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Oh my, what a throwback. Nicely done.
Oh my, what a throwback. Nicely done.
From the hovertext: “I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I’m leaving you.”
After years of a dozen other languages, I finally tried Perl the other day.
Never again, if I can help it.
Everyone at Mentor Graphics did before it got gobbled up by Siemens in 2017. I don’t know if they still do.
Nice work!
Without formal a formal education program, finding the right subset of a new skill or hobby is probably the best way to hook yourself in so it’s easier to keep at it long enough to really start learning. It sounds like concepts are finally sticking for you because you have an immediate and fun application for them.
I hope more people continue to find unconventional paths into the field like you did, keep going with it.
The ONCD said that software and hardware developers are best positioned to implement memory-safe languages
Very insightful. I thought plumbers would be the ones handling it.
It seems like the headline buries the lede here.
The problem is passwords being exposed in plain text. I already assume that my browser extensions can see everything I do, which is why I only use a couple of open source extensions with solid reputations.
I love this way of thinking about it.
I haven’t been interested in AI enough to try writing code with it, but using it as an interactive rubber ducky is a very compelling use case. I might give that a shot.