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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-04 12:34:09

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

@robpike@hachyderm.io
2025-04-15 09:15:40

A happy Japanese pun from
reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1
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Fun fact from Japan! We have a saying "郷に入っては郷に従え" (gō ni itte wa gō ni shitagae) which is our version of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." Here "郷" (gō) means "village" or "hometown" - equivalent to "Rome" in the English proverb.
The funny part - in Japanese, "郷" (gō) sounds exactly like "Go"! So Go programmers here often joke: "Goに入ってはGoに従え" (Go ni itte wa Go ni shitagae) or "When in Go-land, follow Go's ways." A perfect bilingual pun that just works!

@arXiv_physicscompph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-03 16:46:49

This arxiv.org/abs/2409.05580 has been replaced.
initial toot: mastoxiv.page/@ar…

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-06-09 20:42:03

from my link log —
Alan Kay did not invent object-oriented programming.
hillelwayne.com/post/alan-kay/
saved 2025-05-11

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-12 03:46:56

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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