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It is pedantic. Saying that people should say CPC instead of CCP adds nothing to the conversation. If it grinds your gears then maybe starting with organizations like the Encyclopedia Britannica[0] rather than random Hacker News commenters might prove more effective.
[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Communist-Party
Prolog is a very practical language for particular tasks. Languages are tools that fill different niches.
Besides, people do stay with Prolog. The language has been going strong for many decades. New Prolog projects pop up often. This can't be said for many other unusual languages, which perished in academic obscurity.
Sarcasm?
A language is a set of sentences.
A sentence is a finite sequence of symbols drawn from an alphabet.
In this sense, mathematical operation tables are absolutely a language. As are natural languages.
Here we ask whether, in a task where gestures are particularly useful—namely, spontaneous demonstration in which no real object is present—speakers of a high-gesture (Italian) and a low-gesture (Dutch) culture show similarities or differences in how they teach to adults versus children.
I don't have an ad blocker on my laptop. The ads I get are pretty much entirely generic and irrelevant to me, I don't remember ever consciously clicking on an ad.
That human would be turning down a potential Fields Medal for this discovery.
While interesting, this result is not Fields Medal material.
The end result is the same: an SVG file. Definitely doesn't matter to an LLM what produced it.
Second place is small?
I think the parent comment is wondering if it was originally drafted in English and then translated to Latin.
This is a lot of very confident assertions.
you do decide to actively go against it for decades because you like doing things your way
Perhaps there's a good reason why a developer or a group of developers decide to do things a certain way.
This is why Krita is sweeping the floor with gimp
Aside from the fact that these programs are intended for pretty different things, the impression I have is that GIMP has a much larger install-base than Krita and more people are aware of it. Far from "sweeping the floor".
GNOME is hanging on by nature of being the default
Or perhaps some people (and enterprises) want a polished OOTB desktop experience without having to deal with KDE's bugs and Windows-like design language. There are plenty of GNOME installs on Arch Linux for example, where you can't speak of any "defaults" with regards to desktop environments.[0]
[0] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun/Desktop%20Environments/cur...
I don't understand this response. Human artists can and do make SVGs.
My day job is not in the tech industry. I am an editor. Literally nothing has changed for me in the last four years.
Prolog is an elegant abstraction. One of the points of abstractions is that they let us concentrate our optimization efforts in one place. Prolog benefits from many decades of research into how to make it work fast. When your problem does require a Prolog-shaped solution the most sensible thing to do is to use a highly optimized Prolog system instead of reinventing a naive algorithm yourself. Your "inelegant" solution will not be faster.
(This is also the problem with "I'll just quickly implement a Prolog-like DSL when I need it". Sometimes not a bad idea, but you have to be realistic. Your "lightweight" Prolog will be worse in every way compared to serious Prolog implementations).
Richard O'Keefe in The Craft of Prolog: "Elegance is not optional".
Erlang has very little in common with Prolog, which is a language in an entirely different paradigm (logic programming).
Early versions of Erlang were implemented in Prolog, which is why Erlang's syntax looks a whole lot like Prolog's, but beyond that they're not very similar.
It's not clear to me what you mean, can you elaborate?
... I mean, yes? People object to AI art (and generative AI in general) on ethical grounds, not just aesthetic ones. This is something anti-AI people are quite explicit about.
Is you actually look at the Lisp ecosystem as it exists today (even just Emacs by itself) you'll quickly realize that none of this is true in practice. Other people have pointed this out.[0]
[0] https://applied-langua.ge/posts/lisp-curse-redemption-arc.ht...
They don't offer APIs precisely so that you can't integrate several sources in one app.
He is loud and wrote some useful books.
I don't know what they teach in Russian schools, but even American ones are full of propaganda and bad history.
And, of course, no one in Russia is trying to deny the contribution of the First Bulgarian Empire to the creation of the Slavic alphabet, since that would contradict historical facts.
This doesn't follow. People deny historical fact all the time.
I guess I don't see this idea around because it wasn't good enough to survive the early 1950s? I am looking at the tables, and while I can see the resemblance in some places, it's quite a significant stretch in others. The fact that the Glagolitic and Greek examples are cherry-picked from different manuscripts with different styles doesn't help.
To be fair, the parent post was clearly talking about Slavic languages, not "all the languages USSR forced cyrillic alphabet on", which were not Slavic and which required significant modifications to the alphabet.
"Slav" deriving from the Slavic term for "word" is something of a false etymology that was invented in the 19th century. It is implausible on philological grounds: you'd expect a different vowel in this word if this were the case, and the suffix *-ninъ is only otherwise used in terms derived from place names.
It is more likely[0] that the term derives from some toponym. This is in line with how tribal names tend to work in Europe and is not problematic in terms of historical linguistics, however it gives less fuel to romantic nationalism and armchair speculations about national "identities" or "mindsets".
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[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/s...
This is a novel claim to me. I don't think Glagolitic looks particularly like cursive Greek, and I haven't seen this idea in scholarship. What is your source for it?
Oddly, the article doesn't mention the most interesting part. Most scholars believe that Cyril and Methodius did not design Cyrillic, but instead something called Glagolitic.[0]
Glagolitic very quickly got pushed out by what were essentially Greek letters. If you look at Bulgarian and Byzantine manuscripts from the time, they are almost impossible to tell apart, unless you know the languages.
The reason for that is pretty obvious if you look at the Glagolitic letters themselves: they are horrible UX. You need a lot more strokes than for something like Greek or Latin to record the same information. Because Glagolitic was contrived and not polished with use over the centuries, there was very little reason to use it over Greek.
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