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True | julesjacobs | null | For lists I agree. A better solution is to give List two type parameters, which would give you co- and contravariance without additional effort by the user of the list. This solution is both simpler and more general than adding new interfaces.
That said, there are uses for write only interfaces. For example in Scala t... | null | 0 | 1318368874 | False | 0 | c2qouze | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qouze | t1_c2qoa7v | null | 1427717941 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318368958 | True | 0 | c2qovg2 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qovg2 | t1_c2qnuwa | null | 1427717947 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | QuestionMarker | null | That's implementation-dependent. In MRI Ruby (and in some Lisps, where I believe the idea came from), the number 0 is actually represented as 0x00000001. All (31-bit) integers are represented by the value left-shifted once, with a 1 as the lowest bit. This means they fit inside a pointer, so they can be used as if they... | null | 0 | 1318368979 | False | 0 | c2qovjp | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qovjp | t1_c2qnjh4 | null | 1427717949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sure.
But you shouldn't do so because you think your language is going to be the salvation of software engineering.
Oh, and you also shouldn't bother unless you consider this to be gentle praise, because you're going to get far more aggressive insults than this list.
The real trick is to avoid most of the sins on th... | null | 0 | 1318369017 | False | 0 | c2qovrc | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qovrc | t1_c2qofh8 | null | 1427717951 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildeye | null | In a cheap business suit from Sears. | null | 0 | 1318369030 | False | 0 | c2qovtv | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qovtv | t1_c2qok19 | null | 1427717952 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trezor2 | null | C#? | null | 0 | 1318369031 | False | 0 | c2qovu5 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qovu5 | t1_c2qlmtu | null | 1427717952 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cultic_raider | null | Thanks for he correction. I still think it is possible to do TCO, but there is potential for combinatorical explosion in a state machine that captures the cycles in the function call network.
I think Kilim or one of those Java actors systems dose this, but I forget what the constraints are.
Also, I see some web pages... | null | 0 | 1318369097 | False | 0 | c2qow5w | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qow5w | t1_c2qoe16 | null | 1427717957 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | olsner | null | Yep, analogies are like leaky screwdrivers...
I was trying to say that they have a large common subset (English), and none of that common stuff disappears just because one of them also has a large set of other things (from a non-English language, or from the ++ in C++) that could be used but are outside of the common ... | null | 0 | 1318369118 | False | 0 | c2qow9e | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qow9e | t1_c2qo242 | null | 1427717959 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trezor2 | null | No source = not going to happen. We will have tpnwait for ICS, like Google has said a million times. | null | 0 | 1318369145 | False | 0 | c2qowez | t3_l8cws | null | t1_c2qowez | t1_c2qogal | null | 1427717961 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | Javascript is not and will not ever be as fast as C in general, but you're right that Javascript is plenty fast now. Jaegermonkey is as fast as Google's V8, and Mozilla still have a bunch more optimizations planned out.
But one of the stated goals for Google's Dart is to have better performance than JavaScript. The ... | null | 0 | 1318369163 | False | 0 | c2qowi4 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qowi4 | t1_c2qnuwa | null | 1427717962 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | conjury | null | Twelf. | null | 0 | 1318369165 | False | 0 | c2qowik | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qowik | t1_c2qnswk | null | 1427717962 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You can implement "anything" in a single line of C? That's unambitious.
#include "all_languages.c"
(all_languages.c is a library module in progress.) | null | 0 | 1318369195 | False | 0 | c2qowoz | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qowoz | t1_c2qokpt | null | 1427717964 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | QuestionMarker | null | As I say, it might make sense if the deterministic code doesn't exist yet but you know what the interface is going to be. It also might if the deterministic code is slow just because it's computationally heavy. | null | 0 | 1318369247 | False | 0 | c2qowzu | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qowzu | t1_c2qopqn | null | 1427717968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NruJaC | null | Hmm, I'll have to play with it.
On a side note, how long is it going to take before clang catches up in feature parity with gcc? I've been waiting for the llvm revolution for years now. | null | 0 | 1318369260 | False | 0 | c2qox2q | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qox2q | t1_c2qolpw | null | 1427717969 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | How is this different from Javascript? A stated goal for Dart is to improve performance, but I don't see how this is done if types are only known to the compiler for issuing warnings. | null | 0 | 1318369293 | False | 0 | c2qox8g | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qox8g | t1_c2qopdf | null | 1427717971 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | -whileone- | null | Here on reddit we like to complain about the ones nobody uses. | null | 0 | 1318369330 | False | 0 | c2qoxge | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoxge | t1_c2qnuw2 | null | 1427717974 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rcinsf | null | BEANS! | null | 0 | 1318369355 | False | 0 | c2qoxkt | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoxkt | t1_c2qo7a3 | null | 1427717976 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sacundim | null | > For a class, I once had to code in a new language which had only one compiler implementation, and that had this flaw. The most common way the compiler would "report" a bug in the program was to just drop into an infinite loop. When you finally gave up on it, of course you received no error message, let alone a lin... | null | 0 | 1318369361 | False | 0 | c2qoxls | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoxls | t1_c2qoq75 | null | 1427717976 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gobliin | null | I use ctags and etags every day. They are fine for C code. For C++, they are a joke. | null | 0 | 1318369448 | False | 0 | c2qoy0g | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qoy0g | t1_c2qo7c1 | null | 1427717981 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | > Why break backwards compatibility with millions of scripts in production use every day just to be like every other language?
That isn't what I'm advocating at all. I was giving reasons why perl is a messed up language, not "This is what perl needs to implement." It is impossible to make perl into a modern langua... | null | 0 | 1318369496 | False | 0 | c2qoybk | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qoybk | t1_c2qoshj | null | 1427717985 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | I feel that it's a fair point that design patterns exist because of the lack of this functionality at a language level. If you read the GoF book, the iterator pattern would take anyone who has only used modern languages by surprise. In Java (and I make my living from Java so I like it plenty) the vast majority of facto... | null | 0 | 1318369522 | False | 0 | c2qoyfc | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qoyfc | t1_c2qnx1c | null | 1427717987 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NruJaC | null | You don't know the number of varargs at run time? Isn't there a way to query that in most languages?
I'm also not sure what you mean by the second comment. Have an example? | null | 0 | 1318369542 | False | 0 | c2qoyjb | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2qoyjb | t1_c2qom9x | null | 1427717988 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | Wrong. There are many things wrong with PHP, and that comes from a PHP user. | null | 0 | 1318369552 | False | 0 | c2qoyl7 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoyl7 | t1_c2qombf | null | 1427717989 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nicholas22 | null | This link doesn't document the law suit, it's PR from Sun. | null | 0 | 1318369596 | False | 0 | c2qoyu5 | t3_l81mh | null | t1_c2qoyu5 | t1_c2qo6xm | null | 1427717992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mark_lee_smith | null | The irony of "some guy" on perl.org talking about good language design. | null | 0 | 1318369633 | False | 0 | c2qoz10 | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qoz10 | t3_l7wry | null | 1427717995 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haywire | null | Sorry, the entirety of jQuery is 9,000 lines and that does loads of stuff. This is 17,000 lines to print "Hello, Darter".
That is fucking obscene. | null | 0 | 1318369653 | False | 0 | c2qoz3v | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qoz3v | t1_c2qje8m | null | 1427717996 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318369679 | False | 0 | c2qoz99 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoz99 | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427717998 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | samaaron | null | Hey HickyAU - you should head along to the Overtone mailing list: groups.google.com/group/overtone
We should be able to easily help you get Overtone set up on your machine :-) | null | 0 | 1318369689 | False | 0 | c2qozat | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2qozat | t1_c2q1e9b | null | 1427717998 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | -whileone- | null | My favorite language has a constant that's 510 characters long. | null | 0 | 1318369695 | False | 0 | c2qozc1 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qozc1 | t1_c2qokpt | null | 1427717999 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This does not address Google's primary failure, although your point is certainly valid. The problem is not JavaScript and it is not whether or not something is a standard. The problem is the platform and the people who develop on that platform. I think Google is attempting to identify such, but failed to do so in ex... | null | 0 | 1318369705 | True | 0 | c2qoze3 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2qoze3 | t1_c2j67v2 | null | 1427717999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | partysnatcher | null | Yeah I think I "might" realize that. Obviously, Java has many layers of abstraction today. It is built to be transparent and predictable, but we all know it's not. Yet.
And your suggestion is to patch this with more abstraction? Adding more overhead, less transparency? Splitting the scene even further into miscellaneo... | null | 0 | 1318369770 | False | 0 | c2qozpo | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qozpo | t1_c2qoavb | null | 1427718003 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | biggerthancheeses | null | "Hey girl, want to see my `BabyInjectionFactoryImpl` instance?" | null | 0 | 1318369781 | False | 0 | c2qozr9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qozr9 | t1_c2qok19 | null | 1427718004 | 78 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318369784 | False | 0 | c2qozs0 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qozs0 | t1_c2qoepx | null | 1427718004 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318369791 | False | 0 | c2qoztr | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qoztr | t1_c2qos9f | null | 1427718005 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmpk2k | null | I don't grok the dislike for multiple inheritance. Prefer composition over inheritance -- sure -- but C3 linearization is really old news by now. | null | 0 | 1318369806 | False | 0 | c2qozwc | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qozwc | t1_c2qo21k | null | 1427718006 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Very last line... "Programming in this language is an adequate punishment for inventing it." | null | 0 | 1318369814 | False | 0 | c2qozxu | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qozxu | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718006 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Please sir, can I have some more internet rations? | null | 0 | 1318369817 | False | 0 | c2qozym | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qozym | t1_c2qnzsz | null | 1427718007 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haywire | null | Well yeah, either a client side cache of (bytecode/compiled JS) or server side sort of things like pyc would probably be ideal.
Then again, Google controls a dominant browser so I'm sure they can cater for this. | null | 0 | 1318369825 | False | 0 | c2qozzz | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qozzz | t1_c2qkmgd | null | 1427718007 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roboduck | null | Khan Noone Singh never runs his own benchmarks. | null | 0 | 1318369846 | False | 0 | c2qp03s | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp03s | t1_c2qopbq | null | 1427718009 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phil_s_stein | null | See? Flamewar!
| null | 0 | 1318369923 | False | 0 | c2qp0ic | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qp0ic | t1_c2qoy0g | null | 1427718014 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwynjudd | null | I'd make a longer reply, but I live in New Zealand and I ran out of my bandwidth cap. | null | 0 | 1318369946 | False | 0 | c2qp0mv | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp0mv | t1_c2qos9f | null | 1427718015 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318369998 | False | 0 | c2qp0x3 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp0x3 | t1_c2qos9f | null | 1427718019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phil_s_stein | null | Fair enough. It's overkill for me, not for you. | null | 0 | 1318370004 | False | 0 | c2qp0yc | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qp0yc | t1_c2qojbt | null | 1427718020 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rich97 | null | > Perl... well.
I started Perl recently for a new job, it's an absolute nightmare to maintain the system I've been lumped with. Even the lead developer who originally designed and coded it is getting fed up with it. | null | 0 | 1318370069 | False | 0 | c2qp1ao | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qp1ao | t1_c2qo1l4 | null | 1427718024 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ziggamorph | null | It exists, it's called Object Pascal and it's the main language of Delphi. | null | 0 | 1318370082 | False | 0 | c2qp1dq | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp1dq | t1_c2qooe8 | null | 1427718025 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Porges | null | [They wanted the CLR to support Java-likes when it was created](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/10/17/covariance-and-contravariance-in-c-part-two-array-covariance.aspx), so C# then added the ability to use these arrays... and it inherited this flaw. This actually means that inserting into an array alwa... | null | 0 | 1318370082 | False | 0 | c2qp1e0 | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qp1e0 | t1_c2qne9h | null | 1427718025 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | you could really just simplify it and have one checkbox:
[ ] `Your language (IS / IS NOT) C++. ` | null | 0 | 1318370129 | False | 0 | c2qp1nk | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp1nk | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718029 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | draxus99 | null | I would advocate a programming language that isn't written exclusively in horizontal lines that stack vertically and are read from left to right top to bottom! | null | 0 | 1318370182 | False | 0 | c2qp1wz | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp1wz | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718033 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Porges | null | Then you end up with the C# analogue of the [CRTP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_pattern):
class Foo<T> where T : Foo<T>
virtual T DeepClone()
class FooBar<FooBar>
override FooBar DeepClone()
| null | 0 | 1318370186 | False | 0 | c2qp1y4 | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qp1y4 | t1_c2qorvt | null | 1427718033 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drakeypoo | null | "No one believes your language is faster than Ruby"? Oh come on, that's not too difficult. | null | 0 | 1318370260 | False | 0 | c2qp2d4 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp2d4 | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718038 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That is because serious jQuery advocates are a religious cult. | null | 0 | 1318370414 | False | 0 | c2qp36m | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qp36m | t1_c2qje8m | null | 1427718049 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | That's not a source. | null | 0 | 1318370475 | False | 0 | c2qp3iq | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2qp3iq | t1_c2qn7ai | null | 1427718053 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cs80 | null | I think you mean:
BabyInjectionSingletonVisitorFactoryImpl | null | 0 | 1318370532 | False | 0 | c2qp3tq | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp3tq | t1_c2qozr9 | null | 1427718057 | 55 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alephnil | null | If you are compiling on the same platform as you are developing for, it is not a big problem. If you are cross-compiling, it may be more of a problem. | null | 0 | 1318370547 | False | 0 | c2qp3x4 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp3x4 | t1_c2qooy6 | null | 1427718058 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | migelius | null | Spit out part of my apple at this one:
[ ] You have reinvented Brainfuck but non-ironically | null | 0 | 1318370555 | False | 0 | c2qp3yp | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp3yp | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718060 | 55 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Huh, I would have guessed it was from usenet, but the only google groups results I see are dated after the slashdot posting. | null | 0 | 1318370573 | False | 0 | c2qp42g | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp42g | t1_c2qof4r | null | 1427718061 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | systematical | null | I've begun moving some regression testing for client work over to http://seleniumhq.org/. | null | 0 | 1318370626 | False | 0 | c2qp4cd | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2qp4cd | t3_l887z | null | 1427718064 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Unmitigated_Smut | null | Hate to distract from the piss-all-over-subversion contest, but anyhow, it looks like they're saying there will only be one .svn directory in my checkouts now, instead of one in every directory. That seems kind of nice. But the meta-data will all be in a SQLLite db file, which kinda concerns me. Or should it? | null | 0 | 1318370700 | False | 0 | c2qp4q3 | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qp4q3 | t3_l8jdh | null | 1427718069 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRBMe | null | > I was trying to say that they have a large common subset (English), and none of that common stuff disappears just because one of them also has a large set of other things (from a non-English language, or from the ++ in C++) that could be used but are outside of the common subset.
That doesn't make them different ... | null | 0 | 1318370726 | False | 0 | c2qp4v6 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qp4v6 | t1_c2qow9e | null | 1427718071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "Chung-chieh Shan doesn't understand covariance" would be one of those extraordinary claims that requires extraordinary evidence. | null | 0 | 1318370728 | False | 0 | c2qp4vf | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qp4vf | t1_c2qmwb9 | null | 1427718071 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jnnnnn | null | and it's quite nice, now that they've finally added generics. | null | 0 | 1318370775 | False | 0 | c2qp54q | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp54q | t1_c2qp1dq | null | 1427718075 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Perspective of a KDE user, I guess.
Oh my, doesn't "KDE4" ring a bell? | null | 0 | 1318370775 | False | 0 | c2qp54s | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2qp54s | t1_c2qonws | null | 1427718075 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TexasWithADollarsign | null | As a fellow PHP programmer, what are the many things wrong with PHP? I'm sure we may find some agreement. | null | 0 | 1318370793 | False | 0 | c2qp587 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp587 | t1_c2qoyl7 | null | 1427718076 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | last_useful_man | null | note, that the mods made 'notprogrammingnazi' (who used to go around saying the same thing about posts) a mod. (He seems to have gone soft, but I don't blame him, it's an exhausting, neverending task.)
But there are /quality/ questions beyond just spam and abuse. It won't kill anything to trim off the stuff that could... | null | 0 | 1318370825 | False | 0 | c2qp5eb | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qp5eb | t1_c2qlc70 | null | 1427718078 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Aardshark | null | That would make sense, thanks! | null | 0 | 1318370827 | False | 0 | c2qp5ev | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp5ev | t1_c2qp3x4 | null | 1427718078 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TexasWithADollarsign | null | > it's the worst ideas of C, Java, and Perl all thrown together
Such as?
Seriously, as a PHP programmer, I would like to hear what they are. | null | 0 | 1318370835 | False | 0 | c2qp5gi | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp5gi | t1_c2qopff | null | 1427718079 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DarXtalker | null | The author o this deserves credit.
Is he a kind of root.Destiny of programming ? | null | 0 | 1318370876 | False | 0 | c2qp5p3 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp5p3 | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718082 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lim_nick | null | woops! I posted that link on quora and thought I was posting the same link here. Guess I copied the wrong one! | null | 0 | 1318370986 | False | 0 | c2qp69z | t3_l8948 | null | t1_c2qp69z | t1_c2qns7m | null | 1427718090 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | Maybe they're referring to a hard requirement to link against standard libs (e.g., C lacks this because it can be written to not depend on libc). Not a problem for anything outside of systems programming languages, but *is* an issue if you want to write embedded or very low-level code. | null | 0 | 1318371025 | False | 0 | c2qp6h5 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp6h5 | t1_c2qooy6 | null | 1427718092 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marssaxman | null | I suppose it's not the lack of an integer type which bothers me so much as the fact that an approximative datatype is the only numeric option. Most of the numeric code I write has to do with counting or indexing; I want precise numbers, not approximations. What does it mean to look up a fractional member of an array? C... | null | 0 | 1318371044 | False | 0 | c2qp6k0 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qp6k0 | t1_c2qostc | null | 1427718093 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | > The basic problem with covariant generics is that it lets you take a bowl of apples and call it a bowl of fruit.
Generic mutable collections are not covariant. Generic immutable collections are. He implies that a type system with "covariant generics" must allow a fruit bowl to be covariant. That's not true. | null | 0 | 1318371136 | False | 0 | c2qp72t | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qp72t | t1_c2qp4vf | null | 1427718100 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | Ahh, thanks. | null | 0 | 1318371147 | False | 0 | c2qp74o | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp74o | t1_c2qoatj | null | 1427718101 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318371200 | False | 0 | c2qp7d2 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7d2 | t1_c2qp587 | null | 1427718104 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JasonSteinmetz | null | Thank you and you make a valid point. I certainly did not adaquately represent the run time of the integer operations in the algorithm. | null | 0 | 1318371216 | False | 0 | c2qp7fg | t3_l80vy | null | t1_c2qp7fg | t1_c2qntqz | null | 1427718104 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddddditer | null | It's hard to pronounce, for one thing. | null | 0 | 1318371223 | False | 0 | c2qp7ht | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7ht | t1_c2qp587 | null | 1427718105 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318371226 | False | 0 | c2qp7jc | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7jc | t1_c2qp587 | null | 1427718106 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcmillen | null | Feel free to create a set of "Your post is not appropriate for this reddit because..." form-letter; I'll gladly fill it out :) | null | 0 | 1318371228 | False | 0 | c2qp7k6 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7k6 | t1_c2qoz99 | null | 1427718106 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neon_overload | null | I appreciate the sentiment, and would like to be able to do something like that. Maybe I'll try writing a compatibility layer one day and see how far I get with it.
For an example of how they act in different ways, jQuery does this:
.append('<p>Test</p>');
Whereas in Neon, that same call would creat... | null | 0 | 1318371234 | False | 0 | c2qp7lx | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qp7lx | t1_c2qm14s | null | 1427718107 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crutcher | null | See this? This is extra special PHP crazy-sauce shitty. This is a clear indication that the PHP developers themselves are shitty:
$c = new \my\name\MyClass; | null | 0 | 1318371245 | False | 0 | c2qp7oi | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7oi | t1_c2qombf | null | 1427718108 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | p-squared | null | You need a C++ parser to generate context-sensitive autocompletions. When autocompleting fields of a struct instance, only a true parser can determine the correct instance type and provide only the set of possible completions which make sense in context. This is incredibly useful in large codebases, and it seems like... | null | 0 | 1318371291 | False | 0 | c2qp7xd | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qp7xd | t1_c2qost6 | null | 1427718111 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have to admit, "Spooky action at a distance" does make programming more fun! | null | 0 | 1318371291 | False | 0 | c2qp7xe | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp7xe | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718111 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | olsner | null | > If you have a definition of "Programming Language" which allows ...
The way I see it is that I usually write "C/C++" whenever I write what you'd have to call exactly one of C or C++. I just adjust the subset of "C/C++" I use between various extremes depending on where the code needs to work: in a C compiler, a C+... | null | 0 | 1318371294 | False | 0 | c2qp7ya | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qp7ya | t1_c2qo242 | null | 1427718111 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Short_Sighted_Guy | null | Can't we just make one universal language that uses all of the strengths of every language and none of the weaknesses? | null | 0 | 1318371425 | False | 0 | c2qp8nl | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp8nl | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718120 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marssaxman | null | Do it because it's fun, it's interesting, and it will teach you lots about what programming really means. | null | 0 | 1318371476 | False | 0 | c2qp8xd | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp8xd | t1_c2qofh8 | null | 1427718124 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | p4ndaman | null | This is great. I would recommend that future hackers copy/paste the ip address to hack google even faster. | null | 0 | 1318371492 | False | 0 | c2qp915 | t3_l8sk8 | null | t1_c2qp915 | t3_l8sk8 | null | 1427718126 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | IMO KDE4 was a release management fuckup, not a tech fuckup. I actually like KDE4.7 a lot. | null | 0 | 1318371512 | False | 0 | c2qp94g | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2qp94g | t1_c2qp54s | null | 1427718126 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marssaxman | null | Not when you are cross-compiling. | null | 0 | 1318371559 | False | 0 | c2qp9ed | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qp9ed | t1_c2qooy6 | null | 1427718130 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318371622 | 1380816309 | 0 | c2qp9q3 | t3_l8sk8 | null | t1_c2qp9q3 | t3_l8sk8 | null | 1427718134 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tomlu709 | null | Unless I'm missing something I can't see any references to it in the changelog. Would you have a handy link? | null | 0 | 1318371697 | False | 0 | c2qpa3j | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qpa3j | t1_c2qp4q3 | null | 1427718139 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | I have used Jaxen for XML and was very successful. It too offers object model support:
http://jaxen.codehaus.org/faq.html
> Thus, jaxen provides a single point for XPath expression evaluation, regardless of the target object model, whether its dom4j, JDOM, DOM, XOM, JavaBeans, or what not.
| null | 0 | 1318371702 | False | 0 | c2qpa4u | t3_l81mh | null | t1_c2qpa4u | t1_c2qopph | null | 1427718141 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aregulardude | null | Why can't we code in English and just TELL the computer what to do. Can you make me a compiler for that? | null | 0 | 1318371732 | False | 0 | c2qpaai | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpaai | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427718143 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darknebula | null | Yup. I'm working on it. It's taking a while. | null | 0 | 1318371755 | False | 0 | c2qpaep | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpaep | t1_c2qp8nl | null | 1427718144 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | It does document a fierce determination to stay behind, in a pigheaded pursuit of a unique notion of OO. I mean Smalltalk has code blocks.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318371930 | False | 0 | c2qpbdi | t3_l8sk8 | null | t1_c2qpbdi | t3_l8sk8 | null | 1427718157 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notSorella | null | It is allowed, but ignored. I personally find this behaviour particularly consusing, given:
>> [1,2,3,].length
3
>> [,1,2,3].length
4 | null | 0 | 1318371944 | False | 0 | c2qpbfp | t3_l765i | null | t1_c2qpbfp | t1_c2qorr3 | null | 1427718157 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bandikoto | null | Whereas in APL, it's common practice. | null | 0 | 1318371965 | False | 0 | c2qpbjz | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpbjz | t1_c2qon15 | null | 1427718159 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cynicalmoose | null | Unfortunately your programming language complaint form is missing: *Unfortunately your language is missing: curly braces [ ]* [ ] | null | 0 | 1318371982 | False | 0 | c2qpbn9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpbn9 | t1_c2qndd1 | null | 1427718160 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirun | null | I love Ruby, but sometimes posting your problem on the Internet, and having somebody write the solution in C and get back to you would be faster. | null | 0 | 1318372000 | False | 0 | c2qpbqa | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpbqa | t1_c2qp2d4 | null | 1427718161 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phil_s_stein | null | I probably am trivializing it and for that I'm sorry. I suppose I don't use the things it gives you, so I don't see the point. For the more advance search/find/replace/etc I will drop out of vim and use command line tools. If this becomes stable maybe I'll give it a shot and become a convert.
BTW: Thanks for the thou... | null | 0 | 1318372010 | False | 0 | c2qpbt5 | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qpbt5 | t1_c2qp7xd | null | 1427718162 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OverKillv7 | null | Me give short reply you save bandwidth good | null | 0 | 1318372044 | False | 0 | c2qpbzu | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qpbzu | t1_c2qp0mv | null | 1427718165 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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