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True | Iv8f | null | It does if you compile other languages to it. But for that to make sense the vm would have to be in all major browsers which probably won't happen. | null | 0 | 1318478678 | False | 0 | c2r2txa | t3_l9mau | null | t1_c2r2txa | t1_c2r0nyz | null | 1427724656 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dewski | null | NeXT, Pixar, Apple | null | 0 | 1318478826 | False | 0 | c2r2unz | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2unz | t1_c2r2p8s | null | 1427724666 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | Because I screwed up when I first wrote the status and I didn't realize it right away.
I touch on this in the post you replied to:
>Got me why ritchie is on the stack instead of the heap (which would make the free() call redundant). It just felt right. Maybe I'm making commentary on how he was garbage-collected be... | null | 0 | 1318478886 | False | 0 | c2r2uz8 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2uz8 | t1_c2r2r8f | null | 1427724670 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xon_xoff | null | Finding the "this" pointer is another trick that's useful. It arrives in ecx on entry to an x86 function and the VC++ compiler almost always stashes it in the ebx or esi registers, so (MyClass *)ebx and (MyClass *)esi has a high chance of finding it. The automatic vtable decode in the debugger then lets you know if you... | null | 0 | 1318478907 | False | 0 | c2r2v2v | t3_l9og4 | null | t1_c2r2v2v | t1_c2qya5c | null | 1427724670 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | calc0000 | null | Not just you not having a job; the world wouldn't be the same without C and/or Unix. | null | 0 | 1318478952 | False | 0 | c2r2vb8 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2vb8 | t1_c2r2i7k | null | 1427724674 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Goodnight Sweet Prince. | null | 0 | 1318479157 | False | 0 | c2r2w8v | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2w8v | t3_laci4 | null | 1427724686 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bbluelight | null | So he can exist but never be accessed again? | null | 0 | 1318479165 | False | 0 | c2r2waf | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2waf | t1_c2r2mq3 | null | 1427724687 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirakun | null | free(&ritchie); /* goodbye, legend. */
FTFY. May as well go with the man's original vision of the language. | null | 0 | 1318479221 | False | 0 | c2r2wj9 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2wj9 | t1_c2r2m1e | null | 1427724689 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > but he was good at promoting apple and their expensive products.
Ah, see, you *almost* made it. | null | 0 | 1318479222 | False | 0 | c2r2wkd | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2wkd | t1_c2r2p8s | null | 1427724691 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirakun | null | Some compiler (clang?) actually looks into the literal string and checks for any formatter, e.g. %s, %d, %f, and see if the variable arguments' types match.
Pretty slick. | null | 0 | 1318479318 | False | 0 | c2r2x14 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2x14 | t1_c2r2iip | null | 1427724697 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schauerlich | null | malloc(40); // pour one out for my homies | null | 0 | 1318479370 | False | 0 | c2r2x9z | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2x9z | t1_c2r259g | null | 1427724700 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atlantajerk | null | [Here.](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/l8o16/fuckin_steve/c2qp1f5) | null | 0 | 1318479404 | False | 0 | c2r2xgc | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2xgc | t1_c2r2a1h | null | 1427724702 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lensfocus | null | ++Dennis | null | 0 | 1318479438 | False | 0 | c2r2xmd | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2xmd | t3_laci4 | null | 1427724705 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dasweb | null | He truly did create the foundation for our building blocks. | null | 0 | 1318479559 | False | 0 | c2r2y7u | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2y7u | t1_c2r2vb8 | null | 1427724712 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sogod | null | Being an ex-Amazonian myself (left 2010), I always got the impression there were some really good teams and a lot of really bad teams. But, even on teams that seemed really bad, you'd find people that really liked it. It just fit what they wanted I guess... or maybe they were just new-college grads and didn't know th... | null | 0 | 1318479756 | False | 0 | c2r2z59 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r2z59 | t1_c2qxtzb | null | 1427724724 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freespace | null | Good bye Mr. Ritchie, you were to our profession as Hippocrates was to medicine. | null | 0 | 1318479810 | False | 0 | c2r2zfk | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r2zfk | t3_laci4 | null | 1427724728 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nluqo | null | Good point... | null | 0 | 1318479866 | False | 0 | c2r2zou | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r2zou | t1_c2r249z | null | 1427724731 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | senoadiw | null | [A bit further down](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/l8o16/fuckin_steve/c2qpozq).
> Neckbeards will only shed tears when Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie die.
RIP | null | 0 | 1318479938 | False | 0 | c2r3010 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r3010 | t1_c2r2xgc | null | 1427724735 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318480039 | False | 0 | c2r30i1 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r30i1 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724742 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nhnifong | null | We could use Esperanto! | null | 0 | 1318480117 | False | 0 | c2r30vh | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r30vh | t1_c2qvakq | null | 1427724746 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fruitloop | null | A true giant whose shoulders almost EVERYONE of today is still standing. He will be remembered, for sure. | null | 0 | 1318480179 | False | 0 | c2r315m | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r315m | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724750 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | **Edit: I realized later that this is a big-old "WHOOSH". bongwhacker is probably just making a joke about VB coders. Regardless, some might find this comment helpful.**
There's an error in my code above, but let's get to that later.
When you're writing code in VB.Net you write something like this:
public sub ... | null | 0 | 1318480204 | True | 0 | c2r319q | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r319q | t1_c2r2tm4 | null | 1427724752 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoisyZenMaster | null | I still have the tattered remains of my first copy of K&R somewhere. I learned C and GL (before it was OpenGL) at the same time while working at SGI, back when there was an SGI.
I moved onto Stroustrup after that, and those two books provided the groundwork for my career, even to this day.
RIP | null | 0 | 1318480235 | False | 0 | c2r31f3 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r31f3 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724753 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | newyawker | null | The world has lost a great mind. | null | 0 | 1318480268 | False | 0 | c2r31ld | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r31ld | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724756 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nhnifong | null | from __future__ import braces | null | 0 | 1318480376 | False | 0 | c2r323x | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r323x | t1_c2qnoyu | null | 1427724763 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dieselnut | null | free(dmr);
:( | null | 0 | 1318480494 | False | 0 | c2r32no | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r32no | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724770 | 86 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meadhikari | null | "Some seem to think"
seeing the point it seems many seem to think | null | 0 | 1318480509 | False | 0 | c2r32q3 | t3_l8sk8 | null | t1_c2r32q3 | t1_c2qpe7y | null | 1427724772 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nhnifong | null | Too bad Google Scetchup 8 still uses Ruby 1.85. Just try creating 10000 cubes and it will pinwheel for days. | null | 0 | 1318480592 | False | 0 | c2r333f | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r333f | t1_c2qv3hh | null | 1427724777 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318480666 | False | 0 | c2r33h0 | t3_lafdc | null | t1_c2r33h0 | t3_lafdc | null | 1427724781 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PstScrpt | null | All that stuff's optional in XML, too. I've used XML for all sorts of things for the last nine years, and I first used a schema a couple weeks ago. | null | 0 | 1318480858 | False | 0 | c2r34cu | t3_l9v6k | null | t1_c2r34cu | t1_c2qzn56 | null | 1427724794 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bedlinen | null | Not really. I was pointing out that he was easily as influential as Steve Jobs without breaking a sweat, since everyone seems to glorify Steve Jobs' contributions. I do appreciate what Steve Jobs has done, but I personally believe Dennis Ritchie was more influential. I wanted to point out the gravity of his achievem... | null | 0 | 1318480917 | False | 0 | c2r34nd | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r34nd | t1_c2r2nw4 | null | 1427724797 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stesch | null | My parents bought me "The C Programming Language" to my birthday in the 1980ies. I will never forget.
| null | 0 | 1318481053 | False | 0 | c2r35aw | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r35aw | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724806 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bhdz | null | I don't care about Jobs that much but these news... this brake my heart really. The patriarchs are going away :-/ | null | 0 | 1318481058 | False | 0 | c2r35bk | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r35bk | t3_laci4 | null | 1427724806 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j2kent | null | main() {
while (1) { printf("RIP Dennis, you will be missed."); }} | null | 0 | 1318481105 | False | 0 | c2r35jt | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r35jt | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724809 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ImWittyNoSrsly | null | Wozniak was the real genius there, that man did things with a processor that shouldn't have even been possible.
All Steve jobs did was screw Wozniak and then ride him to money. | null | 0 | 1318481266 | False | 0 | c2r369f | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r369f | t1_c2r2f4s | null | 1427724817 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | true that. That thought crossed my mind as well "I should use original c-style comments here.... bah! no one uses those for one-line comments anymore!"
I stand corrected :-D | null | 0 | 1318481368 | False | 0 | c2r36q9 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r36q9 | t1_c2r2wj9 | null | 1427724824 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318481430 | False | 0 | c2r370c | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r370c | t1_c2r20ik | null | 1427724828 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BendingUnit10110 | null | or maybe you're just hiring the wrong ones because you're not very good at it. | null | 0 | 1318481551 | False | 0 | c2r37hl | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r37hl | t1_c2qzdj6 | null | 1427724833 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318481775 | False | 0 | c2r38g0 | t3_la9zy | null | t1_c2r38g0 | t3_la9zy | null | 1427724846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bedlinen | null | Would Wozniak have pushed for his creations to reach a wide audience? I don't think he has much of a business-focused mindset. I know it sucks but a lot of the products and advancement we enjoy is due to the actions of business-minded people taking advantage of people like Wozniak. Most programmers I know (including m... | null | 0 | 1318482014 | False | 0 | c2r39j5 | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r39j5 | t1_c2r369f | null | 1427724860 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | enry_straker | null | So he started a few successful organizations. The US is replete with successful serial entrepreneurs.
But one can't compare Dennis who laid the foundation of almost all mainstream languages with Steve Jobs. That's like comparing Apples to C ( if you'll forgive the pun ) | null | 0 | 1318482080 | False | 0 | c2r39ta | t3_laci4 | null | t1_c2r39ta | t1_c2r2unz | null | 1427724864 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lilrobbie | null | Goodbye Dennis. You were a great influence. Except maybe that 'creat' function. | null | 0 | 1318482263 | False | 0 | c2r3ana | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3ana | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724875 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phab3k | null | printf("Goodbye world.\n"); | null | 0 | 1318482272 | False | 0 | c2r3aod | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3aod | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724875 | 377 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RandomNumberHere | null | Raising a glass to the man. Without him I wouldn't have my career. | null | 0 | 1318482374 | False | 0 | c2r3b4n | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3b4n | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724882 | 77 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | krawcrates | null | agreed! great work OP! | null | 0 | 1318482403 | False | 0 | c2r3b95 | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2r3b95 | t1_c2qxx1b | null | 1427724883 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GenTiradentes | null | I never thought a bit of code could ever make me feel something. | null | 0 | 1318482451 | False | 0 | c2r3bhh | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r3bhh | t3_laf4o | null | 1427724885 | 56 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | A couple of minor points:
If you didn't want to just show different language features, you could simplify the example class a bit:
class Point {
final x, y;
Point(this.x, this.y);
distanceTo(Point other) {
var dx = x - other.x;
var dy = y - other.y;
return Math.sqrt(dx * ... | null | 0 | 1318482517 | False | 0 | c2r3br4 | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r3br4 | t3_la9ma | null | 1427724889 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | No eval. When the mirrors system is in place you may be able to do some of the dynamic creation that eval gives you, but I think Gilad's goal is to have it be more structured than what bare eval lets you do. | null | 0 | 1318482721 | False | 0 | c2r3clu | t3_l9mau | null | t1_c2r3clu | t1_c2r2mj6 | null | 1427724900 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrange | null | It makes it less likely that you'll be in a chatroom with the kind of people who sit around in a chatroom all day. | null | 0 | 1318482886 | False | 0 | c2r3db1 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3db1 | t1_c2qvqnu | null | 1427724909 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scriptsvcs | null | We've lost a man who has influenced all of us deeply, but his spirit will live on through his work, and more importantly, his philosophy. Out of the morass that was DEC and IBM, and heavily influenced from the ideas behind Multics came a method for easily building complex systems that ran at near-assembly speeds, yet ... | null | 0 | 1318483000 | False | 0 | c2r3drz | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3drz | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724916 | 125 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | >as others have argued, perhaps that means we should just standardize on a bytecode to run on a virtual machine inside of the browser and let any language that can compile into that bytecode
Thats not the intended purpose of Dart. Dart is trying to capitalize on the success of the V8 Javascript compiler which can c... | null | 0 | 1318483063 | True | 0 | c2r3e1j | t3_l9v2n | null | t1_c2r3e1j | t1_c2r1nyr | null | 1427724920 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cybercobra | null | I'd be interested to see the one-liner implementing APL (that isn't just a call to an eval() function). | null | 0 | 1318483113 | False | 0 | c2r3e97 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3e97 | t1_c2qqndw | null | 1427724922 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | muellkonto | null | Please forgive the tone, but:
"Who died?"
"He's the guy who made the career of that other guy's recent death, the one the whole world is talking about, possible."
:'( | null | 0 | 1318483133 | False | 0 | c2r3ear | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3ear | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724922 | 145 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fatbunyip | null | I don't think it would be possible for them to have it open. Search is core to their business (the ads and stuff) and opening it up would likely lead to every spammer and SEO "expert" trying to game the system.
Sure, there's probably lot's of people having legitimate uses for it, but I think that the trouble of keepin... | null | 0 | 1318483206 | False | 0 | c2r3ems | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3ems | t1_c2r0xz5 | null | 1427724928 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | buffer0verflow | null | K&R was my bible. RIP dmr! | null | 0 | 1318483282 | False | 0 | c2r3exq | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3exq | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724933 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318483339 | False | 0 | c2r3f6q | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3f6q | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724935 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mvonballmo | null | > most of us enjoy it without trying to reduce it down to a few sentences.
tl;drs are for the ADD-afflicted, not for the pipe-smoking connoisseurs of the Internet.
Don't get me wrong, I read the bloody thing, but I thought it was too repetitive and far too long and also too repetitive. Not to mention long. And som... | null | 0 | 1318483367 | False | 0 | c2r3fbd | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3fbd | t1_c2r12rq | null | 1427724942 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SciK | null | Thanks. :) | null | 0 | 1318483635 | False | 0 | c2r3gex | t3_l7979 | null | t1_c2r3gex | t1_c2qzuu4 | null | 1427724951 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | True. Though I'd note that it _will_ be deterministic for those inputs that are non-ambiguous. E.g. in your typical ambiguous algebra grammar, "(a+b)+c" will parse deterministically. | null | 0 | 1318483799 | False | 0 | c2r3h2k | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3h2k | t1_c2qro3r | null | 1427724959 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | No. | null | 0 | 1318483935 | False | 0 | c2r3hn3 | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r3hn3 | t3_la9ma | null | 1427724967 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i_speak_the_truf | null | This is one of the things that really strikes me. The public made such a big deal about Steve Jobs' contribution to computing, but most will never realize Dennis Ritchie helped make it all possible. Without his contributions to C and Unix, who knows where computing would be today. | null | 0 | 1318483958 | False | 0 | c2r3hq7 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3hq7 | t1_c2r3ear | null | 1427724969 | 102 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | I think that's probably for the best. There might be some valid uses for eval, but I'm sure there will always be a better way to do it in Dart. The only place I can think of where you absolutely need eval, would be to run code samples ("Try Dart in your browser!"), but then you can send the code to the server, compile ... | null | 0 | 1318483984 | False | 0 | c2r3htw | t3_l9mau | null | t1_c2r3htw | t1_c2r3clu | null | 1427724968 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DefinitelyHittinOnYa | null | My first copy of K&RC (about 16 years old) http://imgur.com/DdN2X Funny you should mention SGI - I still have a working O2 running 6.5. I don't boot it up all the time now but it does work :) | null | 0 | 1318484001 | False | 0 | c2r3hvq | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3hvq | t1_c2r31f3 | null | 1427724969 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | Maybe you should try actually using Go before making such claims. | null | 0 | 1318484064 | False | 0 | c2r3i4q | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3i4q | t1_c2qs0ha | null | 1427724973 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrsexybadman | null | I just wish somebody would write a new one and post it in here. | null | 0 | 1318484109 | False | 0 | c2r3ia4 | t3_l9v2n | null | t1_c2r3ia4 | t3_l9v2n | null | 1427724975 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | Have you actually written any significant piece of Go code? Everyone I know who has doesn't see why generics is such a big deal.
Features are not interchangeable across languages, and they are not as useful/necessary in every language. | null | 0 | 1318484122 | False | 0 | c2r3ick | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3ick | t1_c2qsu7c | null | 1427724976 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robotfarts | null | > so I didn't view it as excessive
Holy shit!
> - OOP
This is reasonable
> - .NET Framework
> - Experience with any .NET language in a production environment
> - Microsoft Visual Studio
> - T-SQL knowledge
> - SQL Server 2008 administration
> - .NET Web Services
> - .NET Web Applications
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True | aaronla | null | Perhaps it would help if you would describe what you mean by "nondeterminism". I think both umop and myself mean "an inevitable consequence of the inputs". That is, if I provide some sentence to the parser, such as "a+b+c", and it responds "ambiguous, cannot parse", then the next time I provide that same sentence, I wi... | null | 0 | 1318484155 | False | 0 | c2r3ihe | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3ihe | t1_c2r15dd | null | 1427724977 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jakdak | null | Rest in peace, "R" | null | 0 | 1318484169 | False | 0 | c2r3ija | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3ija | t3_la9wn | null | 1427724977 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | > rather that it lent itself to being easy enough to use that poor programmers could still cobble together a functional program.
This is actually a very big problem with Python. | null | 0 | 1318484278 | False | 0 | c2r3iz4 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3iz4 | t1_c2qt8jk | null | 1427724984 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | *(I just realised. I am not claiming the link as my Easter Egg, just found while googling for a decent image.)* | null | 0 | 1318484449 | False | 0 | c2r3jn5 | t3_lafj0 | null | t1_c2r3jn5 | t3_lafj0 | null | 1427724993 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | There is a custom search engine for that: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search | null | 0 | 1318484458 | False | 0 | c2r3jol | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3jol | t1_c2qqahs | null | 1427724993 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlitzTech | null | My gut reaction was to oppose that view, but after a split second I realized that one of the primary goals of Python was to be easily learnable - and suddenly your comment makes complete sense. It seems Python has managed to avoid the gross disdain PHP has garnered for itself.
Can you point to anywhere/anything in par... | null | 0 | 1318484527 | False | 0 | c2r3jxs | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3jxs | t1_c2r3iz4 | null | 1427724996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | Any kind of text munging, splicing, dicing... Perl is extremely handy and concise.
But of course the downside of that concise thing is , if you don't take care to document your code, you may be left scratching your head a couple weeks later.
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True | icheishvili | null | The 6 most emotional lines of C I have ever read. | null | 0 | 1318484533 | False | 0 | c2r3jzn | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r3jzn | t3_laf4o | null | 1427724997 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >no int main(void)
>no return statement
No credit! | null | 0 | 1318484547 | False | 0 | c2r3k1v | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3k1v | t1_c2r35jt | null | 1427724997 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | For people who have used things like awk, grep and shell scripting, perl is a no-brainer.
If you haven't used such tools ever, perl might look a bit odd. | null | 0 | 1318484699 | False | 0 | c2r3km0 | t3_l9ja4 | null | t1_c2r3km0 | t1_c2qyyj5 | null | 1427725005 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sharkeyzoic | null | There's a big gap in your thinking between "multi-million" and "a few grand".
But anyway. I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and I'm glad you're happy where you are too. | null | 0 | 1318484824 | False | 0 | c2r3l2b | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2r3l2b | t1_c2qvvaz | null | 1427725011 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrupac | null | Most compilers make ```int``` a default return type. Also main returns 0 by default too. However, what will not work is the lack of an #include. | null | 0 | 1318484872 | False | 0 | c2r3l8j | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3l8j | t1_c2r3k1v | null | 1427725014 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | Most third party python libs are a horrible mess (and some of the stdlib too), specially api-wise, but this is in part due to Python's horribly over-convoluted object model (metaclasses... wtf were they thinking?!).
Beyond that, there are few python programs that are not awful, specially past a certain size.
But wors... | null | 0 | 1318484890 | False | 0 | c2r3lau | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3lau | t1_c2r3jxs | null | 1427725015 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | Solving the 'problems of JavaScript' is the wrong way to frame the problem. The ECMA has that job.
What tool developers can do is create the very best tool for their user base. And there is a lot to like in Dart. | null | 0 | 1318484986 | False | 0 | c2r3lor | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r3lor | t3_la9ma | null | 1427725019 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | Worst bond girl ever. | null | 0 | 1318485110 | False | 0 | c2r3m5h | t3_la9zy | null | t1_c2r3m5h | t3_la9zy | null | 1427725026 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DefinitelyHittinOnYa | null | Well, fwiw, heaven can finally get a proper operating system. OS/360 was apparently not cutting it for dmr to be taken away from us. | null | 0 | 1318485374 | False | 0 | c2r3n56 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3n56 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427725039 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recoil | null | You should try out the [readability bookmarklets](http://readability.com/bookmarklets). | null | 0 | 1318485572 | False | 0 | c2r3ntu | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3ntu | t1_c2r0odi | null | 1427725048 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thejasper | null | *couch* Pascal's triangle *couch* | null | 0 | 1318485593 | False | 0 | c2r3nwi | t3_lai1b | null | t1_c2r3nwi | t3_lai1b | null | 1427725049 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirakun | null | No, but I have written enough C++ to not see how you can write type-safe containers in Go.
If you take a look at the "special" function `append`, you'll see that even the authors of Go admit there is a need for generic. FYI, the signature of `append` is
func append(slice []T, elements...T) {}T
where `T` is some... | null | 0 | 1318485608 | True | 0 | c2r3nyb | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3nyb | t1_c2r3ick | null | 1427725049 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mortinho | null | >In C, the program to print "hello, world'' is
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> main()
> {
> printf("hello, world\n");
> }
RITCHIE, BRIAN. *The C Programming Language*. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988. | null | 0 | 1318485826 | False | 0 | c2r3ope | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3ope | t1_c2r3k1v | null | 1427725059 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoisyZenMaster | null | I picked [my copy](http://imgur.com/fl3M2) 27 years ago. Now that I look at it - it's not as tattered as I remember. Still in pretty good shape.
I had an O2 at home when I was in grad school. It wrote all of the code and all of the text (LaTex) for my Master's Thesis on it. SGI was my first real job in the computer wo... | null | 0 | 1318485835 | False | 0 | c2r3oq9 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3oq9 | t1_c2r3hvq | null | 1427725060 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | *Not* hiring them is more like it. I don't automatically reject people based on their degree (hell, mine is in English), but no CS major has ever made the cut.
It's not that they don't know how to program well, it's that they usually suck at hacking... and hacking is probably 75% of a developer's job. It doesn't m... | null | 0 | 1318485850 | False | 0 | c2r3os5 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3os5 | t1_c2r37hl | null | 1427725060 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pleaseavoidcaps | null | Needs more punctuation, though. | null | 0 | 1318485865 | False | 0 | c2r3ouc | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r3ouc | t1_c2r3bhh | null | 1427725061 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | poo_22 | null | Surprisingly this is the only comment here that made me very sad. | null | 0 | 1318485937 | False | 0 | c2r3p3g | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3p3g | t1_c2r3aod | null | 1427725064 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlitzTech | null | Don't forget the [Dunning-Kruger effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect), which correlates nicely with Kernighan's Law.
I don't think metaclasses are a language flaw, however - simply that the availability of such a tool draws people to use it because it makes them feel like they're improvi... | null | 0 | 1318485960 | False | 0 | c2r3p5t | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3p5t | t1_c2r3lau | null | 1427725065 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wot-teh-phuck | null | RIP good sir; I can't imagine where this computing world would have been without your contribution. :`( | null | 0 | 1318485962 | False | 0 | c2r3p65 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3p65 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427725065 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lollan | null | I'll check it out fore sure. Thanks | null | 0 | 1318486016 | False | 0 | c2r3pcp | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r3pcp | t1_c2r1ts8 | null | 1427725068 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pdewacht | null | You're looking for intptr_t. | null | 0 | 1318486037 | False | 0 | c2r3pg2 | t3_l9goy | null | t1_c2r3pg2 | t1_c2r1662 | null | 1427725068 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wbkang | null | That works too. The compiler will assume the default type int printf() and as long as you supply a standard library during the link time, the program will run fine, I think. | null | 0 | 1318486041 | False | 0 | c2r3pgi | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3pgi | t1_c2r3l8j | null | 1427725068 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMaskedHamster | null | *Somewhere* here on reddit, in some location I can't find now, someone recently made a joke about certain geeks who were not moved by Steve Jobs death and would only care if K&R died.
...it was such a timely comment. | null | 0 | 1318486181 | False | 0 | c2r3pxz | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3pxz | t3_la9wn | null | 1427725075 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DefinitelyHittinOnYa | null | Yea, I miss the world of SGIs as well. Working through school, I admined a couple of Origin servers (2000,3000). Your copy is only slightly younger than I am :O | null | 0 | 1318486184 | False | 0 | c2r3pyc | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3pyc | t1_c2r3oq9 | null | 1427725075 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eddsteel | null | In their defence, they didn't know Ritchie's death was imminent. Jobs' death *is* a big deal, too. That said I don't expect Ritchie will get half the eulogising Jobs did, despite deserving more, and that makes me very sad. | null | 0 | 1318486221 | False | 0 | c2r3q2i | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r3q2i | t1_c2r3hq7 | null | 1427725077 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318486225 | False | 0 | c2r3q2u | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r3q2u | t1_c2qp8nl | null | 1427725077 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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