SeekingMeaning

Behold my masterpiece

  p='"%s"';r="'%s'";_='p=%s;r=%s;_=%s;print(_%%((0and[r%%p,p%%r,r%%_])or(tuple([r%%p,p%%r,r%%_]))))';print(_%((0and[r%p,p%r,r%_])or(tuple([r%p,p%r,r%_]))))

with inspiration from https://stackoverflow.com/q/6223285 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/2475931

Slightly modified so that it runs either a Ruby file or a Python one:

  (0 and eval(IO.read("ruby.rb"))) or eval(compile(open("python.py").read(), "", "exec"))

Granted, this doesn’t close the Python file, which is delayed until garbage collection or program termination.

Interesting article. I thought this was a really good metaphor:

> ... my own childhood, the lost civilisation on which my adult self now stood.

Ah yes, the programmers blame the engineers, and the engineers blame the programmers

Rust newbie here. How do you fix the compile error for the example given? I imagine it has something to do with transferring ownership, but I’m not too sure.

That last sentence... As a college student, I’ve never thought about that. It’s crazy to think that the percent difference in age gets smaller over time.

> Philip M. Parker, by one measure the world's most prolific author, has an entirely different approach. Parker has over 200,000 titles listed on Amazon.com, having developed an algorithm to gather publicly available data and compile it into book form.

This NYT article is cited as the source: http://archive.ph/glW3U

12 years later, I wonder how computer generated books are now.

> April 6, 2000

Wow. That goes waaaaaaay back. It’s crazy to think that 1980 was to him at the time as 2000 is to us _right now_.

Beefheads

Ah, yeah. In that regard, I agree, Ruby could use some improvement.

Genuinely curious, what makes Python look more like pseudocode? The use of colons?

Regardless, I’ve always thought that Ruby is more like pseudocode because with Ruby, I’m able to worry less about syntax and more about what I’m trying to do. Maybe it’s just me?

Does Pony still work on Windows? There’s an issue about it[1] from 2015 and the one developer who uses Windows hasn’t committed to the repo since 2016.

1: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/434

> Ignore the campaign rhetoric, but stay for any lessons imparted by some of the best hackers in the world. A lot can be learned from them; politicians, not so much.

Sad but true...

Note: Crystal doesn’t support native Windows, but they’re steadily getting there https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

Don’t forget about the house of representatives

Not gonna lie, I thought the example code was a diff at first