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<glowcoil>
alexgord_: hi
<glowcoil>
alexgord_: listening to craig taborn
<glowcoil>
alexgord_: he's way good
<alexgord_>
glowcoil: give up!
<alexgord_>
:P
<glowcoil>
give up on what?
<glowcoil>
:p
<alexgord_>
glowcoil: music in general
<alexgord_>
go back to haskell
<alexgord_>
;)
<alexgord_>
wow new iplayer is great
<glowcoil>
alexgord_: lolol
<purr>
lolol
<glowcoil>
alexgord_: music makes me way happier than haskell ever did :p
<glowcoil>
but yeah i think as ranked among all the people in the world who do music vs who do haskell
<glowcoil>
i ranked a lot higher at haskell
<glowcoil>
:(
<alexgord_>
glowcoil yeah like #5
<alexgord_>
glowcoil: ...of 8
<alexgord_>
xD
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<glowcoil>
alexgord_: lolol
<purr>
lolol
<glowcoil>
but yeah i'm like in the millions for music :c
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: if you make your own programming language, you'll be the best at it
<alexgordon>
or second best if fabrice bellard decides to use it
<glowcoil>
lolol i'll be far from the best at PLT, although I actively want to avoid being the best at PLT because it's the wankiest field on earth
<purr>
lolol
<alexgordon>
"wankiest", is that a word?
<glowcoil>
yeah
<glowcoil>
absolutely
<glowcoil>
also lol @ fabrice bellard
<glowcoil>
also i didn't get what you were saying but now i do
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: my hope is that generic research advances enough that both DJB and Fabrice Bellard can have a child together :P
<alexgordon>
this child will be the Chosen One
<alexgordon>
who will lead computer programmers to the Enlightenment
<glowcoil>
what did djb do
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: he wrote a piece of software without bugs
<glowcoil>
lol which one
<purr>
lol
<alexgordon>
qmail
<alexgordon>
ok well it had 1 maybe 2 bugs
<alexgordon>
but he inserted them intentionally to fool us into thinking he's mortal
<glowcoil>
lolol
<purr>
lolol
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: IIRC he dismissed the C standard library claiming it's too dangerous, and instead made his own
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<alexgordon>
"I've mostly given up on the standard C library. Many of its facilities, particularly stdio, seem designed to encourage bugs. A big chunk of qmail is stolen from a basic C library that I've been developing for several years for a variety of applications. The stralloc concept and getln() make it very easy to avoid buffer overruns, memory leaks, and artificial line length limits."
<glowcoil>
alexgordon: haha wow
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: also...
<glowcoil>
alexgordon: also?
<alexgordon>
hm can't find it
<alexgordon>
glowcoil: somewhere he says that if he writes a function, if he can't find a way to prove it's correct, he'll throw it away and start again