).
You're conflating the concepts of wealth and value and using the terms in a lazy manner to make your shitty point. Plus the fact that you're not an authority on what "techies" or "intelligent" people consider, maybe not writing things should be a future pursuit of yours.
See that's awesome. I did the AI course, and did well enough that now I've signed up for Information Theory and Anatomy. I know they're kind of off the computer path (well info theory not so much but it's not CS) but I think getting that breadth of knowledge will be helpful. I only wish I had the time and energy to do more.
Wait wait wait. So you're saying that AT&T should be granted a near monopoly in the markets it controls (via government-subsidized bootstrapping), and then not be beholden to the tax payers? I'm sorry but I don't think I can take you seriously.
I felt the other way. I really enjoyed Sebastian's almost-whimsical adventure through the field of AI. I really think Ng is a good professor but I often found myself having trouble paying full attention for the entirety of the course.
I think always-GC is awesome. It forced TONS of research into high speed, low pause GC algorithms and in my not so humble opinion, we are all better off for it.
So then you have to learn more and step up your game. We need to stop making careers out of copying cells from Excel to Access and running compact and repair.
I'm personally of the opinion that the vast majority of modern white collar jobs are going to require some form of computer programming in the very near future. For example, my wife works in supply chain and the ridiculous shit they do because they are simply ignorant of even 50 year old computing methods cause them to waste a considerable amount of time and resources. It's not uncommon either, people get in a rut doing repetitive, computationally simple tasks because they don't know any better. Those kinds of jobs are doomed and I think that in order to be competitive or even hire-able you will need to know how to automate the minutiae.
That's what I thought but I wasn't sure what you meant. Just fyi, you can say that about any Turing complete language so I guess I don't understand what your point is.
I agree with your sentiment; the only language that doesn't suck is one you haven't written anything meaningful in -- and I've written a LOT of php.
I do think it's worse than most, with more defects/regressions per release than any other major platform and a really unsound underlying architecture built by a guy who literally hates computer science.
implode() can, for historical reasons, accept its parameters in either order. For consistency with explode(), however, it may be less confusing to use the documented order of arguments.
You don't say. I have written either assembly or machine code for at least 6 different architectures. It takes a LOT of work to really fuck something up in asm. Of course it takes a lot of work to do much of anything in asm, period. What I'm talking about is expressive power. In one line of Lisp, you could be dealing with so many abstractions, macros, etc. that it's easy to accidentally create intractable computations and not even realize it.
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I would say C is worth discussing considering the story is about a guy who is all C, C++, Java and some rhodes scholar AC up there said JS has inferior abstractions.
Also please make sure not to conflate lambdas with closures. It's pedantic but they are different animals. I don't know enough about C++11 'cause I had the good sense to flee from that shit in the 90's so I can't speak to the implementation of it's lambdas to know if they can close over free variables. Java, for instance has anonymous inner classes which can behave like lambdas, in a manner of speaking, but you are explicitly forbidden from closure.
Javascript is plenty retarded but Java does not have better closures. You can NOT close over free variables in a Java program.
I implicitly meant "of the languages you were discussing" which are C C++ and Java. Sorry I wasn't verbose enough to keep the context fresh for ya.
Closures are the mother of all abstractions. Any other abstractions can be made from them, so maybe you should learn yourself some comp sci before you sigh.
The shit are you talking about. C / C++ and Java do not have closures. Period. They have things that sorta kinda resemble closures but they are not them.
Javascript has closures and none of the other languages have them, sorry buddy, Javascript has superior abstractions.
It must be nice to be so retardedly rich that you can be ignorant as hell like this fellow and not have to give a shit.
The point of complaining that it wasn't done in the first place is to emphasize that the people who put this into place are not qualified to make decisions of this magnitude and should be fired (or voted out).
You're conflating the concepts of wealth and value and using the terms in a lazy manner to make your shitty point. Plus the fact that you're not an authority on what "techies" or "intelligent" people consider, maybe not writing things should be a future pursuit of yours.
Man if you have a full time job and a family ... well best of luck to you haha.
See that's awesome. I did the AI course, and did well enough that now I've signed up for Information Theory and Anatomy. I know they're kind of off the computer path (well info theory not so much but it's not CS) but I think getting that breadth of knowledge will be helpful. I only wish I had the time and energy to do more.
Wait wait wait. So you're saying that AT&T should be granted a near monopoly in the markets it controls (via government-subsidized bootstrapping), and then not be beholden to the tax payers? I'm sorry but I don't think I can take you seriously.
Because their tax dollars helped build and subsidize the infrastructure that AT&T uses.
I felt the other way. I really enjoyed Sebastian's almost-whimsical adventure through the field of AI. I really think Ng is a good professor but I often found myself having trouble paying full attention for the entirety of the course.
If there's a constant in this whole shitstorm mess it's that the clear winners are the lawyers.
I think always-GC is awesome. It forced TONS of research into high speed, low pause GC algorithms and in my not so humble opinion, we are all better off for it.
So then you have to learn more and step up your game. We need to stop making careers out of copying cells from Excel to Access and running compact and repair.
I'm personally of the opinion that the vast majority of modern white collar jobs are going to require some form of computer programming in the very near future. For example, my wife works in supply chain and the ridiculous shit they do because they are simply ignorant of even 50 year old computing methods cause them to waste a considerable amount of time and resources. It's not uncommon either, people get in a rut doing repetitive, computationally simple tasks because they don't know any better. Those kinds of jobs are doomed and I think that in order to be competitive or even hire-able you will need to know how to automate the minutiae.
That's what I thought but I wasn't sure what you meant. Just fyi, you can say that about any Turing complete language so I guess I don't understand what your point is.
Describe "freedom" in the context of your statement.
I agree with your sentiment; the only language that doesn't suck is one you haven't written anything meaningful in -- and I've written a LOT of php.
I do think it's worse than most, with more defects/regressions per release than any other major platform and a really unsound underlying architecture built by a guy who literally hates computer science.
Did you even click the link? PHP is objectively a bad language and a bad platform with a toxic ecosystem.
You're fucking kidding right?
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You don't say. I have written either assembly or machine code for at least 6 different architectures. It takes a LOT of work to really fuck something up in asm. Of course it takes a lot of work to do much of anything in asm, period. What I'm talking about is expressive power. In one line of Lisp, you could be dealing with so many abstractions, macros, etc. that it's easy to accidentally create intractable computations and not even realize it.