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Thanks for posting. Others may be interested in this short clip of Weil talking at the 46 minutes mark of “The Story of Maths” documentary: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ejqo…

"About the series - The Perspectives series is a collection of essays written by individuals from Sun Microsystems Laboratories. These essays express ideas and opinions held by the…

I second that, awk's a very clean language to look at log files or data files and do quick analysis or clean up.

Definitely has a Lucida Grande feel to it, which, if I recall correctly, was one of the font on Plan9. The Go Mono isn't close to Lucida Grande Mono, but certainly looks like an in…

About 8% of the world is color blind, so having standard positions on traffic light is indeed very important.

I am interested and curious. Could you give an example of something you were dissatisfied with, and at which you became great because of those books? Thanks.

It clarifies the fact that Go is successful for more reasons than just being pushed by Google. So it focuses the question to "what is it that people like about it". And then we can…

Swimming.

> Part of the goal was to make something fast that's both safer and easier than C. Right, and also fast compilation. I remember reading the goal was ~20% slower than C for overall …

True. But plaintext is almost a self documented format. The structure/format of an org more file is obvious just by looking at it really. Can't say the same about a binary file.

Interesting timing, there's a new Bourbaki volume coming out in a few weeks, the first one in decades: Topologie Algébrique, Chapitre 1 à 4.

So Kernighan uses the sam editor, classic.

Good comment by Gates. It's the difference between giving out of your excesses and giving out of your poverty.

Agreed, I like the design. If you're here checking out the programming language, you're up for an original experience I'd say. I don't mind clicking 'about' to learn the minimum, a…

> throwing away all of that familiarity in the name of elegance That looks like a good deal to me! :)

Thanks for posting this. The mathematics involved is way above my head, but it's very pleasant to read about this group of mathematicians and particular time. This sentence from Il…

yes, yes, reasonably close.

The good think of portable ANSI C, compile anywhere there is a C compiler. Very nice.

Waiting for this Kernighan piece: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Pr...

What a good expression. Did the author originate it?

It may have more GC issues, or maybe it probably has more GC issues.

Certainly it will be considered if your project has certain kinds of requirements other languages fails to cover (no vm, highest performance, no gc, ...). Those are very relevant t…

Interesting. Why don't you use an include file directive there? enum_example_t { #include "example_values.txt" EXAMPLE_Max, } where example_values would have the strings 'EXAMPLE_f…