Warm greetings to my fellow programmers and lovers of elegant simplicity. I
wrote the sbase cal program in Pascal for fun, learning, experimentation. I
have also written it in Rust and Ada, for the same reasons.
I recently started re-learning Pascal (which I learned in high school) using
Free
Дана 24/06/21 10:45AM, Greg Reagle написа:
> Rust also has some good safety and ease-of-use features. It is very
> big and complex with a lot of features (compared to C).
Previous thread, now necroed:
https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2104/34265.html
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Rust sucks. It was made by Big Tech (M
Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:53:45PM +0200 schrieb Страхиња Радић:
> Given that, why complicate code by introducing a separate, superfluous,
> type?
Let me offer a counterpoint: Expressiveness. If I make a function return
a bool, then everyone from the world's worst junior dev to Ken Thompson
himsel
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:14:19 +0200
Markus Wichmann wrote:
> Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:53:45PM +0200 schrieb Страхиња Радић:
> > Given that, why complicate code by introducing a separate, superfluous,
> > type?
>
> Let me offer a counterpoint: Expressiveness. If I make a function return
> a bo
Дана 24/06/21 09:14PM, Markus Wichmann написа:
> Let me offer a counterpoint: Expressiveness. If I make a function return
> a bool, then everyone from the world's worst junior dev to Ken Thompson
> himself will be able to see at the very first glance that the function
> is returning a boolean value
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:12:15PM +0200, Mattias Andrée wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:14:19 +0200
> Markus Wichmann wrote:
>
> > Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:53:45PM +0200 schrieb Страхиња Радић:
> > > Given that, why complicate code by introducing a separate, superfluous,
> > > type?
> >
> >
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 06:48:53PM +0200, Страхиња Радић wrote:
> Дана 24/06/21 10:45AM, Greg Reagle написа:
> > Rust also has some good safety and ease-of-use features. It is very
> > big and complex with a lot of features (compared to C).
>
> Previous thread, now necroed:
>
> https://lists.su
În 22 iunie 2024 00:10:52 EEST, "Страхиња Радић" a
scris:
>Дана 24/06/21 09:14PM, Markus Wichmann написа:
>> Isn't it all about familiarity in the end? Or can you articulate what
>> parts of C11 and C23 you find objectionable?
>
>Just a few examples:
>
>- C11: bounds checking interfaces (now e
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:45:01AM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote:
> Basically what you might call "safety and ease issues."
I won't comment on the other languages mentioned because my view on
nearly all of them is negative. But most of my "safety and ease of use"
with C I've been able to solve by just
NRK wrote:
> Below are two of the most impactful changes. I was going to elaborate on
> these but it was getting *really* long very quickly so I've kept it to a
> brief overview followed by a real-world project that demonstrates these
> techniques.
I completely agree. Since trying sized strings/f
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:29:29 +0200
Storkman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:12:15PM +0200, Mattias Andrée wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:14:19 +0200
> > Markus Wichmann wrote:
> >
> > > Am Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:53:45PM +0200 schrieb Страхиња Радић:
> > > > Given that, why complicat
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