Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
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Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#2this is a very interesting feature:
8If adding a value to a type where the result exceeds the type's maximum capacity in either the positive or negative direction, the type must remain at its previous value.
Note
This means that if you add 1 to an int at value 2^31, it will stay at 2^31. This is also called "saturating" a value.
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#3Interesting project :).
> First, let's write a standard that's as polished as it can be. Then, once the standard is ready, we can start making it real.
I've learned on several occasions that things don't actually work that way. Writing the actual code and running/testing it is the only way to ensure that your ideas will indeed work and that you didn't miss corner cases. Except of course if the problem at hand is trivial, but that's clearly not the case here, and I feel like trial and error will be much necessary.
Note that this isn't only true for code. It's about writing in general, even when doing theoretical science that doesn't translate to code in the end.
There is a PhD Comics, I think, where a character says something like "remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and doing science is writing it down". Exactly.
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From the todo list:
> procedural, functional, imperative?
Authors should probably also look into reactive programming and dataflow languages such as Lustre, Esterel, ReactiveML, etc. Probably some good inspiration there for this kind of tasks :).
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#4Very interesting. Really curious to hear how this wants to distinguish itself from both sclang and pd. My intuition/hope though is that this could be the kind of thing you could write ugens/extensions with for those higher level languages.
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#5Wait, noise cancelling works by wireless beaming its signal? What like into your head!?
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#6Wait, noise cancelling works by wireless beaming its signal? What like into your head!?
It’s a different clause matching the “wireless” attribute.
Noise cancelling works by emitting a synchronised inverse of the sound wave to cancel.
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#7I wonder what mean by first class support for RISC-V
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#8this is a very interesting feature: 8 If adding a value to a type where the result exceeds the type's maximum capacity in either the positive or negative direction, the type must remain at its previous value. Note This means that if you add 1 to an int at value 2^31, it will stay at 2^31. This is also called "saturating" a value.
The proposed mechanism is only equivalent to a saturating add when you add 1
Re: Welcome to the Chata Programming Language
#9I'd say make this wasm native - base on the component model so chata would be a glue for different capabilities
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#10FWIW, "chata" in Portuguese means something like "boring" and "annoying". But at least it's not vulgar or obscene.
Naming for an international audience is hard.