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As free advertisement to rsync.net, I also like the service and support. I have not deleted any of my daily borg backups for many years, covering my laptop and some servers. Borg h…

Despite its flaws and issues, email is federated and has been working at scale for decades.

Besides being the stardand, it also has a standard: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/e...

Come on, these three phrases aren't equivalent or comparable. They "can arguably be construed as the violence" from a discriminatory argument. An honest argument wouldn't provide u…

There are many other factors that influence language popularity besides technical quality, like: - marketing; - big companies using it; - familiarity; - history of the creators; - …

> That's fine for a primitive compiler built for a school project, but not much else. Not true. On the one hand, just see how many non-compiled languages are used outside of primit…

I have the impression you're mixing single-pass compilation and O(1) memory use of the compiler. As is, C already is single-pass compilable, modulo some unnecessary syntax ambiguit…

Thanks, but no thanks.

> The parser being stand-alone means it is much simpler to understand and unittest. Stand-aloneness and single-passness are orthogonal. > I found no advantage to a single pass comp…

I have my own list of things that could "easily" be added to C, but I'd rather them not to be.

Good suggestions, but also meh, e.g.: forward declaration requirement enables a single-pass compiler to emit code on-the-fly. I have a much better list for things to add to C: Noth…

LISP doesn't really read well the bigger the codebase [citation needed]

There is nothing wrong with using PEGs for SQL parsing, but this article (I didn't read the paper) presents flawed arguments: - tech $X is from the 60s, therefore it is bad and/or …

Not key value dictionaries, just pointers are needed. A closure with no behaviour is just a pointer to the enclosed variable. A closure with 2 pointers is a pair, which you can get…

Zero accessibility =/ As great as it may be, this isn't something I'd pick as it'd be unusable in this cases.

From the same article: > Brazil’s Supreme Court has drastically expanded its power to counter the antidemocratic stances of Mr. Bolsonaro and his supporters. The title is a leading…

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Yep, that says not to include generated files in VCS. I've also seen the bison and flex output included in VCS, and the same guidelines apply.

Oh god why. I thought (and hoped) that GP didn't actually mean this. I see how a team or an organization can eventually get to this point. It just saddens me that they got there.

s/generated/generate/

> Nowadays it's not that big a deal. The same can be said about autotools itself :/ Historical and current use indeed vary, and many times even using autotools itself isn't as appr…

That's not the case for autotools output, or flex and bison output. If the generated files are what you say? Well, just embed the generation step into the build system. A simple ap…

IIRC Debian has a policy on preferring to generated files themselves. I couldn't find the link to it right now, though.

yacc and lex, their description and some implementations are simple. Flex and certainly Bison are not.

In this case, I can say autotools's advice is outdated at best, and one shouldn't follow it. It adds unneeded complexity.