@avibryant The thing I find extraordinary is how easily people dismiss what's unfamiliar and ignore horrendous problems in the familiar.
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@johnmyleswhite they've built up calluses around those issues; the new issues are much more painful (in the short term). -
@avibryant Agreed. To me, it all suggests there's a lot of random noise in how languages get adopted. -
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@avibryant I got caught up in a lot of other projects. I'm hoping to get back to Thrift.jl in March/April.
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@avibryant Fortunately all of those problems can be papered over by the exciting feature set of Julia. -
@zmanji that's mostly true for me, in that I'm super excited about Julia and have been since it was announced. But have I written any? No...
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@avibryant This was a *much* better approach: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/d0DBZUn0nng/I_kMacy0raQJ … (that phrase has stuck in my memory a *long* time). -
@edouardpoor oh, I'm also much happier with a proper numeric tower. But I've learned not to instantly dismiss any system without one yet. -
@avibryant I'd rather twos complement be an opt-in language feature, rather than the other way around. That's how I treat numpy for example.
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@avibryant or even when there isn't a problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126726Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avibryant which is a shame. It would be great to get stats off R and S, won't want to learn eg. why there are different ints.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avibryant Your assumption that these people are potential users may be mistaken.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avibryant Wow - what {year|decade|century} is it now? I'm (still) surprised by the appeal of "Wronger answers faster!"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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