I don't like that yosefk article, because it's too dismissive. Research into making high-level languages efficient in hardware is basically dead, but that's not my point. Here's a saying from an acquaintance of mine:
Efficiency should take a backseat to comprehensibility and even security. Imagine a machine where malware can't hide. Isn't that worth some lost cycles, since it's not as if our modern hardware is making good use of all this efficiency anyway?Stanislav said:
not gonna happen
That would likely be Godel's Theorem, and no. Allow me to correct this ignorance.
At the end of the day, people (who are mostly not programmers and don't understand computers the way we do) are going to gravitate towards a machine that costs less than another and, in turn, programmers are mostly going to opt for being "lazy" if that's an available option. As far as I know, all of this came before the modern plague of JavaScript slop and the like, because the prophet
fortune-mod told me:(vulgarity)
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No matter how clever the hardware boys are, the software boys piss it away.
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dude old school programmers are so goated. the things my professors tell me they did when they were in school would have my classmates pissing and shitting themselves, causing mass drop-outs. i'm told back then the computer science degree didn't exist, and most started out as mathematicians or engineers. old school programmers were cracked out and knew what they were doing from the hardware down to the maths and abstraction of it all vs the modern faggot brogrammer who can barely pass discrete mathematics and data structures without nearly roping himself. talking to any old school programmer gives me so much motivation, they are the coolest people you'll ever meet.
The problem lies mostly in the modern programmer not caring about their craft. Many have been pulled in with the promise of high salaries, just doing the bare minimum to get by. Besides having low interest, this group is also less cognitively gifted (INDIANS).
What software was better in the past?
Something really interesting about the game filesize bloat is that, at least for a while, there could've been a case for it. For the few generations when games weren't locally installed on console drives, there would've been no footprint of inconvenience in filling the disc out as much as possible, since you use it or you lose it, and it's not gobbling up your drive space.
This also makes me sad. I think the siren call of technology being a lucrative market has led to the dominant voice being one that doesn't acknowledge its artistry. I think there's art in just about every craft, but I rarely find another coder these days IRL who codes because they like the craftsmanship of the coding and find sincere joy in writing beautiful code.
The Windows operating system.
This is the case with some modern games as well, it's an optimization for spinning hard drives. SSDs of course have been mainstream for a while, but there are many countries where computers are much more low-end, so the spinning HDD is the lowest common denominator. Helldivers recently added a SSD install mode which massively reduces the size of the game, and other games should follow in time.
$ ent random.bin
Entropy = 7.999084 bits per byte.
Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 200704 byte file by 0 percent.
Chi square distribution for 200704 samples is 255.24, and randomly
would exceed this value 48.39 percent of the times.
Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.3630 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.146068759 (error 0.14 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is -0.002271 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).
" because its got a built in compiler to solve all the unsafe C code they use to make their language actually work.
if you want a natural language programming language check out inweb or inform7 https://github.com/ganelson/inform its more of a toy lang but it has promise outside of writing interactive fiction.
I dislike Paul Graham, but his book ANSI Common Lisp makes for a decent reference once one reads through it. Don't pay more than $10 for a copy. While Practical Common Lisp is gratis, I didn't care for it, but others seem to like it. Here are two different links to the HyperSpec, which was quite advanced at the time:
if you are grading first years and they are doing java, you will see the worst slop code you have EVER seen in your life. Comments making any sort of sense and code that won't run are just par for the course. Hell my favorite was just explaining how to install the jdk ... multiple times throughout the semester. While all my experience is before the advent of AI and all you had were kids attempting to compile java using eclipse on a weird fucked up mix of ubuntu win7 and i think osx Lion. In this post AI world, I expect the code to be WAY worse.
I too asked before and got good recommendations regarding Java, Python and C if I remember. I don't remember the page, but I probably have bookmarked. I need to return to it whenever I can...Hey I hate to be the n00b faggot retard asking the question that infuriates the actual real programmers....but does anyone have some good recommendations for documentation or videos / tutorials for learning Lisp? Preferably Common Lisp because its modern(by 1980s standards) and its very powerful and multipurpose compared to some of the other Lisp dialects. I thought Id be a basic nigger and learn C, maybe Zig to get in with Gen Z and dunk on Rust trannies who don't realize that Zig solves all their failed attempts at "OMG lets rewrite everything in Rust UWU
Common Lisp has a lot of things that seem to match what Im interested in. Lots of flexibility and power without being dependent on importing 100 libraries of functions made by other people. I want a programming language that lets me do everything myself so I can be alone off grid making my ultimate hacking weapon to spam NIGGER on all frequencies to end the Zionist government but lack the autistic capabilities to program in assembly
Jokes aside, if a hobbyist retard wanted to make Lisp his first language, any suggestions?
It's unfortunately representative of the real world. I work at FAGMAN, and everyone else on my team is pajeet except for one white guy, who is a tranny. If you ever wonder why the quality of FAGMAN software keeps getting worse, its because of teams like the one I'm on.