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It's because the generator recurses with: return fself(num - 1) + fself(num - 2); instead of calling fib (or fib_gen) explicitly. fself is passed into the generator and it will nee…

If you read the comment you'll see that I'm talking about different interpretations of memory safety. You can't just decide what it means in Rust applies to all languages, or that …

> My objection is that I see unsafe just for memory integrity. Either you think this way because of a sense of orthodoxy or because you think memory safety is important in a way th…

> They are abusing it, specially as workarounds for constraints that cannot be expressed in the type system. That doesn't sound like abuse to me, as long as the exposed interface r…

> new generations never heard of those languages and think C was the very first systems programming language. That's just it. Rust looks enough like C++ to catch on. This was not a…

> To me, green threads are just an implementation detail. The fact that green threading is being used shouldn't leak into the interface. I think that mentality, which I supported, …

Blocking at the request level is where it's at: you don't download the content, you don't execute the scripts, you don't interact with the DOM. You block requests to third party se…

That's a little extreme. I think most computations are best¹ written in a way that is amenable to mathematical treatment, and most of the useful ones can be. Just because a counter…

> Stuff like SmallTalk wouldn't be possible if programming was turned into math > and frankly I don't understand why mathematicians want to take over a completely different domain …

FYI the quote above refers to the develeoper/community response to criticisms/ideas (eg. see the comment I replied to), not the criticisms/ideas offered by newcomers.

I don't know what it's like now. Rob Pike in particular made a lot of noise like this early on. There was a lot of parrotting of that, so it was hard to have a serious conversation…

I think it's a canary. How many languages do you hear this said about? I've only heard it in regards to Go which is fairly pedestrian (read: looks and acts something like C / Java)…

Fwiw I avoid writing both loops and recursion as much as possible. Collection data structures usually come with their own fold/map/etc functions, so this works well in practice.

I posted this in another comment, but her github repo has a Ceptre implementation: https://github.com/chrisamaphone/interactive-lp/ There are details on getting the trace graphed i…

I'm a big fan of this work. For the PDF-shy, there's some excerpted text on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5216 but you'll miss some of the goodies, like the graph of a s…

In case anyone is wondering which project this is: The concrete contribution of the research report here is the design and implementation of a fully compartmen- talized operating s…

^A in bash will go to the beginning of the line. I don't know if this is why tmux changed the key, but it certainly makes a bigger difference to me because I use that function a lo…

The idea is you can write this: let _ = print_string "foo" let _ = print_string "bar" at the top level. Of course you can write let msg = "foo" in print_string msg let msg = "bar" …

Philip Wadler's paper Monads for functional programming is the first thing I read that made any sense. FYI this is the horse's mouth.

Did you even read the article? The article's description of "beat" doesn't conflict with the musical term but yours does. In fact the article even relates beats to tempo and descri…

I agree. The title is downright bizarre until you realize the article is consumed more by JS idiosyncrasies than about the OCaml modules.