Streem – a new programming language from Matz
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Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
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#3Why do most implementations of FizzBuzz special case % 15? I haven't ever really understood this. Maybe it's just my math-y background, but it always seemed to me you should just check mod 3 and mod 5 without an else between them, concatenating Fizz and Buzz.
Can anyone else comment on this? Most canonical FizzBuzz programs special case 15, and I don't get it.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#4Why do most implementations of FizzBuzz special case % 15? I haven't ever really understood this. Maybe it's just my math-y background, but it always seemed to me you should just check mod 3 and mod 5 without an else between them, concatenating Fizz and Buzz. Can anyone else comment on this? Most canonical FizzBuzz programs special case 15, and I don't get it.
Easier to understand for beginners, I suppose.
For the record, I have utterly no math background (hardly passed algebra), but I also agree that checking only 3 and 5 is the better solution and is how I've always written FizzBuzz.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#5Why do most implementations of FizzBuzz special case % 15? I haven't ever really understood this. Maybe it's just my math-y background, but it always seemed to me you should just check mod 3 and mod 5 without an else between them, concatenating Fizz and Buzz. Can anyone else comment on this? Most canonical FizzBuzz programs special case 15, and I don't get it.
It's to neatly handle the line break.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#6I'm not really a programming language expert, but it seems to me that having an implementation being the spec wouldn't be a good idea. If the Streem implementation has a bug, then the bug becomes the authoritative behavior. Any platform specific quirks would also make it difficult to have defined behavior.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#7At the very least, it's going to be amazing to watch a master language designer build a new language from the ground up.
That said, I'm incredibly optimistic about a new Matz language. If I was going to guess, the syntax will be much lighter and the semantics will make VM optimization much easier than in Ruby.
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#8Reminds me a lot of Elixir's |> operator, which does the exact same thing. Nice! Curious how it'll turn out to compare with Elixir on other areas.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#9I'm not really a programming language expert, but it seems to me that having an implementation being the spec wouldn't be a good idea. If the Streem implementation has a bug, then the bug becomes the authoritative behavior. Any platform specific quirks would also make it difficult to have defined behavior.
Yep, welcome to Ruby!
To be fair, a spec with tests was reversed out of the ruby implementation[1], so things have improved a bit.
Re: Streem – a new programming language from Matz
#10Why do most implementations of FizzBuzz special case % 15? I haven't ever really understood this. Maybe it's just my math-y background, but it always seemed to me you should just check mod 3 and mod 5 without an else between them, concatenating Fizz and Buzz. Can anyone else comment on this? Most canonical FizzBuzz programs special case 15, and I don't get it.
It's to neatly handle the line break.
I suppose it's a style issue as to whether an extra mod is better than checking if one of the triggers has passed. I would propose it's more DRY to do it the short way though.