Ok, good point, most languages I know use “C-style sequential function-calling” paradigm. Is there a specific idea that you have for a language that would better utilize our CPUs?
Notation that treats asynchronous message-passing as fundamental rather than exceptional.
I’m pretty sure there exists at least one research paper about notation for the actor pattern.
You explain pretty well why you don’t think C is a good fit for hardware we have today, but that warrants a proposal for something better. Because I for sure don’t want to debug programs where everything is happening in parallel (as it does in pong).
Sorry but even if this was written by a human, ai has ruined this kind of sentences for me:
“This is Hardware Stockholm Syndrome: we optimized the hardware for C, then pointed at the hardware and said “see, C is efficient!” We forgot we made it that way.”
Also, so-many-dashes. Even if the “human author” fact checked all the details, it reads like slop and i cant get trough it.
You really gotta stop ruining things for yourself by caring so much about something so inconsequential.
I hate that people now associate dashes with ai as I used to really like using them (distinguishing between regular, en- and em-dashes, using them to make structure clearer over regular commas).
keep doing it but add some fitting humour and a typo here and therw - and nobody will think you’re ai
DON’T LET EM TAKE AWAY OUR DASHES
Same. I’ve actively avoided using them because LLMs ruined it.
Personally, I like the idea of being thought of as a computer, as it suits my personality.
Don’t get me wrong, i like using dashes too.
I actually have a contract to sign which requires an em dash that changes the interpretation drastically. I am struggling to get the author to realise its importance because i received 3 updated versions that did not include it. And this is after i replied with a self-fixed document the first time.
But this article really does use them a lot, and thats not the only tell, just a more obvious one.
I dont know how accurate zerogpt is but i gave it the full text and they returned 100% ai writen, not even a mix.
