Been using Perl since the beginning… essentially every time I needed to write a shell script more than 10 lines long I used Perl … eventually was also using it for web back end stuff too … kind of like duct tape. I still use it today if I need to write more than 10 lines of a bash script.
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waynecochran commented on Learn Prolog Now (2006) lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpag... · Posted by u/rramadass
> In an ideal world…
I see this sentiment a lot lately. A sense of missed nostalgia.
What happened?
In 20 years, will people reminisce about JavaScript frameworks and reminisce how this was an ideal world??
It is not nostalgia. It is mathematical thought. It is more akin to to an equation and more provably correct. Closer to fundamental truth -- like touching fundamental reality.
waynecochran commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.
It's a complete waste of money and time continuing to mint such low-value currency. It can't be used for just about anything.
Unfortunately, I do see the problem with part of this. For a handful of items where it does matter, it will force people to use cards more if they want to avoid rounding. And the card providers already have a choke-hold on retailers, and the whole thing is basically a scheme that funnels money from the poor to the wealthy via interest and fees on the consumer, interchange fees, and rewards programs.
Also, we can store 1/4 exactly in binary, but not 1/100, 1/20, or 1/10. So that solves another problem.
waynecochran commented on Learn Prolog Now (2006) lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpag... · Posted by u/rramadass
I remember writing a Prolog(ish) interpreter in Common Lisp in an 90's AI course in grad school for Theorem proving (which is essentially what Prolog is doing under the hood). Really foundational to my understanding of how declarative programming works. In an ideal world I would still be programming in Lisp and using Prolog tools.
waynecochran commented on StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game quarters.captaintouch.com... · Posted by u/capitain
There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?
waynecochran commented on C++ Reflection and Qt MOC wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflec... · Posted by u/coffeeaddict1
Moc?
For the record I am a pre-AI human and I read this.
waynecochran commented on How did sports betting become legal in the US? shreyashariharan.substack... · Posted by u/_1729
50% of all men below 50 have an online sports betting account.
Remember when Snow Leopard came out? No new user features. It just ran faster. Greatest OS release in history. Why can't Apple just do that again with one of their OS's?
This is fantastic. If I can integrate it into an IDE for commenting my programs that would be next level.!