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mastersenbieon Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus

Aren't socks and pantyhose woven on circular looms?

mastersenbieon WebGL in Firefox Nightly Builds

Try using "for in" to iterate through the returned canvas's properties. You'll get all the methods of the canvas. So far this sort of stuff works (OSX Leopard): gl.clearColor(0,0,0,0); gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

mastersenbieon Multicore Programming in Haskell Now

OCaml is a well designed, well implemented language.

Unfortunately, it sits at an unstable point in language design space. If you like it because it's practical, there are other languages (C++ and Java) that are even more practical. If you like it because it's functional, there are other languages (Haskell, Erlang) that are even more functional. If you like it for being ML with objects, then you would probably like F# even better. And so forth.

The result is that there just aren't that many people who like Ocaml more than another language.

mastersenbieon LLVM releases compiler-rt, a libgcc replacement

It looks like compiler-rt is a replacement for only a small part of libgcc, It's just the functions you need to _run_ C programs. It doesn't include functions like printf.

And as for why they're doing it, it's to allow llvm work without a dependency on another project.