https://youtu.be/bdfNvYPxkOY. And https://www.felienne.com in general, at least where spreadsheets are concerned. Two monitors - one for Excel, one for the VBE - is not Smalltalk, but it is productive. At least for n=1, since the '90s.
Thanks for reminding me to check if the REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE, and REGEXTEST functions had landed for me yet. They have! Good, because sometime in 2027 the library providing RegEx in VBA will be yanked. https://youtu.be/pGH9LdgkJio
MS Office Tools menu has a "Spreadsheet Compare" application. It is quite good for diffing 2 spreadsheets. Of course it cannot catch logic errors, human or ML.
There is a lot to be learned from reading historical CS texts. It helps us see how developers worked under constraint of historical hardware and it also helps us find commonalities to modern problems. There is a lot to be said about software engineering challenges that are a problem today and a problem decades ago. This creates a clearer picture of blind spots in the industry and reading outdated texts can be a fruitful endeavor despite seeming counterintuitive. I have a small collection of CS books that I have purchased from a used bookstore and I always walk away with new insights when I read them even if the information is outdated.
Thank you for your tone. I agree! Had Starting Forth, Thinking Forth, and Elizabeth D Rather books at one time. Reread TCL the Misunderstood (Antirez), every few years for the memoizing bit. Etc.
To the critics of parent, the reason we add dates and people make such posts is so HN users can know if it is something they read or something new or just something new to them. So when OP forgets the date, we make a post with the date so OP or the mods can edit the title.
I will read it, closely, but was all hopped-up expecting some new implementation, as I am down the Smalltalk rabbit hole lately, including watching lots of old videos. And perusing https://selflanguage.org
It's the convention on HN to add the year of an article at the end of a title in parens. Users often cue us to do this by posting the year in the comments. They aren't being dismissive—it's just an obscure little custom!
Out of my depth here, but I do have 5 Prolog books I can't seem to let go of. I used to dabble. A lot. Out of all my numerous prog-lang infatuations, only 3 have stuck: Erlang, Prolog and Picolisp. At most, 2 degrees of separation between those 3. No one mentioned Picolisp yet, so I have to, because it has a Prolog embedded in it. This seems like an appropriate place to do it.
