interesting, important discussion https://github.com/modula3/cm3/issues/42
i think the requestor is right. may be i need tot initialize the array with other values, why spend time to initialize it to zeros?
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A good language design may be summarized in five catch phrases: simplicity, security, fast translation, efficient object code, and readability.
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http://simula67.at.ifi.uio.no/50years/ 50 years anniversary of Simula, the first object-oriented programming language.
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C, Rust, Pascal and Go are the best in terms of energy consumption!
https://jaxenter.com/energy-efficient-programming-languages-137264.html
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TIL swift allows emojis as variables
yes, that’s a very useful feature of the modern languages, and unicode will allow to use one exact symbol instead of =>, <=, and most importantly ==, by mapping keys, so that we’ll avoid problems like if (a=b) which is always true. (:
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@{Antranig Vartanian ; antranigv@spyurk.am} told me that he met Paul Vixie, author of vixie-cron. (: Here, in Yerevan. At some conference. And Paul said that he loves Modula-3 and Wirthian languages. And he was writing in Modula-3 and he has an article about it. http://www.redbarn.org/node/20
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if you are forced to use a subset of the language due to its complexity, then they failed to offer an useful language.
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