> Coming from Europe I'm used to see that every vineyard makes their own wine.
This isn’t strictly true. Europe has négociants, who buy grapes from smaller growers to make wine from (to be fair, often alongside their own vineyard holdings).
> But then again, who cares for American wine (certainly not the Euros).
Huge fan of Old World wine here. With that said, the Americans are producing remarkable wines these days. For my palate, I enjoy Sonoma and Willamette Valley. Even tasted blind, top critics have preferred California to France — look up the Judgment of Paris!
I second this. Wilma's eye passed over us, which was my first time ever experiencing the eye wall of a hurricane. I vividly remember watching our house's patio enclosure get destroyed from my parents' bedroom.
I wouldn't stick around for this one if I were still in Florida.
I haven't actually found LLRBs to be simpler to implement, and a couple other sources agree with me. They're pedagogically simpler than standard RB trees, but if your goal is to introduce students to a balanced binary tree, I'd argue that AVLs are easier to teach and implement than either RBs or LLRBs.
You know, I've had people assume I was an inferior software developer solely because I was in a social fraternity and therefore must not have spent any time studying for my exams or working on my problem sets. That's not really a nice prior to have about an individual, sort of how it would be considered quite offensive to assume that a woman were an inferior software developer due to her gender.
Additionally, I'm not going to pretend that Greek life is 100% free of douchebaggery. Some people in fraternities do bad things to other people, or harbor bigoted worldviews. I feel that you grossly overestimate the proportion of people who do. To address the racial and sexual homogeneity point, I'm fairly confident that every single fraternity at my alma mater had individuals of color and homosexual individuals. My own certainly did.
I'd also like to point out the obvious blanket statements you've made about the demographics and attitudes of fraternity members. However, I really don't think anyone or anything can budge your opinion.
Is this satire? If not, would you be amenable to posting a list of all the organizations you've been associated with in the past, so we can all make assumptions about your ethics, behavior, and attitudes towards race, religion, and sex - based on statistically significant percentages of those organizations, of course?
Not the original comment author, but I thoroughly enjoyed taking Penn's undergraduate compilers course, which used OCaml to compile a basic OO language with single inheritance and dynamic dispatch. http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis341
In my experience, #4 has held up extremely well over time and is the most compelling reason for choosing an ML over another language. Algebraic data types are an absolute joy to work with when dealing with abstract syntax trees. The other points are obviously great to have, but strong language support for ADTs is key, in my opinion.
I'm not certain I agree with #3. It seems to defeat the purpose of a strong type system. Either way, it can be very nice to express meta-level constructs in a matching object-level type. For example, if the language you are writing a compiler for has an int32 datatype, but you use an int64 in the language you're writing the compiler in, you'll need to simulate overflow. It would just be easier and safer to use an int32 in both places.
These days, I'd recommend Menhir over ocamlyacc unless you have a very specific use case that the former breaks on but the latter works on.
> In my experience, #4 has held up extremely well over time and is the most compelling reason for choosing an ML over another language.
I have a hard time choosing between ADTs and the module system, honestly. If I really had to chose, I'd probably pick ADTs, but it'd be very close. It's really disappointing every time a new language comes out and it has a weak module system. Especially F#, which was primarily influenced by OCaml.
A thousand times this; I've been working on compiler-y things in C++ for the past couple years, and I am firmly convinced that the visitor pattern is a truly inadequate way to attempt to compensate for the lack of a proper destructuring pattern-matching construct in a language.
They also raised $605.49 in 2014. Total funding to date is $1.8B over 17 rounds. At a $20B valuation this puts them at about 11:1 valuation over funding, which is informative about their investors guess into their growth prospects.
Does anyone else have the following issue with the footnote hotlinking on this blog post? When I click the "return" icon on a footnote to jump to the point in the text where the footnote is, I end up several lines below where I should. The sentence with the footnote is concealed by the black WaPo header bar.
I can replicate this behavior in Chrome on Ubuntu, Chrome on El Capitan, and Safari on El Capitan.
This isn’t strictly true. Europe has négociants, who buy grapes from smaller growers to make wine from (to be fair, often alongside their own vineyard holdings).
> But then again, who cares for American wine (certainly not the Euros).
Huge fan of Old World wine here. With that said, the Americans are producing remarkable wines these days. For my palate, I enjoy Sonoma and Willamette Valley. Even tasted blind, top critics have preferred California to France — look up the Judgment of Paris!