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None of them. Study Knuth. Study the Intel manuals. Study “The Art of Multiprocessor Programming”. Study compilers. Study TCP/IP. Study algorithms and data structures. Write lots o…

I'd like to give you some advice based on my own experience, and without making too many assumptions about you and what you haven't told us about your situation. I absolutely belie…

A good manager should.

How ironic is it that the Haskell Research Compiler is written in Standard ML, and not Haskell? Joking aside, SML is a great language, and often overlooked, so this is good to see!…

1994-1998 was a bad time for C++. Stepanov had just come along with the STL idea, and there were various competing implementations of it. And I don't think I need to say anything m…

What comments in support of the NSA? Any comments in support of the NSA here are IMMEDIATELY flag-killed by the HN Nazis who love to suppress any kind of free speech they don't agr…

See, children! This is what happens when you become less concerned about getting stuff done and accomplishing something great, and more concerned about fiddling with knobs and dial…

I never said anything about leaving our systems insecure. It's in the best interests of America to use security technologies to protect our national infrastructure. We should alway…

Stop doing illegal things, and then be glad that NSA are working hard to catch the real bad guys?

I know someone who used to work at an algorithm trading firm and did electronic market making. He said they used to go to great lengths to program their algorithms to try to spot t…

Algorithmic trading is intrinsically neither good nor bad. It's kind of just a natural progression in the markets once easily programmable computers and high-speed networks came al…

I think you've taken a pretty narrow interpretation of "reliable software". It seems more reasonable to think that Bjarne was speaking at a general level, i.e., the idea that softw…

Jarvis from Iron Man, or KITT from Knight Rider.

Neural networks are impressive only in that they are able to give any kind of meaningful results at all. In the end, they are only a poor mimicry of real machine intelligence, and …

I think your views on the GPL are spot on. At least we can agree on that.

> So, the reasons for not using "SBCL" have nothing to do with "good enough". It's simply about "not mine". Kaz, the C programming language isn't yours either. My point is that Com…

> > why didn't Kaz use SBCL or CLISP? > Why should he? Kaz invested a bunch of time implementing a whole new backquote implementation for CLISP, but it's still not good enough for …

Every single Python project you stated simply proves my point. They are Python compilers of some sort. TXR, on the other hand, is a data processing language implemented in its own …

> Because some random guys implement their own language in C? Why do we have Python, Ruby, Rebol? There was already PERL or AWK or ... Somebody decided to write their own scripting…

The point is that lisp advocates rarely seem to use any of these lisp implementations to do anything noteworthy or useful. They always seem to fall back on C, or some other languag…

I don't buy it. TXR is not built "on its own Lisp", it's built on C. If you believe that lisp is so great, then why didn't you just use ANSI Common Lisp? Why is TXR even necessary …

Kaz Kylheku is one of the kooks from comp.lang.lisp where lisp is the One True Language. The funny thing is that TXR is written in C! Kaz: How come you didn't write TXR in lisp?

What an offensive, restrictive, and anti-free software license! Too bad - this might have otherwise been a useful piece of software. The current license renders it toxic.

That's right. In all of history, the single most civilizing influence on the world has been the Catholic Church. Even with all the abuses and excesses, I don't think this can reaso…

Oh, look! Another Hacker News pedant come to pick meaningless holes in someone's comment. I didn't say I was an expert on parenting. Did I? Did I also say that teenagers are always…