I see...
This is basically the motivation behind the Scheme language. Unify as many concepts as possible and build larger concepts over those smaller, orthogonal ones. This is how R6RS Scheme (the 2011 standard) has just a handful of keywords and builds the rest of the language over macros and functions. But as Makai was saying, anyone who has ever used either Lisp or Cobol knows how wonderful syntax really is.
ML family languages let you write your own operators, and this is used to great effect. As long as you tell somebody what a symbol means, there shouldn't be any confusion. After all, how many people here who don't do cryptography or embedded really remember that ^ is bitwise XOR?
I looooooove Scala.I loooooove the way Scala deals with operator overloading
Curious about the answer... I'd say it's common knowledge, but at the same time, I may be a bad judge since I'm still using sometimes
a^=b^=a^=b;Really liking it too, it should become my main scripting language. And that comes from someone who don't like JVM at all...
That's actually slower than using a temp
I looooooove Scala.
However, I don't really see it getting that much attention. It's cursed by the JVM.
Not in term of typing... It's at least 7 chars shorter. ^_^That's actually slower than using a temp
a^=a;Look up enumerations
I guess Ill just hang with it then until they hopefully rotate me to something else. Nothing against database work but I find it boring
I looooooove Scala.
However, I don't really see it getting that much attention. It's cursed by the JVM.
Mostly, for me, it's a mess to manage. You have to install a JVM alongside the program itself, keep track of how many different JVM are installed and which one is used by each applications. And it's not "just install one and forget about it", since JVM bugs are a common target for malicious attackers.
"The" JVM? Which one, Hotspot?
Just to be clear: it was an experimental compiler, nowhere close to a public product. And in a specific case. It's just that "real life" optimization examples are less obvious to grasp, but the benefits of having time to do automatic optimization are there. Even if it's to rewrite the code to optimize code cache invalidations in a long pipeline because of a badly predicted jump.
let rec f x = if x > 100 then (x-10) else f(f(x+11));;let rec f x = if x > 100 then (x-10) else 91;;Whatever you do, get a laptop with an SSD.
Where are you starting from?
2nd year undergrad, I know I'm probably a while off but there's choosing courses etc (plus curious to know more in general)
In the base class:
They do, but my impression is that this basically means that Ken Thompson could take the technical track and be equivalent to a top-tier manager. Which is great, but you have a much better chance of becoming one of those nameless managers he's equivalent to, than somehow match the technical achievements involved in designing significant portions of Unix.
Unless you're aiming for something specific, I wouldn't worry about your later career until you at least have a job.
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