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Archive for October 3rd, 2018

Fred Hebert on Twitter : “honest programming books… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/03

[WayBack] Fred Hebert on Twitter : “honest programming books… “:

  • The CVE Programming Language; ANSI C; Second Edition
  • The Rust Programming Language; The C++ that Feels Like Haskell (this book cannot be borrowed)
  • Librertarian Programming; The Ideology Behind Heartbleed, by a Racist Misogynist Taken Seriously; Revised and Expanded; I don’t think the cops in that video hated anybody. They were just doing their job. And their job included strangling a man to death for having sold untaxed cigarettes.
  • The Go Fuck Yourself Language
  • Continuous Integration; Pushing Retry Until Flaky Test Pass and the Build Succeeds

More images at [WayBack] Thread by @mononcqc: “honest programming books more honest books (including my own) […]”.

  • Please Use my Language; A Beginner’s Guide

  • Again: Please Use my Language

–jeroen

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On my list to try (about half a year since it appeared): A new mutlti-threading library for Delphi. (darkThreading) – Chapman World

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/03

With fresh libraries – like new Delphi and Windows versions – I usually take a pause to see if any major updates have been published to stabalise things.

So about half a year after the release of A new mutlti-threading library for Delphi. (darkThreading) – Chapman World [WayBack], this is a reminder for me to try it.

With the Task Parallel Library still not being up to par, I wonder how DarkThreading compares to the very stable [WayBack] GitHub – gabr42/OmniThreadLibrary: A simple and powerful multithreading library for Delphi.

The source is at [WayBack] GitHub – chapmanworld/darkThreading: Platform agnostic light-locking threading library for Delphi (part of the DarkGlass project).

Note that by now it has moved to [WayBack] DarkGlass/darkLibs/darkThreading at master · chapmanworld/DarkGlass · GitHub (thanks Stefan Glienke for figuring that out)

One comment already: the [WayBack] darkThreading/Building.md at master · chapmanworld/darkThreading · GitHub describes dependencies on the below libraries, but does not use git modules (see [WayBack] Git – git-submodule Documentation) to reference to known stable commits of them:

In the man time, Edwin Yip has reviewed it: [WayBack] Simple Comparison of OmniThreadLibrary and darkThreading (http://chapmanworld.com/2018/05/24/a-new-mutlti-threading-library-for-delphi-darkthreading/) … – Edwin Yip – Google+ after in may he indicated he would look into it at a later stage [WayBack] http://chapmanworld.com/2018/05/24/a-new-mutlti-threading-library-for-delphi-…

–jeroen

Via [WayBack] Craig Chapman on Twitter: “My threading library for Delphi (darkThreading) https://t.co/Jo7nVGzsNY”

 

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Just curious, Is there ever a benefit to not providing a GUID in an interface…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/03

An interesting question [WayBack] Just curious,Is there ever a benefit to not providing a GUID in an interface? – Johan Bontes – Google+

The answer is simple: The benefits are almost none and you loose compiler assisted casting ease.

The interesting bits are the discussion where even Embarcadero isn’t sure what kind of magic the compiler does on generic interfaces.

–jeroen

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