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And it's really not the same thing because ids are not position. With this type of structure a field without value will be a missing row in a table. Moreover, from the moment each column is isolated in its own table with a second key column, it becomes essential not to store NULL values because the amount of data doubles for each value, since a primary key is required for each column. It's a 6NF model. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_normal_form>

That he would not have been able to do what he hoped to do to meet other demands of his creditors. Pure speculation.

You can watch https://www.red-by-example.org/

But no one has bothered to write a complete manual like Carl did for Rebol, and the language is a partial implementation in Rebol which has a hybrid Rebol/Red syntax that must ultimately be bootstrapped in Red. In short, you have the scaffolding around it and if you are not a total fan or a dev of the project it is not even worth it.

For me, it even went off the rails before, when Nenad went to China because he was able to raise funds for the project. But he hadn't anticipated that he would be in charge and not the other way around. The situation seems to suit him perfectly. I don't think Red has any future at this point. In any case, the roadmap has always been stratospheric.

On Bloat 1 year ago

Does the quality of the paint and canvas prevent a poor painter from applying 30 coats? No, and it's probably the same with programming languages. Adding a low wall in the driveway won't change anything.

PHP 8.4 2 years ago

Yes, the presentation of the documentation is very good. This is something I miss when I have to switch to other languages.

I also use it to write CLI scripts to exchange data between programs. The wealth of extensions and good UTF-8 support are a plus.

PHP 8.4 2 years ago

IMHO the HTML5 parser is the best improvement of this version.

What I find most disappointing about most editors is the lack of dockable textareas to enter search and replace with regexps on single/multiple files. And the lack of a dockable panel with clickable links to jump to search results. Almost all of them use an infamous dialog box, or single-line text fields, or only jump to the next result: what a handicap.

Yet, manipulating text effectively is the most important operation. Incomprehensible.

EditPad does it and it's absolutely brilliant, but it's only usable on Windows. E

Search/Replace feature is really dockable, fast, powerful and well done in this editor. Creating/modifying syntax highlighting is easy and you can share them. Encoding detection and support is very good. Adding tools you call from it or where you pipe content is a brease. Definitely my favorite editor.

Triangle Grids 4 years ago

Hello, what you could say about rotation is interesting me. I'm writing a 2D board game with a tri-grid for fun. For the moment I have only done the grid, the change of scale.

I don't think they'd necessarily become OOP programmers if fp was the default, but i do think we would see a similar trend of fp becoming a distasteful term.

Inevitable! You only have to see how the abuse of GOTO has traumatized memories with very dogmatic contrary reactions. While used well there is no harm.

because that's basically all there was for many companies building many things under burnout schedules with no one with more than 5 years of experience working on them.

Not only. There are people who will never learn even after 15 years of career. It doesn't interest them or they don't have strong enough fundamentals and will never catch up.