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New comment by olzd in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

olzd — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:48:37 +0000

Are you aware this is satire?

New comment by olzd in "Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major languages in 2021"

olzd — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:27:29 +0000

Probably Brzozowski’s derivative of regular expressions, e.g https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf

New comment by olzd in "Beating C with Dyalog APL"

olzd — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:40:38 +0000

How nice of you to copy/paste my reddit comment!

New comment by olzd in "Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With"

olzd — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:55:49 +0000

You type 'proc' and let the editor autocomplete that for you: this is a long solved issue.

New comment by olzd in "Hy"

olzd — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:19:49 +0000

I like the parens for the structured editing they allow. Also, you don't need parens to be homoiconic.

New comment by olzd in "Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub"

olzd — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 18:30:53 +0000

The -O3 switch removes a recursive call, among other things (https://godbolt.org/z/oS3Cju).

New comment by olzd in "The Problem With APLs"

olzd — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:03:22 +0000

> When I get a request for something slightly different, I almost have to start from scratch.

You don't really start from scratch though (at least I don't): most of the time you can reuse idioms with minimal adaptation.

New comment by olzd in "The Problem With APLs"

olzd — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:27:20 +0000

I disagree: it's not that hard to gradually get to a solution via the REPL.

New comment by olzd in "Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you"

olzd — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:37:57 +0000

Actually there is: be a EU resident. It's even explicitely stated there.

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 07:50:22 +0000

> Reading and understanding the Idris proof is actually more work than understanding the untyped Python version, therefore it's actually harder to say whether it's correct or not in a semantic sense.

But you don't have to write a proof to sort a list in Idris. So you're not being honest with your comparison.

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:31:25 +0000

If only people could properly argument...

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:50:57 +0000

Latest release is June 28, 2018. SBCL REPL kinda sucks by itself but nobody uses it that way.

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:46:40 +0000

I hope you realize the Idris code actually prove that the list will be correctly sorted, unlike your python code.

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:30:36 +0000

Yeah, you managed to link a comment with some code (although I agree it looks useless)... I expected a github link to some lib relying on undocumented macros.

> I don't know what's the worst. That you can't help it or that you won't ever recognize you have a problem.

Anyone can write bad code. Lisp certainly makes it easier, I won't deny it. And no, I don't have a problem, thank you.

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:42:39 +0000

Alright, do you have an actual example to show?

New comment by olzd in "The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016)"

olzd — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:33:54 +0000

Come on. A lack of tests or documentation isn't specific to Lisp. TBH, I'd rather use a well-designed DSL than a shitty API.

New comment by olzd in "Hyper 2, Electron based terminal"

olzd — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:21:44 +0000

So? If you want a lightweight app, both JavaFX and Electron are bad.

New comment by olzd in "F* – An ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification"

olzd — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:46:20 +0000

Idris certainly is nice but I doubt anyone uses it for real stuff.