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hackers.town: 2020-07-07 Tue 08:57
My god. This keyboard looks awful.
I kind of want it.
hackers.town: 2020-07-07 Tue 09:02
@ddr I think Smalltalk got objects right. And LISP, with the meta-object protocol.
I want to like JavaScript, especially w/improvements of the last 5-ish years. I prefer object prototyping to classes.
But it stole the wrong bits from Perl. 1 + "11" = “111”but not string operators to disambiguate, and why the heck did they skip/x`?
hackers.town: 2020-07-07 Tue 16:05
I know I’m going to regret conceding to Java for this project, but I’d regret it differently if I opted for something else. “Second system” and all.
So I guess I’ll go start learning Java now.
hackers.town: 2020-07-07 Tue 16:09
@ddr one of my impossible-due-to-time-constraints dreams is to sit in front of Pharo Smalltalk, really get the hang of it, and make an Emacs clone out of it. I mean it’s halfway there already.
hackers.town: 2020-07-07 Tue 20:59
Definitely drilling into my head with practice how \s and \h are two different but useful ways to say “whitespace” in #rakulang.
I know I said I’d study Java. I did, but it’s getting late and I got a blog post to finish.