The 70-Year Old Programmer Maintaining SPITBOL
7 0 comments 13 Sep 2015 22:54 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingJohn Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
28 0 comments 13 Sep 2015 22:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingRead "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" On-Line
8 0 comments 12 Sep 2015 16:36 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingGuide for Implementing 2D Platformer Games
5 1 comment 11 Sep 2015 19:42 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingComputer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should
2 0 comments 11 Sep 2015 18:38 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingLinus Torvalds is tired indeed of "trivially obvious improvements" that are actually buggy
90 45 comments 11 Sep 2015 18:32 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingComment on: How Google's New Logo Can be Just 305 Bytes
Something I read said it was just for low bandwidth connections, or only for certain browsers or devices. Can't confirm if that's true though.
Comment on: The curse of varargs
Where's that thumnail icon coming from?
A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
1 0 comments 07 Sep 2015 18:10 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingThe mystery of the fifteen-millisecond breakpoint instruction
13 0 comments 05 Sep 2015 23:32 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingHow Google's New Logo Can be Just 305 Bytes
26 10 comments 04 Sep 2015 11:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingctypes.sh - A Foreign Function Interface for the Bash Shell
3 0 comments 03 Sep 2015 13:02 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingThe Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman
1 0 comments 01 Sep 2015 20:21 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingComment on: Python or Perl? + Questions
I've spent quite a lot of time using Perl, and I'm not really a fan. The culture around Perl is degenerate, constantly trying to prove their relevance. They try to excuse the bad choices for Perl's syntax by saying that its inventor was a "linguist", as if we should trust some alleged academic authority instead of our own eyes and brains.
I agree with most of Xah Lee's rants about the Perl community, e.g. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/perlr.html
I haven't used Python much, but I'd recommend Python instead, just to help Perl die.
However, Python is said to have a degenerate culture as well: see http://xahlee.info/perl-python/python_doc.html and http://xahlee.info/perl-python/xlali_skami_cukta.html.
Comment on: For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesnt exist
Dunno, it worked (and continues to work) for me.
For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesnt exist
37 17 comments 13 Aug 2015 23:29 u/svipbo (..) in v/programmingComment on: [PDF] A big ass timeline of programming languages
This is one of the best programming family trees I've seen by far.
That's not a great user interface. You have to look to the top right to read this message, and then get sent away to the bottom of the screen to enter the code. Why not put the message to enter the code right next to where you have to enter it?