generally when I want to try a new language the first thing I will write is a cbc padding oracle
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it's reasonably entertaining, concrete, strictly pass/fail, forces you to use a variety of language features/constructs and a couple libraries, so serves as good intro
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I also get to have this great experience every time (having written this also in js, elixir, haskell) where I'm like "I forget why I did [something] last time hmm it seems unnecessary"
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and I finish and it's broken in some bizarre way and then I spend an hour or two staring at hexdumps and doing arithmetic in a repl
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and then I frown and go outside to smoke a cigarette and halfway through: "I remember why I did that thing now!!!"
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Have you tried rust yet?
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ya I've wrote it a bit but kind of soured on it. the syntax is all over the place and there's too much language already
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rust's biggest problem is it's an ideological battleground between ruby people, C++ people, and haskell people
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all of whom seem to get like 70% of what they want, so it can't satisfy anyone completely but still ends up bloated
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its memory semantics are great and I would love to see them in a smaller and more opinionated language
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cryptopals?
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nah I just do this a bunch
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I did like, the first six and half of the seventh of cryptopals tho, some in js when I'd first started programming, the rest in haskell
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I got bored on seven tho, dicking around with hash functions is uninteresting. I'll prolly do eight if/when they get posted
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What’s in Ocaml for an Fsharper?
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idk I don't know fsharp
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Seems that I forgot why I followed you initially. Anyway, I’ll be pleased if you keep informing on your perspective of OCaml (F# is like OCaml but for .Net)
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How many lines of OCaml does it take to implement a Lisp that can bootstrap John McCarthy's metacircular evaluator?pic.twitter.com/lCg7F1iUWl
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I got into OCaml about six months ago. So far I've been very happy. I'd really like them to finish the work on Modular Implicits but that's a quibble.
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I recommend https://discuss.ocaml.org/ for random questions and the like. It's been a good resource.
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