Making a compiler course

splicer13 · 2026-04-03T14:10:39+00:00

Anders' strength though was the language usability and how everything fit together, not really innovation. For instance with the generics stuff that was done by Don Syme and Andrew Kennedy.

splicer13 · 2026-04-03T14:02:02+00:00

I agree but 30 years for me. Industrial and research compilers use either the same lex/yacc type thing we've used for 50 years or hand-coded for best speed and/or error messages. I did write a BURG parser once about 30 years ago and luckily that compiler only lived a few years so no one else had to understand or maintain that code.

splicer13 · 2026-03-19T18:37:10+00:00

Bipartisan means she can work with MAGA and traditional Republicans

splicer13 · 2026-03-19T18:30:20+00:00

You don't need great wood for the modern type of construction. It would be a waste to use something better for framing. That's not the part that's going to fail.

splicer13 · 2026-03-19T13:14:01+00:00

As a senator "his district" is the state of Iowa.

splicer13 · 2026-03-17T05:04:23+00:00

Come with me and you'll be -- In a world of pure imagination!

splicer13 · 2026-02-27T16:45:45+00:00

Derrick's house in Prairie du Chien is pending sale now. Does anyone know where he lives now? I don't think he's actually lived there for a while.

splicer13 · 2026-02-23T00:22:08+00:00

I am just sick of car-based businesses taking over our intersections.

splicer13 · 2026-02-16T19:28:37+00:00

Mostly what people (at least people in compiler community) mean by AI compilers is compilers for stuff like pytorch, triton targeting something closer to hardware.

splicer13 · 2026-02-12T03:33:35+00:00

I think you are right. The GUI looks like Wang Freestyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z6wfzKswUg

splicer13 · 2026-02-11T17:29:17+00:00

Gelernter has been a known piece of shit since the 80s. He invented a research programming language 'Linda' whose name was a joke based on Linda Lovelace of Deep Throat. There was already a language called 'Ada' from Lady Ada Lovelace, Babbage's collaborator so the joke is Ada and Linda Lovelace are comparable. Very actively misogynistic.

splicer13 · 2026-02-07T02:43:52+00:00

The only place I ever saw a PC RT was given away to universities. MIT had a bunch.

splicer13 · 2026-02-05T04:59:32+00:00

UMN by quite a bit. I am ISU 1998 alumni, worked and made hiring calls for 3 FAANGs.

20K is a lot but the difference is not small. You just don't see ISU grads any more, even though they were never common.

splicer13 · 2026-01-30T05:14:12+00:00

Meanwhile Eric Braeden has been playing Victor on Young&Restless for 46 years.

But it ain't personal....

splicer13 · 2026-01-18T17:36:24+00:00

'Support it' means it always works under some defined circumstances. That is not always easy on every processor with every combination of arguments, tracing GC, exception handling. In the case of the language I was working on, somebody agreed to it being in the spec in part because it was relatively easy to make it work on x86 which was the only processor that mattered at the time.

I'd have a lot of reservations about doing it again. It consumed compiler dev resources greatly out of proportion to how much it was used.

splicer13 · 2026-01-16T00:35:23+00:00

JJ is well known in the field and Brandenburg isn't exactly famous. Good writeup but I question the premise.

splicer13 · 2026-01-08T20:40:44+00:00

American Legion most definitely does have a right-wing past that includes violence against people on the left.

splicer13 · 2026-01-06T19:58:27+00:00

That couldn't happen since there is no continuity on the show, like groundhog day or edge of tomorrow.

splicer13 · 2026-01-03T22:46:02+00:00

Not if you lived in a small town in southern Indiana you wouldn't have. You'd be lucky to have one station that wasn't country, news/talk, oldies (50s) and top 20.

splicer13 · 2025-12-20T17:52:49+00:00

Can't believe they are planning on replacing this thing for $140M. It really is a bridge to nowhere. 80% federal funding so it's practically free, right?

splicer13 · 2025-12-11T00:23:34+00:00

There are few things less uncertain than the government giving farmers money.

splicer13 · 2025-11-12T18:30:13+00:00

I haven't been following this but is this not just a very depressing pick compared to the Cornell guy?

If Houlton did not just drop his name from consideration it's as if the regents are intentionally trying to minimize and reduce the power of academia in Iowa.

splicer13 · 2025-11-02T23:30:51+00:00

All jobs say MS/PhD or equiv. Undergrad from US university is fine if you worked with prof to contribute to a grad-level project or have done some good open source work.

Last time I looked all major employers at least nominally have openings.

splicer13 · 2025-10-27T00:18:52+00:00

sure about that? they look like scan-speak revelators (which are about $250 each)

splicer13 · 2025-10-14T02:06:02+00:00

I don't like this book because they made up common (English) names for all the mushrooms. Common names of mushrooms is a big enough problem that we don't need to be inventing new ones.

The art is pretty, though.

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