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David J. Atkinson
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Tom Forsyth · 6d
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 ne...
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@nprofile1q... 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 optimizations. My colleague did something similar with an optimizing compiler that basically rewrote the source code (joke was it turned other people’s code into something he would have written). Bottom line: there are good technical and creative reasons to work with customized programming languages.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 1w
Have you been asked by a medical provider recently for consent to have an "AI" scribe record your visit? Us, too. And we have **thoughts** https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/why-you-should-refuse...
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@nprofile1q... Yes. I think this is becoming quite common. Medical groups are providing this service through enterprise-wide medical information systems. I was grateful to be asked. I’ll just add that doctors do not like lectures from patients.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 1w
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aeva · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Nothing simple about it, but I bet it is far simpler than the graphic and other s/w you’ve done! But you also have dev environments, and code libraries and other accoutrement. We had some, but primitive in comparison. Maybe simple/difficult balances out. I did that work about 40 years ago. In retrospect , it feels a bit like having built a log cabin out on the prairie with hand tools.
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aeva · 2w
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aeva · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Cross-compilation. It is not too difficult to do this in LISP. I wager you can probably find one that works great for whatever your target language may be. My colleague and I wrote one that first cross-compiled to pseudocode, from their, we could easily generate the software in a couple of other languages that projects required, main C and variants.
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aeva · 2w
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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) · 4w
OK, I've been silent for a while because ... research. My wife's gonna kill me if I write another book, but I realized she's not on Mastodon, so let's keep this our little secret, eh? My question: doe...
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@nprofile1q... It’s an idea hiding in plain sight, not that it is obvious but the deduction is straight forward. Personally, I believe it goes a bit deeper. Is this the nature of social development since time immemorial? What are the counter examples? Is this enclose/extract strategy a natural aspect of social association? What evolutionary advantage does it confer?