As it is not a perfect world, sometimes you will be faced with data that is unstructured and there is no existing library that does everything for you. No JSON, no bencode. The UNIX uitilities have the flexibility to…
No, it doesn't help you write faster because as you say you have to think. But it helps you read faster. Also, a tiny program that does not require lots of lines can fit in a chip's cache, and stay there. Can't say the…
I once read an intro to Icon written by its creator back in the 1990's. It gave a short example program to create an "index" (which lines each word appears in) from block of text, and then at the end he added some…
As it is not a perfect world, sometimes you will be faced with data that is unstructured and there is no existing library that does everything for you. No JSON, no bencode. The UNIX uitilities have the flexibility to…
No, it doesn't help you write faster because as you say you have to think. But it helps you read faster. Also, a tiny program that does not require lots of lines can fit in a chip's cache, and stay there. Can't say the…
I once read an intro to Icon written by its creator back in the 1990's. It gave a short example program to create an "index" (which lines each word appears in) from block of text, and then at the end he added some…