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There are some Haskell apps in the app store but they are not official or they are using tricks like executing the code in a remote server.
The funnel shape of the scatter plot immediately reminded me of an article on the insensitivity to sample size pitfall [0], which points out that you'll expect entities with smaller sample sizes to show up more often in the extremes because of the higher variance. Looks like the tags with the biggest differences exemplify this pretty well. [0]- http://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-2...
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It was around when Dijkstra died that UT switched away from Haskell to Java. And yes, from what I've heard from several faculty members around in that period, a lot of it was from external pressure from large regional employers (some of which you have mentioned).
Honestly, would you rather hire an intern that has to learn Java from scratch, or one that actually had a class in it? I'm a fan of Haskell, but I think it being the intro CS class language is an educational fail.
You don't use recursion or pointers professionally? On what world are you considered a real world programmer?
The one where I've done it as a career for the last 15 years (and as a hobby/side career for a few years before that). I've not touched a pointer directly in the last 10 and infrequently enough before that. Just not much call for them in Python, JavaScript and PHP. Do I have to hand in my Real World Programmer(TM) badge at the door or something?.
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Then again, sed works differently on different platforms, and awk is not the same as gawk or nawk, both of which have many more features than standard awk. If you're used to the GNU implementation, you might be surprised to find your script doesn't work on a system without the gawk implementation. On Linux, I can use this sed command: sed -i ‘s/^”//’ example.txt That deletes any quotation marks that are at the beginn…
"Then again, sed works differently on different platforms" Well that kills my idea why to use awk/sed. What would you use @freehunter?
"actionscript 3" what? o_O I thought this is over
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If you can get NullPointerException, then you are using pointers. May be you meant that you can't use pointer arithmetic, but pointers are used almost everywhere.
If you can't use pointer arithmetic, you don't use pointers. Your language uses them internally, but not you. NullPointerException in Java/C# is a result of a leaky abstraction.
Is it someone's definition of pointer?
> Your language uses them internally, but not you.
I'm actively using pointers that point to object.
> NullPointerException in Java/C# is a result of a leaky abstraction.
I don't agree. Java has uses pointers (which also called references and those are synonyms for Java), Java has concept of null pointer and I don't see why NullPointerException is leaky abstraction.