May I ask, if there is a movie where English people speak English, French people speak French, and German people speak German, is there a software that can generate subtitles in English, French and German without translating anything? I mean, just record what it hears.
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What makes a modern Lisp? I am aware of Fennel and Jannet. Anyone havng experience with one of those or another one I am not aware of?
Janet (with one l) is modern because it is, well, new. It doesn't need to carry the historical baggage of Common Lisp. It has many data structures, a concurrency model, it is suitable for functional programming and for object-oriented programming. It has libraries for common tasks and is well documented.
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in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state.
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If you just want to write C and are ok linking to stuff that is in other languages, then I used SDL2 for my game which I wrote in C and is on the app store. It was a very pleasant experience, and if I were doing an iOS thing again, I would likely do something similar.
I think I had one objective C file in there for calling a library function I needed, but otherwise I just wrote C code.
Would it also be possible to write in both C and another (small, implementation written in C) higher level language? For example Lua or similar?
BTW if you wonder who is this guy:
Dan Gelbart is a German-born, Israel-raised, and since 1973, Canada-based inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his influential work in prototyping, machining, and high-tech innovation. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where he also served as an infantry soldier during the 1967 Six Day War.
After moving to Canada, Gelbart began his career at MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), where he developed high-speed film recorders for satellite imagery and contributed to the founding of spin-off companies like MDI-Motorola and Cymbolic Sciences. He is best known as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Creo Products, a British Columbia-based company specializing in laser-based printing technology. Creo grew to employ around 4,000 people and was sold to Kodak in 2005 for $1 billion, with much of its award-winning technology invented by Gelbart himself.
Gelbart is credited with over 100 U.S. patents (some sources state 145), spanning fields from optics and telecommunications to medical devices and metal 3D printing. He is recognized as a pioneer in computer-to-plate printing technology and has twice received the British Columbia Science Council Gold Medal. In recent years, Gelbart founded Rapidia, a Canadian manufacturer of metal 3D printing systems, introducing a water-based metal printing process that simplifies and accelerates production.
I thought he sounded like a human encyclopaedia.
At this rate, I'll be back to Tesla for any future EV purchase. (Noting that Tesla second-hand prices in Europe seem to have taken a dive over the past while, presumably partly thanks to Elon's shenanighans?)