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eschew

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    Comment #48155815

    Here is a public report from the TRACTOR evaluation team: https://github.com/DARPA-TRACTOR-Program/Reports/blob/main/F... There are also some papers being published that were funde…

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    Comment #16471859

    mkPlayer can be simplified further! mkPlayer :: Maybe Weapon -> Class -> Either Error Player mkPlayer (Just Staff) Warrior = Left "A Warrior cannot equip a Staff" mkPlayer (Just Sw…

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    Comment #16373791

    Ah, they are corrections to the article's incorrect statements! I apologize for the ambiguity.

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    Comment #16372852

    At least two of the article's statements about LLVM are false. In particular: 1) LLVM doesn't place any restrictions on how a language runtime allocates memory. 2) LLVM doesn't "ex…

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    Comment #10773149

    Hmm. I looked at the list of five and thought to myself: "four legends and... who on earth is Scott Fahlman?" Turns out he invented the smiley! TIL

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    Comment #8776927

    GHC, at least, uses the same implementation for IORef and STRef: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.3.1.0/docs/src/GHC... Poking through GHC's runtime source, I see a writer…

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    Comment #8702577

    He essentially retracted his original assertion eight months after it was published, see the first few "Update" sections of http://www.philipreames.com/Blog/2014/02/21/why-not-use-…