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You can use most of the concepts in any language that allows first class functions, closures, pattern matching and types. Combinators are just ways to compose a function to create …

Yea, that’s pretty accurate. So now I’m curious what you thought the site was named after? Edit: It’s not that accurate. It’s just math used in a way to compose parsers using parse…

A functional programming technique that allow you to declaratively define your language when using parsers as values. If you have a good functional language implementation, the cod…

Still easily implemented with combinators the whole way down. It’s building an ast, that’s it. Once you have a tree, you can do whatever you want with the result before passing it …

It does not. Easily implemented with combinators the whole way down.

Having led the creation of a language/compiler professionally, the number of features that are "nice to have" are nearly infinite. And occasionally a lower priority item that was e…

Yea, that's kinda what free will is all about. I've made that decision. You're allowed to do whatever you want hun, but abstinence is a fools ideology. You have one life, and the e…

Lucky for me, I'm the sculpture and the sculptor. edit: Disambiguated a word.

How about enjoying life? I weigh in at a 130lbs at 5'9", and have the body and skin of a woman much younger. Moderation, not abstinence, is where the happiest life is.

I love it, I don't like pop often, but I like soda water all of the time. And Pepsi came out with syrup for home use, so I just keep that in the cupboard and on weekends watching a…

I prefer to hand write my own. I feel it's over-complex for simple parsers and not complex enough for the more esoteric ideas I have. But I'd love to hear of people that have had s…

We remember the sacrifices made by those to ensure our freedom. We don't celebrate the warrior soldier, in so much as we grieve their passing, and sacrifices of all who have lost t…

Pedantic irrelevance?

Well, it definitely looks like it will be pretty gay! :)

You know SpaceX uses electron for it's UI's, right?

I'm in the process of doing a technical audit of several of these for a government. My favourite so far is the ServiceNow platform. These platforms are great at making use of botto…

https://manas.tech/blog/2020/02/11/nikola-motor-company/

They are very much still in use in at least one government.

It's not a nitpick, it's a fundamental difference between the countries.

Really?

Perform, conduct, execute, the experiment, etc... You generally would set up an experiment, after making a hypothesis. You could make up an experiment, and then execute I suppose. …

Low/No code solutions are really eating the lunch of where C# was useful in large internal apps. I use it because F#, but it’s getting harder to sell that.

Apologies, I intended to comment on the same one you replied to, not to your comment. I remember struggling so hard in school to take notes, and then not understanding them. I hadn…