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Bbrk24

23:10

One day, someone's going to accidentally comment something about objective scoring criteria

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Q: Are quesitons about community building on topic?

I thought this question had already come up in Area51 but I cannot see it here so I am duplicating it. Are questions about how to build and manage a programming language community on-topic here or should they be redirected to, for example, community building? On the one hand programming languages...

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Q: How to Add Static Typing to a Stack Language?

What level of static typing can be added to a stack-based language? I know it's impossible to fully statically type a stack language: "string" 399 1 io.inputAsInt range loop swap end-loop # can't determine what'll be on the top of the stack until runtime But is there some level of static typing ...

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Bbrk24

I got the longest site names by running

Array.prototype.map.call(document.querySelectorAll('.gv-item h2'), el => el.innerText).sort((a, b) => [...b].length - [...a].length)

in the console at stackexchange.com/sites

PLDI is the new longest by ten letters

The current one is already long enough it doesn't fit in the box on that page

lyxal

23:30

Oh my first repcap!

Rydwolf Programs

@Bbrk24 github.com/Radvylf/userscripts/blob/main/…

Bbrk24

thanks

So does it just automatically check in all tabs I have an SE site open in, or...?

Rydwolf Programs

No, you'll need to open the review page and pin it

languagedesign.stackexchange.com/review

In the future I'm planning on changing that, but it was originally designed for just CGCC so it wasn't necessary back then

Oh, forgot that when you hit vote limit you lose access to FA and LA

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Q: Are questions about specific languages on-topic?

Would a question about a specific feature of specific programming languages be on-topic or would the scope be too specific? For example, asking about the implementation of a specific feature of, say, Python.

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lyxal

> generic review tool designed just for cgcc

The irony :p

(and yes I get the semantics of it, I'm just pointing out the textual irony)

lyxal

23:48

That question on what should be allowed in identifiers names got me thinking about what a language where almost every character can be in an identifier would be like.

The only disallowed characters would be whitespace, () and ,

Everything would be a function - even variable assignment