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Similar article I read 10 years ago that covers some of the same ground, with some pretty SVG's as well. http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/train-tracks

% biff 2026 M05 28, Thu 17:27:46 Ahh, the month of M05

I also use this one everyday. I learned the quick one back in the day, but I value never ever having to stop and re-tie my laces.

Under the "Countries Visited" section it says "been lucky to run on all seven continents, including antarctica!", but it doesn't look like they've been to Australia.

Answering for myself, I started looking into APL, but at the time, learning the keymaps for the symbols seemed difficult, so I started learning array lang techniques with J, and en…

I wa recently playing with this pattern in J, where it can be expressed like so ~:"1/~&.#:i.2^8 See it here: https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2/#base64=b...

First thing I thought of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4g4WBo-5fc

I was also a big fan of the Panorama feature that used to be built in. These days I'm using the Panorama Tab Groups [1] extension, which provide a practically identical experience …

FWIW, I solved this in J as follows F =: >@{.@(\: #@>)@(#~ (2 >: +/@e.&'aeoiu')@>) which I think maybe composes a little better This doesn't include the splitting. I would imagine …

Another Unicode article that mentions Swift, but not Raku :( Raku's Str type has a `.chars` method that counts graphemes. It has a separate `.codes` method to count codepoints. It …

I went looking for a web browser!

> "Produce" is a term I've never seen used this way before, and I assume it is unique to Raku. More commonly referred to in the functional languages as a `scan`, but yes, it seems …

I know cygx already replied, but to be clear, function signatures have been available in Perl since 2015. They were added (as experimental) in 5.20, and are now enabled by default …

This is exactly what Raku does. Neither strings nor arrays have a `.length` method because it's arbitrary. [0] > "\c[FACE PALM]".chars 1 [1] > "\c[FACE PALM]".codes 1 [2] > "\c[FAC…

> Personally I think this kind of computer-control is the perfect environment for teaching computing. Rather than writing apps or webapps, I feel like the idea of just writing code…

The closest thing these days is probably p5js (Processing in JS). function setup() { createCanvas(640, 480) } function draw() { background(0, 100, 200) strokeWeight(100) stroke(200…

I'll repeat the sentiment that "always" and "never" rules usually have their fair share of exception. And while I agree that [closed, open) intervals are often the best choice... s…

Discussion of the ligature issue (and a screenshot) in the Reddit post comments. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/z18gb6/comment...

One potential use case could be in creating bindings for other languages that do not have an expect like module. Since it reportedly has a "saner interface than libexpect", it migh…

> right from the beginning, the say turns me off, computers do not speak This seems a bit of an odd argument. You've never heard the phrase "The sign says ...", or asked someone "W…

> isn't it more like Python 3 Not in the slightest. Python 3 made breaking changes to the CPython code base (yes that's a simplification). There's enough backwards incompatibility …

The first operation where I split to lines, then join, then split again... was annoying me. So now I've got this say qx .lines.skip.batch(9) .map({ |([Z] .join.comb(22).batch(3)) }…

Just for fun, I tried it in Raku. say qx # Command output as string .lines.skip.join("\n").split(/\n\n+/) # Skip year & split groups .map({ |([Z] .lines.join.comb(22).batch(3)) }) …

Raku also has a specific string type (Str) that is not just a bag of bytes. Strings are normalized (NFC) when they are created, and multi-codepoint graphemes are represented intern…