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Y combinator is a fixed-point combinator. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator

>> Currently the most popular lisp variant is Clojure.

Really?

I think, C++ U OCaml ===> Rust.

Do you know about any language with as strong or stronger borrow checker than that of Rust?

You should try Tcl.

Why no one talking about OCaml?

>> Not for sale on the Indian subcontinent.

huh?

They're using gitweb. You can read the code for any commit, just click the 'tree' link associated with it. Alternatively, just click the 'tree' link at the top for the tree of the latest commit in their default 'mob' branch.

In a Chrome dominated browser market, how much choice do the other browsers have?

No, now looked at the docs and saw that linenos does not work with rtf formatter. Sorry :(

(I didn't have to print line numbers back then)

You can generate LaTeX documents, images etc. with line numbers. And then print them. hmm.

https://pygments.org/docs/formatters/

https://pygments.org/docs/cmdline/

We had a project work to submit C programs. Originally, the teacher told us to write the programs by hand. I had written ~20 C programs in my computer and was feeling lazy to write out all of them by hand onto paper. I then asked the teacher if I could submit the programs printed on paper and she said yes.

I was already using Pygments to highlight my source code and was thinking if I could print them highlighted with it.

Pygments has many formatters to format output. I used .rtf but you can also output images as well.

I do not know how OP would be benefited from printing code, but I had to print my C code to submit as a school project.

        $ mkdir rtfs
        $ for F in src/**.rs; do
        >     pygmentize -o rtfs/$(basename $F .rs).rtf -O linenos=1 $F
        > done
        

Now open the .rtf files with a word processor and print them.

To change the highlighting theme, e.g. to "pastie":

        $ pygmentize -O style=pastie,linenos=1 ....

Nice.

>> I would now love to opensource the project for everyone.

Where is the license?

Learn more about licensing here: https://help.github.com/en/articles/licensing-a-repository

dead or broken link

fix the typoes in "Important Regular expression cheat sheet:"

    * 0 or more
    .
    .
    .
    [a-q] ...
    [A-Q] ...
    .
    .
    .
    [abc] ...
    [^abc] ...

that is, remove backslashes from the front of them

Especially interested in variable name attributes [1] ('const' and 'close') as well as to-be-closed variables. [2]

[1]: https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#3.3.7 [2]: https://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#3.3.8

        .\31{width:5%}
        .\33{width:22%}
        .\34{width:30%}
        .\35{width:40%}
        .\32{width:15%}

huh? can you tell me what those \31 \33 etc. mean?

hmm. when reading, /dev/null behaves like an empty file but /dev/zero gives you endless amounts of NUL bytes ('\0') ; iirc and the /dev/random and /dev/urandom gives you endless amounts of random bytes, but there is a subtle difference between those random sources.

>> Basically piping from /dev/null

Can you actually do that?

Why not piping from /dev/zero , heck even /dev/random or /dev/urandom ?

haha. what about microphones?

You can try FASM (http://flatassembler.net) besides YASM and ld.

Programming language

* self compiling compiler (self-hosting?).

* self interpreter interpreter (metacircular evaluator)

[from scratch. no parser generator or backends like LLVM, or tools like that, as they hide much info and insight]

Testing

* Fuzzer (for testing, e.g. programming language implementation)

Are we Turing machines? :|

Ah! Good old C.

I did not dare to open the gcc man page, now I think I will look at it.

For that constraint, one have to pass an option. I want to know if any language (other than V) which has this as default.

ah, Mathologer video.

Have seen that.

Another one by 3b1b on that topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw

>> In design - not just programming language design - constraints are generally a good thing.

The best example of that in programming language design I have seen is the V programming language. (https://vlang.io)

No global variables, no null/undefined/nil/None/... V is the only language I know in which variable shadowing is an error. (Do you know any other language with this feature/constraint?)

And then I remember the handling of ''var''s in js and hoisting etc. ... sigh!

Reminds me of the paradoxes of Zeno [1], especially the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.

At least one can simply prove that 0.999... = 1 without much hard work. Maybe less controversial than the following:

    1 + 2 + 3 + ... [somehow] = -1/12 {{Riemann's zeta(-1)?}}
    1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + ... [somehow] = -1

As well as the weird prime product (Product of 1/(1-(p^-2)) for p prime) and the sum of x^-2 from x=1 to [sigh] being equal to (pi^2)/6 are some example of infinite beauty of mathematics that I remember.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

Read the accepted answer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2800964/benefits-of-prot...

JavaScript is very expressive and powerful language. Maybe hard to learn. The prototypal inheritence and 'this' were confusing to me and took much time to understand those.

Then I learnt that prototypal inheritance is a superset of ''class''ical inheritance [1] as well as this [2]. Hmm.

With Reflect, Proxy etc. you have great metaprogramming capabilities that make this language much powerful.

Still, there are some (many?) edge/corner cases and unfixable bugs (aka features) that the language is stuck with for the sake of backwards compatibility and developers have to learn these. (The most famous of these might be typeof null === "object")

When I look at the amount of features added to the language specification, sometimes it seems like it is going to become another incarnation of the C++ specification.

I still like its expressiveness and power, but if it becomes another C++ in future, I have to look somewhere else. (TypeScript maybe.)

[1]: https://aaditmshah.github.io/why-prototypal-inheritance-matt... [2]: https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent and https://www.crockford.com/javascript/private.html