WolfLots of #rustlang over the weekend. Lots of stuff to say. I’m writing small programs (mostly #adventofcode) with lots of looking stuff up. Looking stuff up shows me just how much _more_ Rust there is to know. Rust chained iterator expressions can do everything a #Python list #comprehension can do. I use #pandas all the time. #polars is data compatible and you can call it from Rust. This could help me in my job. The way you implement methods in Rust is _so_ much like type-bound procedures in #oberon2. I have more and more respect for Rust. I still love Python.
@CGM Thinking back, there were so many wonderful things in these languages, even languages that for one reason or another essentially went away. My best friend is a #Perl expert (which I used at #Slashdot). I love that Perl has regular expressions built-in to the language; but I don’t want to write Perl anymore. I loved the way #Oberon2 connected functions to types.
@CGM I never heard of #SASL! I have always been a huge #Wirth fan. Did tons of real-life work in #Pascal, moved through #Modula2 up to, finally, #Oberon2. Had such fond memories of it that I tried to use it last year for #AdventOfCode and learned that it was not nearly as good as I remembered. Have you tried #Racket (a kind of #Scheme)? It’s not for me but it’s interesting. Used it in a job interview once. Your description of how flow control is defined in #TCL really reminds me of Racket. I’m learning #RustLang and having the kind of #Macros you get in #Lisp and Scheme is another reason Rust is so enjoyable.
I’ve been implementing #adventofcode in lots of languages for an upcoming @mug meeting. Loved #oberon2 back in the day so I thought I’d give it a try. Oh my God so many limitations. And I couldn’t figure out how to get or use any libraries. I’m sure there are some; just not for me. I eventually gave up. You just remember some things as better than they turn out to really be.
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Hartmut GoebelAus gegebenen Anlass ein kleiner Auszug aus meiner Veröffentlichungsliste:
- Modulator 73: Dotzel/Goebel: 64 Bit Oberon for OpenVMS Alpha http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt73.htm
- Modulator 68. Dotzel/Goebel: 64 bit addressing in Alpha Oberon-2
http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt68.htm
weitere Veröffentlichungen zu #Oberon2 und #Modula2: http://www.modulaware.com/mdltr_.htm
jnsRIP Niklaus Wirth. :(
Creator of various programming languages like #modula #modula2 #oberon #oberon2 #oberon07 #pascal and more... the Oberon OS, and interesting computing hardware, such as the Lilith computer, has passed on the 1st of Jan.
He was one of the few people who actually made the full computing stack, from a language and compiler to OS, to hardware to run it on.
I'm hoping that re-imagining computing from the ground up like that, didn't just die with him.
Barry Schwartz 🫖I have now added #Oberon2 --
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Modular_inverse#Oberon-2
(UPDATE: Now with bugfix and regression test.)
I have hacked out a #Gentoo ebuild for the Oxford #Oberon2 Compiler:
chemoelectric / chemoelectric-overlay / dev-lang / obc — Bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/chemoelectric/chemoelectric-overlay/src/master/dev-lang/obc/
For the #RosettaCode buffs who program in all the languages except those they hate, and sometimes even in those they hate.