tcallred
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:59PM (#50212069)
"...some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate 'the ease of programming' with the ease of making undetected mistakes."
What a spot-on sentence.
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:39PM (#50187305)
I really appreciate that they distinguish between library code and application code. Rust gets too much of a bad rap for its complicated generic code, but in most application scenarios you are not writing code nearly that complex or generic.
Re:ChaiScript – Easy to Use Scripting for C++
on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:57PM (#20528945)
Would that make it a good candidate for microcontroller programming? I have been looking for something more elegant/functional to program arduino with. Anything about memory size on the site?