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Only old C++, new C++ creeps up the y axis.
C++ occupies a region of the space rather than a singular point, since old C++ is part of new C++.
One way you might arranging programming languages in a 2D space is with two axes: 1. How much should the language surprise you? 2. When the language does surprise you, should it delight you or horrify you? surprising ^ | | | delight horrify | | | v unsurprising Only a sadist would deliberately design a language for the top right quadrant, but there are many esoteric languages in there. I think most people tacitly ass…
The issue I have with the language is that I went from the top left of that graph to fairly far on the right, vacillating between the top or bottom. That happened for me long before it became Raku. I clearly remember reading through the synopsis and exegesis documents around fifteen years ago and being excited for what was to come, but I also remember the first bits that gave me pause. Like unspace[1]. I also clearly…
There's More Than One Way To Do It
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Are they almost always what you want? Like, what kind of code do you work on? I personally find, that I need floats quite rarely and rationals usually are just fine, when I write Scheme. And when I write Python, floats also don't come up that often, except for in places where I would rather like to have exact numbers than inexact ones, always making me doubt, whether what I calculate here might have too big error in…
It's mostly in calculating percentages, measuring timing, computing the interval to wait to satisfy a rate limit, that sort of thing. None of those require the extra overhead of an exact datatype in the contexts I'm using them.
For what it's worth I agree with you when it comes to languages where 50+x overhead isn't an ever-present fact; you should generally have to opt in to using decimal types and the like.
Isn't this still the usual critique of a language before knowing much about the language? We were used to this with Perl's "line noise". Now we get > Raku has no qualms about using Unicode operators. You have the option. I have used this option because I want my code to be compact and expressive on screen. A good fit for careful, considered, creative unicode usage. Or the ever popular (Jeez that's new): > I hate the…
One way you might arranging programming languages in a 2D space is with two axes: 1. How much should the language surprise you? 2. When the language does surprise you, should it delight you or horrify you? surprising ^ | | | delight horrify | | | v unsurprising Only a sadist would deliberately design a language for the top right quadrant, but there are many esoteric languages in there. I think most people tacitly ass…
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Unable to deduce arithmetic or geometric sequence from: 1,2,5 Did you really mean '..'?
> arithmetic or geometric See, that doesn't delight me. OEIS is what's needed here.
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> arithmetic or geometric See, that doesn't delight me. OEIS is what's needed here.
Do you want it to take the first match? Inputting a unique prefix doesn't sound practical.
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Python top right, Go bottom right, Brainfuck bottom left, Rust or Perl top left. (Don't kill me fanatics)
Do you think many people would put Rust and Perl next to each other?