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    Comment #7622620

    This intro is great, and the lighting is really, really nice. But TBH I do not like accelerated intros/demos, because the most difficult part of the code, i.e. 3D graphics pipeline…

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    Comment #7162802

    Looks interesting, but style of the program is terrible. Drawing function are mixed with model definition and sample circuit definition. BTW resistance function do not handle divis…

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    Comment #6886606

    See also FQA: http://www.yosefk.com/c++fqa/index.html

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    Comment #6832577

    The sample plot is wrong. Domain of sin x + log(x+1) derivative is R - {-1}, so there must not be any vertical line at x = -1.

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    Comment #6784554

    "You have reinvented Brainfuck but non-ironically" - brilliant. :)

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    Comment #6577203

    I agree, but why not use existing program like M4.

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    Comment #6574126

    IMHO it's a matter of experience. When I was young I believed that programming is about writing a lot of code that "just work". Now, after many private and commercial projects, I k…

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    Comment #6573092

    Your project is great, Pascal is really underrated language. I looked at parser (hand written are best), this part spotted my eyes https://github.com/lkesteloot/turbopascal/blob/ma…

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    Comment #6316993

    Looks like Algol68 with some OOP.

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    Comment #4996264

    Great list. Paper "Strongly universal string hashing is fast" is very interesting.

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    Comment #4274269

    #if 0 ... #endif in C/C++ is not a true comment -- commented text is parsed by preprocessor.

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    Comment #4002269

    2 other quotes: Q: "If you were young again, would you start writing TeX again or would you use Microsoft Word, or another word processor?" A: "I hope to die before I have to use M…

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    Comment #3911162

    List of reasons is so short... For example since 9.1 Postgres support foreign data tables - other data sources is available for user as regular table; there are many drivers: MySQL…

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    Comment #3893709

    This is animated de Casteljau algorithm, fix the title. :)