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APL is the exception that proves the rule. The one language that wanted to break the mold and do things differently has a following of... sorry can't see anybody around here
Together with LISP and FORTH, APL proves that revolutionary concepts gain very little traction among lemmings (sorry, I mean no disrespect for the rodents).
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: sorry can't see anybody around here You can count me as one. I don't have any task where I can use it for some "serious" purpose, but it was fun to play around with. At the moment, I don't have an APL interpreter available (except for one running under DOS, but that's not the thing for me). Buying a commercial one is too expensive for a play toy. And APLs of today have experienced the same feature creep as most other languages, making it a far more messy language than the pure APL I learned in my youth.
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Dan Neely wrote: But why, "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
Software Zen: delete this;
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From the first link:
Quote: 1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.
1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.
Lots of other hilarious stuff!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Yup, it's a classic. Really kinda wish he'd update it for the last decades fun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: they were going to fix the problem; := for assignment in Pascal and Ada
Every time I see that it reminds me of an emoji.
Jeremy Falcon
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Marc Clifton wrote: my dislike of the previous coder's code
I have been both blessed and cursed through my 23-year career that I almost never have to fix anything I didn't create/break!
The previous coder is me, so I only have myself to blame if it's hard to maintain or worse, misbehaves...but when it's good, well...at least nobody complains!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I love JavaScript despite its haphazard nature. Always have; always will. It will always have a special place in my heart even if WASM replaces it one day. Outside of F# it's one of the few popular languages teaching functional concepts. Despite that... I 1,000% agree. Thar be some script kiddies that give it a bad name. Forget the functional vs OOP paradigm, we're talking folks who don't know the difference between a closure and a catfish but think they're experts because they've seen a document.write once. It's so popular, that just comes with the territory. Any language with as many people using it would have tons of bad code floating around.
Btw, I much prefer TS over plain JS these days too.
Jeremy Falcon
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The teacher's workspace has both style and space! (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 21-Oct-22 4:53am.
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Classroom
Oops! Wrong number of letters.
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I think he's probably made a mistake with the number of letters
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What mistake? I see no mistake ... :InnocentWhistleSmilie:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well done - you are up Monday!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh! Well then, disregard my next guess.
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Keyboard
Definition: Teacher's workspace
Style KEY
Room BOARD
KEYBOARD
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I am thinking similar clues could be applied to various font metrics.
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Shoulda kept that to yourself! Now it's wasted, and can't be used until this conversation is long forgotten ...
Pity - it's a damn good idea.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I came across this article: Microsoft data breach exposes customers’ contact info, emails[^]
And the following sentence caught my eye:
"Redmond added that the leak was caused by the 'unintentional misconfiguration on an endpoint that is not in use across the Microsoft ecosystem' and not due to a security vulnerability."
How is a misconfigured endpoint that exposes customer info not a security vulnerability? Someone explain it to me like I'm five
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Probably not a software vulnerability. So, for example, no password configured for accessing the endpoint.
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LOL yeah, but that's like saying "hey sorry that the cake I brought you got accidentally dusted with poison on the way over, but just so you know, the cake itself was perfectly safe to eat!"
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StatementTerminator wrote: Is there any other kind? That may not be true in the near future. Or even in the present, what with self-driving cars.
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Because customer info is a commodity. Company info is a security issue.
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