blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

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Every language has at least one niche (that it why they keep coming  
right?), but the pain is that there are tons of them. You are not  
expecting someone know all of them to the fullest right? If he tells you  
now that he knows all of it, next time you would say "There is this other  
language got one awesome feature called donuts! You don't know it, you  
suck!". Many people here do this pretty often.

He has every right to talk about languages IMO. You know he wrote  
compilers to hardest languages out there to implement. If he is wrong, it  
us up to you to prove him wrong, though not many times i have seen on this  
board that someone actually did it.

Sorry but it is ugly to see all these Walter bashings(not pointing you).
And he says/does nothing about it, it is hard not to respect his integrity.

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:59:40 +0300, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:

> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:59:21 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>> I don't mean to offend anyone, but if you [sic] CS degree (at least
>> for the last decade or so), doesn't teach about points 1 and 2 above as
>> part of core curricula, then it's a pretty crappy CS degree. The same is
>> probably also true for other related degrees (*-engineering, maths), at
>> least with regards to point 1.
>
> This reminds me of
>
>> That is funny. Now and then you and Andrei talk so confidently about Go,
>> C#, Haskell and other D competitors, without having written more than a
>> couple of lines in those languages.
>
> Walter also talks so confidently about CS degrees, without having earned
> one. The experiences probably stem from his caltech times with the smelly
> bearded hippie unix guys who wrote bubble sorts in some deprecated
> assembler dialect.
>
> This is becoming a real problem. I gave an example of Scala fairly
> recently. I've given examples of code in other languages earlier. So has
> bearophile. I can't ever assume that you guys study these basics. The
> discussion stays at this level. It takes enormous amount of effort to
> teach simple concepts. How many knows now what a monad is? It was
> discussed again recently.


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