Great introductory talk on Pony: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pony (actor-based language with E-style capabilities!)
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Pharo's exception system is my new fave. You can resume, retry—like other condition systems—but with great syntax!
A neat result of Pharo reifying the stack: CI can just dump the stack, and you can continue locally! https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI/issues/146#issuecomment-222537286 (cf core dumps)
Smalltalk reifies the stack as objects you can manipulate. Interestingly this allows even serialising continuations! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099817
Just realised that #pharomooc is using #moocpharo as the official hash tag. Argh. I thought it was quiet.
TIL about midnight-mode, an Emacs package for cleaning up old buffers: https://emacs-fu.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/cleaning-up-buffers-automatically.html (courtesy of #churchofemacs today!)
At least, this has been my experience with Scheme. I think Shen and Forth run the same risk. 2/2
A lang should not be too easy to implement, or devs have more fun writing an interpreter than learning how to use the lang effectively! 1/2
Emacs 25 will introduce xref, a generic go-to-definition framework! https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4m9rle/how_is_the_emacs_25_pretest_faring/d3u6myu (obsoletes the find-tag commands)
Blogged: The Strange World of Directory Scope
I keep stumbling across references to the language E. I can find basic tutorials, but nothing describing the overall design goals.
Reading lots of "poor books" is also part of literacy: they help the understanding and appreciation of "good books" considerably—Alan Kay
Designing a Browser that isn’t a Browser https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-isn-t-a-browser-685b63c4b6f1 (always worth revisiting UI designs to see if their assumptions still hold)
I like to learn tech that has a different philosophy, even if it's not useful to me. However, at what point do you know you grok the design?
Smalltalk's ability to select and run text anywhere is really interesting. Reminds me somewhat of Oberon's text UI.
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