/prog/ - The costs of abstraction

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:21

Discussion on why C is still the only serious programming language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWuNmgjRnP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Ik1oONaqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQp7CaK1s0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEJl_H9gK3k

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:33

Is there a text version? Videos are a waste of time.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:52

What about Fortran, Forth, Ada and Pascal: the other serious programming languages?

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:53

C is useless. Performance is not important.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 18:14

>>2
The slides are available, but it covers much less than his talk.
http://port70.net/~nsz/slcon/abstraction_talk.html

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 18:27

>>5
Not worthy of my time then. Slides are uninformative, videos are time-wasting. Full text write-ups like whitepapers or blog/forum posts are the superior medium.

Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:18

>>1
WAT A FUCKIN TWIG. WENEVER I LOOK AT DA RETOIDS WHO DO DESE PROGRAMMIN TALKS,DEYRE EITHER TWIGS OR BINARY BLOBS. TWIGS N BINARY BLOBS. N U GOT ALL DOSE FUCKIN TRANSSEXUALS TOO

Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:19

N NOW DAT UVE SEEN A TWIG, GET A LOOK AT A BINARY BLOB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnr4sXArCwI

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 2:39

>>7,8
But I thought you loved suckless ideas, LAC!

Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:44

>>9
I LIKE STARTIN SHIT, IM AN INSTIGATOR

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:16

What is speech to text?

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:41

Calculus is all talk and no action.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:58

>>10
Where are your coreutils then?
Don't tell me you are all talk and no action?
sbase is right there, albeit not complete yet it's pretty far. Can you even find much stuff to criticized on the finished programs?
Don't tell me you are all talk and no action!
STEP UP UR GAME OR U WILL BECUM 1 OF DEM RETOIDS!

The costs of abstraction

1 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:21

2 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:33

3 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:52

4 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 17:53

5 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 18:14

6 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-15 18:27

7 Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:18

8 Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:19

9 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 2:39

10 Name: L. A. Calculus !jYCj6s4P.g 2015-02-16 2:44

11 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:16

12 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:41

13 Name: Anonymous 2015-02-16 3:58