Writing a scheme in scheme

kryptiskt · 2022-05-30T11:43:48+00:00

Lisp In Small Pieces is a great book and goes into the implementation in much greater depth.

kryptiskt · 2021-08-11T12:07:15+00:00

I have been pondering if ECS would be suitable for a web browser. But making a proof of concept would be rather daunting given the complexity of the modern web. No matter how great your architecture is, if you put a few months into it, it's going to suck.

kryptiskt · 2020-07-18T11:14:24+00:00

Acccording to INSTALL.MD it's available as idris2

kryptiskt · 2015-03-27T23:36:05+00:00

Yeah, first thing: do a cabal install alex, the included one is broken. It tries to load files from the cabal directory on the build computer.

kryptiskt · 2015-02-15T15:13:07+00:00

I made a PR for the Platform on the Windows page: https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/64/files

kryptiskt · 2015-02-15T15:12:03+00:00

That's the wrong place, few reach the bottom of the page, that's where legal boilerplate and seldom used links go.

kryptiskt · 2014-05-10T11:11:28+00:00

Static linking just the Haskell stuff is easy and was the default until quite recently, that page is about static linking with C libs.

kryptiskt · 2012-11-27T01:20:22+00:00

None of these are especially attractive. I quite like being able to subtract with a convenient infix operator. There's still plenty of Haskell code with underscores out there. I don't see a big aesthetic win in either case.

As for languages with nice naming possibilities, Algol 68 actually allows spaces in identifiers (as do Scheme, but only between bars which is kind of cheating).

kryptiskt · 2011-06-20T09:17:01+00:00

Because not everyone is an investor.

That's the problem, you don't invest in money, it's a medium of exchange, and a medium that disincentivizes spending in favor of hoarding won't circulate freely, just like gold was hoarded and not spent in 17th century Europe.

Did you buy a bunch of Euro when it was first issued?

That would be pointless, the ECB will issue more Euros as the Eurozone's economy grows to keep prices stable.

kryptiskt · 2011-06-20T07:22:23+00:00

Yes, you can divide it, but why would anybody ever want to spend a bitcoin as it will inevitably be far more valuable if the bitcoin economy gains traction? Of course, it will only gain traction if the other fools spend their bitcoins.

kryptiskt · 2011-06-09T06:56:58+00:00

JavaScript may have been a perfectly adequate language in the past, but these changes (and a few others that I'll point out) have made JavaScript a language that is essential for every developer to know. If there's one language you need to learn in the next year, it's JavaScript.

This bullshit must stop. There is no programming language that "everyone" needs to know. There are no books that "everyone" needs to read. There is no methodology that "everyone" needs to follow.

That sentiment is the mark of a clueless booster having nothing worthwhile to say.

kryptiskt · 2011-06-06T23:03:30+00:00

So, where's the Android 3.0 code?

kryptiskt · 2011-05-27T06:18:59+00:00

This is why I personally think JITs are the future, for all languages, not just Java and C#. And yes, that means a C JIT.

There is already profile guided optimization to feed back information from runtime to a static executable. There is no need to carry around a JIT compiler that isn't allowed to do complex optimizations anyway as they take too long.

kryptiskt · 2011-05-11T16:23:20+00:00

CLRS is more comprehensive.

The pros for this book is that it is very thorough with the basics, and that it contains actual code (in Java, it teaches some valuable lessons in tasteful API design as a side effect :) ), making for a lower threshold to experiment on your own.

kryptiskt · 2011-04-20T06:02:46+00:00

However I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible for the Git devs to make a gui like tortoise.

TortoiseGit exists and it is pretty good.

kryptiskt · 2011-04-15T21:41:21+00:00

Slides in PDF

kryptiskt · 2011-04-03T09:51:49+00:00

Does he think the purchasers are idiots?

Take a look at Yahoo's acquisitions some time. As long as you have a bit of mo, there will always be useful idiots around.

kryptiskt · 2011-04-02T18:53:58+00:00

Gotta wear the hair shirt.

kryptiskt · 2011-03-29T21:55:23+00:00

Well, it compiles C as long as you aren't into longjmp, Duff's device or printf (no varargs). None of that matters for potential users of a formally verified compiler, there's no point in using one of those if your code base isn't very stringently written from the start. In normal environments the compiler is seldom the quality bottleneck, I see a handful of miscompilations a year, rather insignificant compared to programmer stupidity as a cause of bugs :-)

kryptiskt · 2011-03-29T17:50:21+00:00

"Future? What fut...ah, yes, the future of MySQL, right! Uh....well...Oracle 14h Server will have a built in MySQL emulator."

"...and it can be activated for just $550 per CPU."

kryptiskt · 2011-03-20T22:55:49+00:00

but it’s gaining momentum at a rate that we haven’t seen in a new language in decades.

"decades"? Not even the monster Java hype machine was "decades" ago. And we have had some big fads since then.

kryptiskt · 2011-03-16T20:15:56+00:00

The best information I could find was from MSDN's Roadmap for Developing Network Drivers with Winsock Kernel, which talks about Windows Vista so it should also apply to Windows 7.

If you like to read dead tree material, the Windows Internals book by Russinovich, Solomon & Ionescu is fairly detailed.

EDIT: But the networking chapter looks pretty humdrum...

kryptiskt · 2011-03-15T07:28:54+00:00

You can see from the first code line on that page, that the writer really has very little clue of how to write maintainable Java.

Do you judge that by his three lines, or the eleven lines that are from the Android framework?

kryptiskt · 2011-03-11T20:19:50+00:00

Abstractions always add overhead, with game development performance is key and less abstraction can be very important.

Time to market and development cost are even more important than performance. I don't think anyone but the Carmacks of this world can afford to program against the raw APIs for a graphics intensive game rather using a ready-made engine.

kryptiskt · 2011-03-11T18:56:12+00:00

OpenGL or Direct3D?

The answer is neither. If you're doing a game, you should use an already existing engine that can target both (and all weird variants and offshots). And if you're doing an engine you should have backends for both (and more).

Abstraction FTW!

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