On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:52, gcomnz wrote:
> Aaron Sherman wrote:
>
> > As a side note, I'd like to suggest that "English" is just rubbing
> > people's noses in the fact that they're not allowed to program in their
> > native tongue. "Names" might be less in-your-face.
>
> Why are we even having
Aaron Sherman wrote:
> As a side note, I'd like to suggest that "English" is just rubbing
> people's noses in the fact that they're not allowed to program in their
> native tongue. "Names" might be less in-your-face.
Why are we even having to say use English or Names or whatever? Why
not just ma
Aaron Sherman writes:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:38, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> > There's still a lot of premature optimization going on [...]
> > I'm surely guilty of one of them. I feel like the autothreading
> > semantics of junctions will be way to expensive without the compiler
> > knowing wheth
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:38, Luke Palmer wrote:
> There's still a lot of premature optimization going on [...]
> I'm surely guilty of one of them. I feel like the autothreading
> semantics of junctions will be way to expensive without the compiler
> knowing whether there a junction in a particula
On Apr 27, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 10:48, Luke Palmer wrote:
Aaron Sherman writes:
The reasons I don't "use English" in P5:
* Variable access is slower
Hmm, looks to me like $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR is faster. (Actually
they're the same: on each run a di
Aaron Sherman writes:
> > Ever since I stopped caring about speed, I've started to write code
> > almost twice as fast. And the code itself isn't slower.
>
> Ok, so let's separate the premature optimization from removing massive
> bottlenecks from code. When I can get a reporting program that t
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 10:48, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Aaron Sherman writes:
> > The reasons I don't "use English" in P5:
> >
> > * Variable access is slower
> Hmm, looks to me like $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR is faster. (Actually
> they're the same: on each run a different one won, but just barel
Aaron Sherman writes:
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:24 -0500, Rod Adams wrote:
>
> > Not exactly a fair comparison, since it's common to not "use English"
> > due to the $& issue.
> >
> > I suspect that if that was not the case, it would be used more.
>
> The reasons I don't "use English" in P5:
>
