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Tom Forsyth · 1w
It is spooky how much nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpu3ryltaaqjym9gj5fpcv623edtfh2vuvrtcd8pz75p6nlyt0nrqwf22w0 and I agree on so many many things. So in lieu of me making a vi...
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Fabian talked some about how languages are fundamentally tools, and they're all flawed, and no one language will solve all problems. And I absolutely agree. Some people spend a lot of time creating new languages, and I'm just not sure it's productive.
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Tom Forsyth · 1w
I can't find it in the video, but there was a question about how far down the stack you need to know. I mean Fabian and I like to know all the way down to the metal. But that's because we're strange. Most people do not - it's absolutely not necessary to get stuff done.
David J. Atkinson · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqykddq7nmfd8cd0hupl8fnsmmuhtg55zusm6de4fjecmrhsx4x97qx8hm63 There is a balance. I often used both compile-time and run-time macros to provide higher level constructs — a mini-language — that matched my problem domain and let me control some o...
✧✦Catherine✦✧ · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqykddq7nmfd8cd0hupl8fnsmmuhtg55zusm6de4fjecmrhsx4x97qx8hm63 I think there are a few different schools of PL design that sometimes have little to no intersection: the researchers (we want to test this one cool concept, but it requires the rest of...