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> For example, clang defines __GNUC__=4 (and __GNUC_MINOR__=2, __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=1) to claim compatibility with GCC 4.2.1.

Is this because Apple at some point stopped updating GCC because of the GPL license change? I think GCC 4.2.x was the last GCC licensed under GPLv2. Could be for compatibility reasons for Mac software.

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7 mesi fadiscuss

I fully agree with the article, but the snow effect on the site is more distracting to readability than the shitty menu icons in Tahoe...

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8 mesi fadiscuss

It's there, but yes the home page is very confusing. I lost interest very fast.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Weak arguments in the article with badly chosen examples.

If one wanted to criticize OCaml syntax, the need for .mli-files (with different syntax for function signatures) and the rather clunky module/signature syntax would be better candidates.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Thanks. Looks promising!

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2 anni fadiscuss

Rather for the classic 3x3x3 cube. I played with it in the 80ies, but never understood the concepts behind it.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Are there recommendable sources on how to learn solving/the concepts of a classic cube?

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2 anni fadiscuss

Perhaps a helpful addition: I collected my change money over several years (about 9kg in total, mostly lower valued coins, since the higher values can be spent easily).

After exchanging them on a bank into useful money: the average Euro coin weights about 3.6 grams and has an average value of 7 cents. :-)

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2 anni fadiscuss

Yes, that was my first thought too. The concept is similar.

Get rid if the source-files and put every function/method in its own "editor". However, as far as I remember navigation to/from callers was not possible in Smalltalk.

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2 anni fadiscuss

I'm using Sublime Text since shortly before 2.0 and Sublime Merge since day one. Yet, I'm slowly losing interest in ST because of lacking language integrations and probably won't do any future paid upgrades. However, Sublime Merge is still essential for me and a no-brainer.

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2 anni fadiscuss

> My understanding is that the primary purpose of CompCert is to make formally verified code that is extracted into C also get compiled by a compiler that is formally verified to preserve the intended semantics.

Thats my understanding too. Code is written in high level systems generating C as output. C becomes rather an implementation detail in a hopefully, more or less completely verified tool chain.

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2 anni fadiscuss

They may work as expected (and probably will), but they are not covered by the proof.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Yes, I know, I mentioned the extraction.

My question was whether it can help detecting translation errors from the first step.

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2 anni fadiscuss

In case of coq-to-ocaml: is it feasible to do an extraction to OCaml on the translated code and compare it with the original?

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2 anni fadiscuss

I'm not fluent in Swift and async, but the line:

   for try await byte in bytes { ... }

for me reads like the time/delta is determined for every single byte received over the network. I.e. millions of times for megabytes sent. Isn't that a point for optimization or do I misunderstand the semantics of the code?

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2 anni fadiscuss

> By the end of the 80s, there were really only four major computer lines in the US. You had PCs (and their clones, of which there were many), Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. For a short while there was also NeXT, but even with its big promises, great innovations and charismatic leader it didn’t survive as a hardware platform.

I rather see NeXT as a competitor in the market for Unix Workstations (Sun, HP, SGI, ...) and not as a competitor to the four mentioned (consumer) lines.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Ah, now I see. Thx.

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2 anni fadiscuss

That was also my first thought after looking at the examples.

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2 anni fadiscuss

I'm confused by this blog-post. In the table: what is the reg-ex pattern tested and against which input?

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2 anni fadiscuss

Some time ago we did a blind tasting of various colas (commercial, bottled, among the candidates were the typical brands).

Our simple result was, that there is a direct correlation between tastiness and the declared amount of sugar content...

Edit: so a plausible reason for Coke tasting better at McDonalds may be that they mix the syrup with slightly less water.

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